[Steven Zahm]

@ Robin

To a small extent yes. Entire field sets can be disabled. Here’s a link to a screenshot of the settings page, I think you might find it helpful. To answer your question, yes, you can disable the messenger ID fieldset.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Zachary

In release 8.1, the exclude_category was fixed. It will now exclude any entries assigned to the listed categories rather than simply excluding the category. My best guess is that you’re entries are assigned the the excluded categories? Can you confirm?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Rick

Thanks for confirming … I do see you did mention it did work fine. I apologize, I forgot.

I’m pretty sure I know exactly what the issue is and will include a fix in 8.1.6 which is due out this month.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Deanna

First, on production site is is best practices to always suppress PHP errors and notices. If you log them instead, you need to make sure they are save in a file not accessible from the web.

Now with that said …

The CN_Authored error, You must have the Authored extension installed. The error does not make sense because it does indeed have a method named relatedAuthorPosts().

If you made changes to the extension, I suggest reinstalling it. Maybe reinstalling it maybe best any way.

The PHP notices on the second screenshot. I am aware and have already fix them. Those fixes will be included in the next update of Connections and Circled.

Thanks for letting me know about them!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Zachary

Connections no longer uses TimThumb, so no more issues with the doc root path. If the images show in the admin the new system is working just fine for you as it should because it is based on and uses all core WordPress functions.

I see you’re using Tile Plus … what is the exact shortcode you are using?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Rick

The first thing I see, since you have Form and Link, you should deactivate the “Submit New Entry” list action on the Connections : Settings admin page under the Display tab. This will allow users to submit entries that are not linked to their account.

Oh, I think I see the issue … I bet if you change the role capability so the edit submission does not need to be moderated it’ll work fine, right? Can you confirm?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Kathy

Ok, now I’m confused … WordPress 4 is the latest, more specifically 4.0.1, which is what is installed on your site. What are you reverting back from??? WordPress 4.1 hasn’t been released yet.

If you give me a temp admin account, I’ll login in real quick to see if I can point you in a direction to get it working again.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Kathy

I would say updating the theme will not have an affect (at least extremely unlikely) on the visual editor being loaded or not in Connections.

Not knowing what changes were made to Connections … it could be one of the changes that were made or it could be simply another plugin breaking the visual editor and Connections is just a causality.

If you give me a temp admin account, I’ll login in real quick to see if I can point you in a direction to get it working again.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Ray

Because you’ve manually separated out the Connections entries on separate pages there’s really no way for the search widget to figure out which page it should directs the search. That’s why there’s the need for a results page.

As far as the no-index … don’t know, Connections has nothing to do with the no-index page meta tags and robots.txt file. It does not set or alter whatever is set to. It does not even look.

My guess is the site was indexable at one point. I would expect those to drop from the index at what ever time frame Google uses.

And looking at what is in the index, it appears that you did at one point have the category drop down. Google will following these “deep” links But since you’ve manually separated out the directory, you shouldn’t use the category drop down. Which, from my quick look, you are no longer using it.

Even with the category drop down not being used, I would still expect a large number in the index. Think about it for a second … you have many countries (21), in each on those pages you have a character index, so at the very minimum you have 21 countries x 26 in the index = 546. Then you have cities and towns and featured directories. So, it’ll add up, very quick.

Now, in theory, each of these should have different results from Connections (of course there’ll be some overlap) resulting in pages with unique content, so I do not see how it’ll negatively impact you in Google’s index. Sidenote, many of these pages are still empty (no results) … so, you’ll want to address that before going live.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Chris

I suspect the issue is you’re trying to show all 2015 entries on a single page. That’ll never work, you’ll exhaust all the memory allocated to PHP on the web server. The same thing would happen if you tried to list 2015 WordPress posts on the same page so it’s not a Connections issue. You’re going to need a template that support pagination, like cMap.

Hope that helps!

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