[Steven Zahm]

@ Nevin

The text domain is connections. To change the cell phone string, the original string is Cell Phone. To change the home fax, the original string is Home Fax.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Brian

re: I want to be able to manuallly validate the entries before they appear either in the members or in the directory page. Is it possible?

Yes, you will need the Form extension.

re: I want to be able to add new fields if needed. Is it possible?

This is possible, but requires a developer to do so because there is no point and click method to add new custom fields at this time.

Hope that thoroughly answers your questions!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Brian

re: a “members” page, where all the members of the directory will be displayed (a small excerpt of the file, and then you click on the excerpt and go to the member profile)

You would want one of the following templates, Circled, Excerpt Plus or Gridder.

Choose the one you like best. There is a demo for each and examples of their use on live third party sites.

re: a “directory” page, where will only appear some members. That’s why I need some kind of field “display/don’t display” in the admin, and depending on this field, the member will be displayed on this directory page or not.
Also, members that are “not displayed” can’t appear as results of the user when he wants to search something in the directory.

You can use categories to partition the entries into multiple directories many, many, users do this. The simplest implementation to do this would be like this:

• Create two categories. One named Members the other named Directory.
• Create two pages. One for members and the other for the directory.
• You would then use the category shortcode option on each of those pages, limiting each to their related category.
• When you add entries, you can then choose to list them only as a member or as in the directory or both by selecting the appropriate categories.

You can test this out now without many any purchases because this is a builtin feature.

Hope this helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Nevin

Oh, well, I see… the default entry card template does not support shortcodes that is why they have no effect when you view the single entry. The only way to change those strings in the default entry card template is to use the Say What? plugin. Here’s a link to a QuickTip that explains how to use it.

As for the Google Map on the single entry, the default entry card template does not support this either. If you need that, then you need to use the Tile Plus template to be used on the single entry view which means you would have to disable the the Single Entry template option.

The Tile Plus template is going to be updated next week to use the new Template Customizer… this should make it far easier to configure the way you want it to be setup because all the settings will be done with an interactive point and click interface rather than having to use complex shortcodes. If you are running Connections 8.4 or newer you can check this out now as the default entry card template already supports the Template Customizer.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Michael

No problem! Hope you can see how how the individual entry can be configured separately from the entry list. It makes what you can do pretty versatile.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Matt

re: Any recommendations for which template would work best for using this plugin to showcase our stand-up comedians performing at our festival?

Well, my suggestion would be to take a look at all the premium templates and choose the one you like best.

http://connections-pro.com/templates/

All template have demos for you to view as well as example of them being used on live third party sites.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Matt

re: How do I get the entries to show up on my directory page in the order I choose?

Great to hear you figures it out!

re: I can’t figure out now is how to have some of the bio show up on the directory page with “Read More”

Not all templates do this. Which one are your using?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Nevin

Did you do the suggestion in my last reply? Can you please double check it if you did?

[Steven Zahm]

@ MV Times

re: (in this world of elegant APIs

Ahhh… that’s the issue… there is no WordPress search API so there is no way to hook into to provide custom search results.

[Steven Zahm]

@ John

Thanks!

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