[Steven Zahm]

@ Brian

RE: maps/geocoding

Perhaps the Google Maps Key was not correct and Google permitted n-number of geocoding requests before cutting your off… Kind of like a grace period.

RE: pagination

I installed the Rewrite Rules Inspector plugin. There are some very suspect rules, one of which has basically “hijacked” the pagination of Connections and possible other plugins too. The rule is very, very broad. It’ll capture all requests which resemble:

mymesaaz.online/anything/anything/number/

My best guess as to the source is whatever was used to create the Channels/Noodle/Haha post types. The code implementing these will need to be corrected.

The reason I suspect that code is the suspect rule is grouped with the rules for those post types.

Three is another very broad rule that will cause issues too. It’ll capture any links like this:

mymesaaz.online/anything/number/

I’m pretty sure a rule like that one will break core WP paged posts.

I hope this helps! Let me know.

ps. I was not able to use the FTP login info. I could not get it to work.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Carlos

We’ll, conventional posts tags are not user specific. They are site wide. You could use a custom fields text field to allow users to add comma delimited words (tags/keywords) but they would not be truly tags and there would not be a way to links to those keywords.

Again, you could use categories. Create a parent category called “tags”. As children categories add such as “Lawyers in Brickell Dr Miami” or “Best Lawyers in Miami” “Injury attorneys in Miami” categories. You can assign them as you normally would since each entry can be assigned more than one category. This way you can link to and filter by the categories. You could even use the Split Categories addon to split the “Tags” category into it’s on metabox so they are separate from the other caegories.

Hope this helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Brian

Ok, I do not see anything in the system info that stands out as a potential issue. I’ll need a login, both the admin and ftp so I can try and figure this out.

In regards to entries without maps. Only entries with a lat/lng can be plotted on a map. This is called geocoding. Connections does this when an entry added/edited. It uses either OpenStreetMap (OSM) of Google Maps, if setup. Google Maps is pretty good at geocoding US based addresses, OSM is not all that great.

So that said, I suspect the mapless entries have no lat/lng and can not be geocoded automagically for you.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Amy

And entry can be assigned to more than a single category. So, you can assign an entry to cat1 and show. That entry would still display on the page which displays cat1 and since it is also cat show, it will be open by default. Similarly is entry2 is assign both cat2 and show, it will still be displayed on the second page for cat2 and will be open by default.

I suggest giving a quick try on two entries in two different categories to make sure this solution does or does not meet you needs.

Hope this helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Brian

Sorry to hear you are having trouble with the Google Maps API. Unfortunately this is not something I can set up for you.

The key is setup, but according to the error message from Google, the site referrer restriction is not correct.

You have two options…

The first is the easiest. Do not use Google Maps. Remove the keys from the Connections Settings admin page and the maps will default to Wikimedia Maps.

The second is remove the referrer restriction from the Google Maps API key in the Google Console.

There is one last one, correct the referrer restriction on the Google Maps API key in the Google Console. Keep in mind change are not immediate and can take several minutes to be propagated through Google’s servers.

In regards to the login link, what you supplied looks to be only the temporary security key… you need to copy paste the whole link.

[Steven Zahm]

@ John

RE: Sorry but I don’t understand. I just want the logo (not the image) to link to the full directory listing of that organisation when clicked like when you click on the organisation name and it takes you to the full listing. Is that possible please?

Apologies that my answer was not clear. I’ll rephrase…

Sorry, no, there is not an easy point and click way to make the image, logo or photo, a link to the full listing.

The image, logo or photo, can be assigned a link when adding or editing an entry. Look for the Links section when editing an entry. Each Link you add to the entry can be assigned to an image.

It is possible to make the image, logo or photo, a link to the full listing but that would require making code changes to the template. Making these code changes will break the feature where a Link can be assigned to an image.

Hope hope this answer is more clear= and helps.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Carla

You could install this addon for Connections

https://github.com/Connections-Business-Directory/Entry-Organization

You would enter all your Orgs. The when adding Individual entries, you can only selected the pre entered Orgs.

You could then use the list_type shortcode option to display on the Orgs.

You desired template would have to it’s PHP file altered to display the list of individuals in the Org. So that is the downside since it does require PHP coding. This is something I can do for you. If you are interested, I can provide a quote.

[Steven Zahm]

@ John

RE: Is it possible to have a clickable link to the full directory listing from the logo as it does when you click the organisation name please?

The link option on the image is reserved for being assigned when added a link to the entry. This could be changed by editing the template’s PHP file. Do so, would break that feature.

RE: Is it also possible to have a ‘can’t find what you’re looking for?’ form at the end of every directory search result, whether there are organisations found or not?

If you are using Contact Form 7 for this, you could put the [contact-form-7 id="1234" title="Contact form 1"] shortcode with after the [connections] shortcode on the page.

Hope this helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Brian

Unrelated… but since you have a login widget in the sidebar, I do recommend turning off the login form within the entries. Navigate to the Connections : Settings admin page and click the Display tab. Disable the “Login Form” Content block in both the Results List and Single Entry sections.

In regards to the pagination… It appears something is “hijacking” (for the lack of a better term) the pg permalink but only in the directory root. Filtering by category and then going to a page works, ex:

http://www.mymesaaz.online/directory/cat/chiropractors/pg/9/

I can tell this is not happening as a redirect, so this is occurring very early in the WP load process…

Try deactivating and reactivating Connections followed by saving the Permalinks again.

If that does not work. Disable all plugins except the Connections plugin and its addons. Save the permalinks again.

Please share your System Info with me by navigating to the Connections : Tools admin page and clicking the System Info. Scroll to the bottom of the page and create a share link. Reply back, as a private reply, with that link.

Or, create a temp admin account using this plugin:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/temporary-login-without-password/

Reply back, as a private reply, with the link.

Lastly, is your .htaccess file “standard”, meaning, have you added any custom directives which affect WP?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Brian

RE: when I go to a list of businesses that has multiple pages and click on to the next page it gives me an error. Have you come across this at all?

Navigate to the WP Settings : Permalinks admin page. Make no changes, scroll to the bottom of the page and click the SAve Changes button. This forces WP to refresh its permalink structure.

RE: I can’t get the maps API to work.

Open the directory page in Chrome and click the link for the “1on1 Nutrition & Fitness LLC” profile page. Now, hit the F12 key and then click the Console tab.

You will see the error from Google which is:

Google Maps JavaScript API error: RefererNotAllowedMapError … Your site URL to be authorized:

Here’s the link to Google Maps docs on the error.

Basically what this means is that you need to update the site referrer restriction for your Google Maps API key to allow this site to use the Google Maps API.

Hope this helps!

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