Steven Zahmre: the demo site I originally mentioned, http://narpmphoenix.com/, some of the listings are ‘featured’. Is that done by putting them in a separate category using a different template or some other way?
I poked around the site, I didn’t see anywhere where they were featuring entries. Car you share the direct link? I’ll take a look and let you know the method they used.
You could use a category named “Featured” to assign your featured entries to and then use the Custom Entry Order extension to bump them to the top of the list.
You can use multiple shortcodes on the same page to do featured entries but that does become a bit problematic if you introduce a way to allow a user to filter by category. Both shortcode will respond to the filter. So, depending on the shortcode options, one may output the no results message while the other shows the results or you could end end with the list showing the same thing twice (or more, depends how many times you add the shortcode on the page).
re: Finally, I solved the problem of the 404 error on the name-link page for the non-admin user.
Great to hear!
I’m working in a child theme to modify the ‘card’ template. I was able to modify the category listings OK , but when I look at the detail listing (by clicking on the name of the entry) I can’t get the bio or notes to appear. Which .php file controls which listing?re; I’m working in a child theme to modify the ‘card’ template. I was able to modify the category listings OK , but when I look at the detail listing (by clicking on the name of the entry) I can’t get the bio or notes to appear. Which .php file controls which listing?
The file is the card-single.php file. Here’s the doc page on how to weak the default templates](http://connections-pro.com/2014/05/13/quicktip-tweaking-core-templates/). And here’s one discussing how to implement custom template override files. Lastly, here’s the docs for custom CSS files. These docs cover how to make these changes in an update safe way. If you alter the files in the plugin, you’ll lose all your hard work when an update to Connections is released.
Hope this helps!