[Steven Zahm]

re: Alex

Disable the private override and public override options … they’ll override the login required. Additionally, exclude this page from WP Super Cache.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Sam You want to use: 'slug' => $category->slug, This should work, but it will not add the ancestor category slugs to the permalink. As an example, consider this category struct:

• Parent
• • Child
  • • Grandchild

The struct should be /parent/child/grandchild/

This code will only get you, /grandchild/ Like I said, it should work since Connections only queries the category at the end of the struct but technically the permalink will be incorrect. Hope that makes sense.

[Steven Zahm]

re: Alex

That message will only be displayed when the Require registered users to login before showing the directory. option is enabled. Both of these option are in the Require Login login settings section.

Hope that helps.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Alex

Yes, add it to the theme’s custom CSS area … this means the WordPress theme that you are using not the Connections template.

Hope that clears that up for you. Let me know.

[Steven Zahm]

@ chris429

oh, oh, oh … wait… The exclude_category and show_empty_categories will have no effect when only the category drop down and search are displayed because those are template options. This code snippet basically hijacks the process to display just the category drop down and search box until a search is performed, then the actual template is used. After you do a search the Uncategorized category is not present, correct?

Not sure if this will work … but try adding this to the shortcode:
exclude='1' show_empty='0'

[Steven Zahm]

@ jaime

Path looks right. I downloaded your PO file and compiled the MO file with Poedit and uploaded and then changed WP to be in Spanish and it worked fine … which version of Link do you have installed? Only 2.0 and newer are fully translation ready, the 1.x series didn’t have the code to load the actual translation even though the string were translation ready.

[Steven Zahm]

@ chris429

It appears you may have fancy quotes used in your shortcode. WordPress does not support the usage of fancy quotes in shortcode. If they are there there were likely introduced by copy/pasting from a web page into the Visual post edit. If this is the issue… do this.

Edit the page where you inserted the [connections] shortcode and its options. Switch the editor to the text tab. Now, delete all quotes and retype them. Additionally if there are any HTML tags in or around the shortcode, remove them too as they will also break the WordPress shortcode parser.

Let me know if that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Alex

The CSV file is malformed. There is a column where there is a valid value a some of the rows but with no column header, its blank. Also, there a dozen of so blank columns at the end of each row. These issues seem to mess up the parser. Fixing these issues, the file imports fine in both Connections 8.1.7 and the upcoming 8.2 version. If you are using Excel to create the CSV file, I suggest using LibreOffice as Excel can create some nasty CSV files.

Not sure why this would cause duplicate category creation … my best guess is that the empty columns were somehow being appended creating a “unique” name which when checked for did not exist so a new one would be created.

Probably the quickest way to cleanup is to go to the Categories admin page click the select all checkbox and then uncheck the categories to keep and then bulk delete the “duplicates”.

[Steven Zahm]

@ cheryl

Hmmm.. don’t see how it could affect those two pages. I’ll need a temp admin account so I can take a look. The login details can be sent using the contact link at the bottom of the page. PLease paste a link to this forum thread in the message so I can relate the two. Thanks.

[Steven Zahm]

@ cheryl

Well, Connections does not conflict with itself/extensions/templates … not sure if that is what you’re saying. I run them all on this site as well as my dev site.

The fact that you’re having trouble working with menus indicate the issue is not being cause by Connections. I say this because now scripts or anything interacts with that admin page. Obviously there are widgets if you have the Widget Pack installed, but it does not load any scripts or anything on that page (version 2.0 will, when released). That too indicates something else is a miss.

But… have you tried deactivating all Connections plugins to see if the issue goes away or not? If you have not, that would be the first thing to try.

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