[Steven Zahm]

@ andisites

Apologies for the late reply… I open the tab to do the reply but never finished it. It’s no excuse but that is what happened. Sorry!

Basically what you asking for is called a chained select. This is possible but would need to be custom developed for you. If you are interested I do provide custom developed solutions. Please contact me using the Contact link at the bottom of the page (all the way at the bottom, last link on the right) and I can provide you with a quote and timing.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Jim

Great to hear and thanks!

If you have a moment, I would truly appreciate a review as they really do make a difference. Many thanks in advance!

https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/connections

[Steven Zahm]

@ Dwight

Both the Connections update and CSV Import updates have been released.

I still have not been able to create the duplicate categories. Granted, I have not tried the a second import where I’m updating an entry from your CSV file… but that would not matter since it is literally the exact same code that processes categories regardless add or updating an entry. And that code is basically this… check if category exists, if not add it, and then link entry to all defined categories. A dozen or so lines of code.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Jim

Yes, this is doable too. See this reply on how to do that.

http://connections-pro.com/support/topic/default-settings/#post-332713

You could combine this with the CSS I gave you to hide the options… if you remove all but the one choice, it’ll automatically default to the choice that is left.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ michael

re: Is this something we can do with Connections?

Yes, others have done this. They created their own maps with clickable regions that “deep link” to the correct regions. Here’s a Google search that has many, man results on how to create a clickable map:

https://www.google.com/search?q=create+clickable+map+regions

The links you would assign to the clickable regions would be something like this:

domain.com/directory/?cn-region=Arizona

This would return results of all entries where Arizona was entered into the State field.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Doug

Custom fields would be ideal for this. I do provide custom development services. Feel free to contact me using the Contact link at the bottom of the page. (scroll all the way to the bottom, last link on the right)

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Jim

Here’s a bit of CSS to hide the address and phone type/preferred/visibility options:

#cn-form .widget.address .widget-top,
#cn-form .widget.phone .widget-top {
    display: none;
}

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Mike

Yep, probably not the best for SEO, especially if your static text is greater than the unique text. Because Connections outputs via a shortcode, there is no way to remove the static contents of the page due to the order in which WordPress parses the page. The only option I would have is to pre-parse the page and remove all content except for the shortcode and then let WordPress parse the page like normal.

All that said… this can be worked around. Here’s how…

Create a new page. The name of the page is not relevant but should applicable, you know for good SEO permalinks :).

The content of this new page should be the [connections] shortcode and nothing else.

Save the page and take note of the page ID, You’ll need it. You can find it in the browser address bar as part of the URL.

Go to your original directory page and add the home_id shortcode option. You shortcode on the page should look something like this:

[connections home_id="n"]

Save the page.

No when the links in the directory are clicked, they will resolve to the new page.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Elaine

You need at least the Link extension and optionally the Form extension.

Hope that helps! Let me know if you have any other questions.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Peter

You need both the Link extension and the Form extension. Link provide the ability to link a WP user to a Connections entry. Form provides the frontend editing support.

Hope that helps!

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