Like all things in software development, things never go as planned. The next release of Connections was supposed to occur today because a critical fix for WordPress 3.3 is needed for Connections to be compatible, but I still have a decent list of things I’d really like to finish up for this release. The good news …
It probably would be an understatement if I said search was the most often requested feature. Well, it’s coming. The feature is fully implemented in the admin. There is only some tidying up yet to do. I also updated the cMap template to include search. Market will also get search and so will the ‘Plus’ templates. …
Connections has many unique features, one of which is the ability to add as many items to each field type as you need. What do I mean? Well, for example, for the address field type you can add as many addresses as you need for the entry. The same goes for phone numbers, email addresses …
Another week, another feature preview. One of the most visible changes will be the addition of the Connections Dashboard admin page. This page was modeled after the WordPress Dashboard, so what you see in the screen capture are the available widgets and just like the WordPress Dashboard these can be rearranged and even hidden if you …
Just like addresses, an entry could be assigned any number of websites. While that was pretty useful, I wanted to improve on it. After taking into consideration how I’ve been asked to use this feature to customize templates, I decided to re-engineer this feature and rename the section on the entry form to ‘Links’. Take …
I’m already hard at work on the next version of Connections and here’s the list of features and changes that I hope will be in the next version: Features: Add an Overview page that will display the following widgets: Today’s Birthday’s Upcoming Birthday’s Today’s Anniversaries Upcoming Anniversaries Recently Added Recently Updated Awaiting Moderation Add ‘tabs’ …
After a couple thousand upgrade and no reported issues I’d say this latest release is a success! Download Here Here’s the official changelog: 0.7.1.3 01/17/2011 OTHER: No Changes. SVN error. 0.7.1.2 01/17/2011 BUG: Fixed the width and height setting being swapped in the getLogoImage() method. 0.7.1.1 01/15/2011 FEATURE: Added Contact First and Last name fields …
One of the planned updates for the next release of Connections is to improve the rich text editing of the Bio and Notes fields. Well, I’ve made great progress with that. Take a peek at the screen captures. I’ve dropped jWYSIWYG for rich editing. Unfortunately it just isn’t robust enough and had some flaky behaviors …
The next release is coming along very nicely. Many new small feature have been added and well as coding optimizations which reduce the memory requirements. There is one major downside. This next update will break any custom templates that directly accessed the data for addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, websites and social networks. This was …
Connections is becoming more and more popular which great and I thank you! Here’s a peek at my development plans. Many of the features listed below are coming by popular demand. If all goes well the next release should be coming very soon. Next Release => 0.7.0.0 BUG: Set the db version after each db …