[Steven Zahm]

re: Magnus

See this FAQ.

All the string that can be translated bu the shortcode in Slim are as follows and be found here:
http://connections-pro.com/documentation/template-doc/slim-shortcode-options/

str_image='No Photo Available'
str_bio_head='Biography'
str_note_head='Notes'
str_contact='Contact'
str_home_addr='Home'
str_work_addr='Work'
str_school_addr='School'
str_other_addr='Other'
str_home_phone='Home Phone'
str_home_fax='Home Fax'
str_cell_phone='Cell Phone'
str_work_phone='Work Phone'
str_work_fax='Work Fax'
str_personal_email='Personal'
str_work_email='Work'

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Roger

Yes, you can use either a permalink or a query var.

/?cn-cat={id}

id is the category ID number found on the Connections : Manage admin page.

/cat/{slug}/

slug is the category slug number found on the Connections : Manage admin page.

The cat permalink slug can be changed on the Connections : Settings page under the Advanced tab.

Do not add the brackets.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Heather

Ok… after quite a bit of looking … the best I can determine is something is removing the Connections query vars before the shortcode which uses them is run.

One thing I noticed early on…

I did notice a rather bad error “Medical Practice Opportunities” custom post type that was setup using the Post Types plugin. The Custom Rewrite Slug defaults to the Custom Post Type Name. Currently it is setup as Medical Practice Opportunities. The Custom Rewrite Slug value has the same restrictions as Custom Post Type Name which is “The post type name. Used to retrieve custom post type content. Must be all in lower-case and without any spaces.” You should fix that. I suggest medical_practice_opportunities.

Unfortunately fixing that will not solve this problem.

After some really deep digging what I found is something (plugin or theme) is breaking a core WordPress function; get_query_var(). When called it always seems to return NULL. This is bad because it’ll break plugins that rely on that function like Connections does. It is a function used by a lot of plugins so this could be breaking other things for you and you not even know it.

I installed the Code Snippet plugin and added a work around to get the character filtering working again, but this will not fix any other instance in Connections where get_query_var() is used. For example the pagination in Connections/cMap. I was able to apply a partial fix but it still does not work the way it should. You can only navigate to the pages shown in the control.

With that said, it was not an update to cMap which broke it. It was likely an update to another plugin or theme which broke this function and it went unnoticed until cMap was updated.

I’m stumped as how the get_query_var() could possibly be broken … if you give me FTP access, I’d like to download both the plugins folder and the theme’s folder and run a few searches on those files to see if I can find the culprit.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Raymond

Oh, I understand… I’ll add this to my feature request lists.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Luci

The issue is that you put the directory on multiple pages. That’s fine, you can do that, but you need to exclude the other categories that exists on the other pages or disable the category drop down. After you do that, those other links will disappear slowing as Google crawls your site and updates its index.

Hope that helps.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Koen

There was a recent update to Slim Plus, can you plus update it to version 2.0.1. It primarily contains CSS tweaks.

Also, you seem to have two completely blank entries, not sure if you want them there on purpose or not, but you probably should delete those.

After you update the template, let me know if that fixes the issue or not.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Heather

re: doesn’t sort alphabetically
I would need a temp admin account so I can investigate it further.

re: Also, is it possible to change the text mouseover color of the Physicians name?
That would actually be set by the theme… the following CSS would override the theme:

#cn-cmap h3 a:hover {
  color: blue;
}

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Raymond

I can not remember which template you’re using… but adding enable_map='false' to the shortcode will disable the map but it’ll also deactivate the map in the results list too (if the template shows one).

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Aaron

If you’re using the category widget in the Widget Pack you should disable the category drop down in Tile Plus. They use separate methods to query which category to display which are incompatible and would likely be confusing to your users. The category widgets uses permalinks to goes to a specific category page while the drop down in the template will do a query to filter the results by the selected category. I do have plans on implementing logic where if a category permalink is used, it’ll override and set the category filter. This will provide a more seamless experience.

However, with that said… there does seem to be a bug that I’ve confirmed just now. What is happening is every category in the drop down is being marked as the selected category which would result in the last category in the list being shown as the selected category. What should occur, presently, is the category drop down should be unaffected by the permalinks. I’ll track down the issue and get that fixed for the next release due out soon.

Apologies for the trouble!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Sam

I do plan on putting up more QuickTips in order to expose more of the advanced knowledge that burried in the forums.

I have looked at Wiki plugins for WordPress … most were underwhelming the last time I looked. If you know of decent one, I’ll definitely take a look.

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