Now that the latest release of Connections is out the door, and doing quite well I may add, I can shift my focus to working on the next update to Form. What can you expect? The frequently requested email notifications. With the next version you’ll have the option to set up two email notifications. The …
Adding permalink support to Connections has presented some interesting challenges to overcome since there is an established user base using it in a variety of ways that had to be taken in to account. First, everyone on the next upgrade will be required to choose a target page. Target home page, huh? Read on… A …
I had simple request come in the other week … Can you make the telephone numbers clickable on mobile phones so they can be dialed by clicking it? I know that both Android and the iPhone attempt to do this automatically. I also knew, for some reason, that the numbers were not clickable within entry cards in …
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 …
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 …