Conflict With Stockholm Theme

@ Anne

I ended having to load the site using IE11 in order to duplicate it. The difference ended up being access the site via http://limabuildingtrades.com vs http://www.limabuildingtrades.com. Notice the www you have your site configured to require the www so when you access the site without it, WP tries to do the redirect internally to prevent duplicate content issues for search engines. You should set up this redirect in your htaccess. Using WP to handle the redirect causes unnecessary server load and just as importantly, slightly increase page load time.

That said… Connections does have a redirect which is only in effect when accessing the site’s frontpage. In simple terms the redirect is prevented. This is done to permit those who wish to use the directory on their sites frontpage to do so. Without this special case it would not be possible, for example, to view the single entry profile/detail view (not used in Slim Plus). What would occur is that WP assumes the user is trying to view a post instead of a directory entry which of course it will not find and display a 404 not found error. Basically it is the only way for plugins (not just Connections) shortcode to work on the front page when their shortcode relies on a query variable to determine what to display. Hope that is not confusing!

Any way, that said… I made the logic a little bit smarter. Please try again, should work fine. Let me know.

@ Anne

RE: Thanks for the explanation and for fixing it. It works fine now

Great to hear! I’ll be releasing an update today which will include this tweak.

RE: If I could suggest anything to make it better, it would be to allow the directory to be shown in multiple ways.

Not sure I understand. Could you give a couple examples?

@ Anne

Oh, I see. sorry but grouping by category will not likely ever be a feature because it is not scaleable. For example, many users nest categories many levels deep and assign entries to many different categories. Even with a simple one level deep category structure, even pagination is an issue. This is why you see most directory solutions which allow filtering by category with paginated results. Like you have now with Slim Plus. Grouping by category is only feasible with a small directories with a limited number of categories which are not nested.

May I make a suggestion for your site?

On the category page:

http://www.limabuildingtrades.com/contractors-by-category/

Instead of linking to separate pages for each category, link back to your own directory page. For example, to link back to your directory to display Drywall Contractors using this link:

http://www.limabuildingtrades.com/contractors-alphabetically/?cn-s=&cn-cat=42

Another solution would be to use the Enhanced Categories extension. On the display by category page you could drop in its shortcode and have it display the image grid of teh categories which will link back to the directory. If you choose this option, you should disable the category drop down on Slim Plus.

Hope this helps!