[Steven Zahm]

@ Markus

Are your talking about the Date Added and Last Modified dates? The formatting for those dates are hard coded and will not be affected by the settings. The date for birthdays and such should use the date format set in the settings.

Let me know to which dates you’re referring to, thanks!

[Steven Zahm]

I did take a look, something seems to be stripping or removing the query variables Connections requires to function. This will break a lot of plugins, not just Connections.

The first thing you need to try is deactivating all other plugins. If the issue resolves itself, then you know one of the plugins is breaking basic WordPress functionality.

If the issue persists, then it is likely the theme. Temporarily switch to one of the default themes like TwentyTwelve. If that fixes the issue, then it is the theme breaking WordPress.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Gretar

This seems to be a custom template that I wrote for you a few years ago … unfortunately it will not work with any recent Connections version released in the last year and a half or so.

To get it working again, I think that all that needs to be done is remove one line of code.

Open the template.php file found here:
../wp-content/connections_templates/icelandic/

Remove this line:
echo '<div class="cn-image-none" style="width: ' . $connections->options->getImgEntryX() . 'px ; height: ' . $connections->options->getImgEntryY() . 'px ;">No Photo Available</div>';

Save and upload overwriting the original. Make sure you backup the template first incase an error is made.

I suggest purchasing one of the from here. It looks like the Slim template will work for you just fine. The benefit of using one of these templates is that they’re frequently updated which obviously a custom template will not be.

I hope that helps! Let me know.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Kautuk

No, you do not want to set it up like that. That will allow your users to add unlimited number of entries none of which will be specifically linked to the user. You need the Link extension and optionally the Form extension.

Hope that helps, let me know.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Ben

Support license keys should have been created and for some reason they weren’t, my apologies for the trouble. I’ve created the keys and resent the email sales confirmation so you have them.

Yes, fees are yearly, only for the items you want to renew. If you do not renew, they will continue to function, but you’ll loose access to any updates I may release. You would get a renewal email notice but since there were no keys, you would not have gotten a renewal notice. You should now in the future.

Again, my apologies for the trouble!

[Steven Zahm]

@ bobbyau

Yeah, the issue is that the setup, each region is broken out on its own page. There’s no way for the widget to know which page each entry should link to. The “results” page is the only work around I can think of … I’m not sure how a redirect plugin would work, I’ve never tried it when “deep” links within Connections. You’ll have to let me know if that is a workable solution or not.

Something on the near horizon that may work for you…

I’m working on a major rewrite of the Widget Pack. I’ve attached a screenshot so you can view the new options that’ll be available. You’ll be able to limit and exclude the categories that should be shown in the widget. So what you could do is create region specific widgets … oh, wait, darn! The links would still resolve to the directory home page. I could add an option, since I’m still rewriting that allow you to choose to link to the directory home page or a custom page. That would solve the issue if you can deal with the fact that you would need multiple widgets.

Will that help?

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[Steven Zahm]

@ Volt

There’s not an automatic way to do this … you can use create custom links in your menu and link directly to a category in Connections. Here’s what a sample link would look like:

http://domain.com/directory-home-page/cat/category-slug/

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ bobbyau

The links in the widgets should link to the page set as the Directory Home Page on the Connections : Settings admin page under the General tab.

It does not appear to be happening for you because the links are resolving to a WordPress category archive page.

Notice the link before clicking it, it has a link like this:
http://cuptaste.com/coffee-roasters/name/yowie-coffee/

Watching the network requests, I can see WordPress doing a 301 redirect to this:
http://cuptaste.com/category/coffee-roasters/

This is a category archive page.

The only time I see this is when a post and/or a page and/or a taxonomy term ends up with the same slug. In this case that would be coffee-roasters.

When this happens … WordPress gets confused as to which page should be shown.

What you’ll need to do is track down which of these, page or post, or taxonomy ended up with a duplicate slug and change the slug so it is unique.

If you do not want to hunt that down, you can work around it by creating a “Results” page for Connections and set the Directory Home Page to the “Results” page. On the “Results” page you would simply have the [connections] shortcode with no options. When a link in a widget is clicked in a widget it resolved to the “Results” page rendered using the single view of the cMap template. The “Results” page can be named anything … in your case, you could name it “Coffee Roaster”, then assuming there is no slug for coffee-roaster, the widget links will be:
http://cuptaste.com/coffee-roaster/name/yowie-coffee/

There is no way to link to a specific page, your regions, with your setup, sorry!

I hope this helps resolves the issue, let me know.

[Steven Zahm]

@ mike

I looked at that plugins code … I do not really see a reason for it not to be compatible with WP 4. I do see why there is a conflict with Connections though. We both set and use custom paths for the upload folder. The Custom Upload Dir plugin just happens to run after Connections so the custom path is changed. It’s a relatively easy fix for me to make sure no other plugins can override my custom path. I’ll make sure that fix works it way into 8.1.6. I probably even do it today so it is fresh in my mind.

[Steven Zahm]

@ John

Ok, I tracked it down! It seems you webhost has Imagick installed and available for use in PHP, which is good. It is faster and more efficient than the GD library that is more commonly used. The bad part is that it must be an old version which did not support a specific function, setImageOpacity(), that I was using. I just added a check to see if the function exists before using trying to use it. In version 8.1.6, I’ll have some additional check for this.

Any way you’re good to go.

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

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