Here’s the download link to RC 1: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/connections.zip The release candidate should be fully compatible with WordPress 3.1.x through 3.4.2. The major differences between RC1 and RC2 are: The database upgrade should be triggered regardless of the upgrade method used. Image quality issue has been corrected. Added filters to all the cnOutput methods for the …
Here’s the download link to RC 1: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/connections.zip The release candidate should be fully compatible with WordPress 3.1.x through 3.4.2. Here’s some in depths posts about some of the new features: Search (updated) New date field that replaces the current Anniversary and Birthday fields. Revamped settings page. Clickable phone numbers. Permalinks support. Geocoding. See the …
I made mention of this upcoming feature before and now it is complete and ready for the next release. What it will offer for everyone is the automatic background geocoding of every address input for an entry when adding a new entry or updating an existing entry. Or you can manually invoke geocoding of the address …
Not the most glamours of features but one of the most important… Using the Settings API Wrapper Class I developed, the Settings page has been completely revamped. It took longer than I had anticipated to develop this API but it was time very well spent, even if it delayed the next release. Why, because it’ll …
Several years agoConnections started out as just some tweaks to suit some personal needs to another plugin, “Little Black Book“, which itself was a tweaked version of “Addressbook“. One of those tweaks was adding the anniversary and birthday fields. On second thought, maybe it was just adding the option of inputting a second address. Either …
Wait, doesn’t Connections already support search? Well, yes. That was a first attempt. This revision of search has been better optimized for speed which will allow searching of thousands of entries really quickly. It should also, hopefully, return more relevant results. It still could use more tweaking, but for now, this is a much needed …
These two releases were primarily for fixing bugs. Unfortunately I let a critical bug slip though in version 0.7.2.2 released on Christmas day. The bug was that you couldn’t save or update links. This bug only affected new installations, so anyone upgrading wouldn’t have experienced this. I did slip in a couple new features. One …
Well, after the long wait the next version of Connections has been released updon the world. Many thanks to those of you who downloaded the beta and release candidate and reported bugs! The response so far has been overwhelmingly positive, only a few minor issues which will be addressed. Actually these issues are so minor …
Here’s the download link to RC 1: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/connections.zip RC 1 should be fully compatible with WordPress 3.1.x through 3.3. It is strongly advised that you backup the current four Connections tables in the db before the upgrade because the db structure has been changed significantly. After the upgrade is completed, validate the data for as …
The next release of Connections is packed with new features, many of which can be taken advantage of by templates. Every template in one way or another will benefit from the next release, but most templates will need to be updated to take advantage of most of the new features. If you’ve been following along, you already …