Due to the new Template Customizer feature added in Connections 8.4 the templates Excerpt, Slim and Tile have become largely redundant and are being retired. Here are a few questions I thought might be asked… What does this mean if I purchased one of these recently? Well, honestly, not much. They will still be supported for the next year …
cMap has received a significant update to take full advantage of the new Template Customizer feature introduced in Connections 8.4 with individually configurable list and detail views including over 100 interactive point and click tweakable options to allow you to tweak the template to better meet your exact needs and style for tighter visual integration …
Introduction A question that’s popped up in the support forums a few times now is, how can I import into the Custom Fields metadata using the CSV Import extension. There is not a way to do this thru a point and click interface yet. This is planned to come as a feature of an extension …
There was a question in the WordPress.org support forums asking how to remove or hide the category support built into Connections. Category support is a feature that is deeply integrated into Connections so the feature can not be “remove” but access to it can be suppressed. The first thing you need to do is install …
Connections was built from the ground up for tweaking… I’ve already covered how to create Custom CSS files and Custom Template CSS files. Now, I will go over how to tweak the template card PHP files in an update-safe way. This QuickTip starts very similarly to the other two, so if you have already gone over …
Likely the most popular feature of Connections is its templating support which is extremely flexible … I’ll be posting more on this topic. What I’d like to go over in this QuickTip is if you make a tweak to a core template how to make sure that tweak is update safe. All the core templates …
This QuickTip is very similar to the Custom CSS QuickTip but with one very important distinct difference, this is template specific custom CSS loading. And just like the Custom CSS QuickTip this is update safe so you will not lose this custom CSS when you update either Connections or the template. The first thing you need is the …
Tile Plus has received a significant update to take full advantage of all the newer features built into Connections.
Market has received a significant update to take full advantage of all the newer features built into Connections.
cMap has received a significant update to take full advantage of all the newer features built into Connections.