Installation Instructions

1. Upload the connections directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.
3. If you wish to create and use custom template be sure to create the ./wp-content/connections_templates directory/folder. This is where you will copy any custom templates you might create.
4. Add the shortcode [connections_list] to display the directory on a page or post.

FAQ

FAQs can be found here

Changelog

0.7.0.4 7/26/2010

• FEATURE: Add the option to display the front end list in a specified order.
• FEATURE: Add the option to display the front end list in a random order on each page visit/refresh.
• BUG: Fixed type that cause the website URLs to be invalid.
• BUG: Fixed so Select wouldn't wouldn't be saved as the address type.

0.7.0.3 7/20/2010

• FEATURE: Set website urls to open in a new window/tab as the default.
• BUG: Set initial DB version during activation.
• BUG: Fix many errors reported when WP_DEBUG is set to true.
• BUG: Fix database table check before the table is created during activation.
• BUG: When an entry is added, the last modified by field is now correctly set.
• BUG: The intial entry category relationship would not be set correctly to uncatgorized if no categories were selected.
• BUG: Fix recursive category children when using specified categories multiple times on the same page.
• OTHER: Reduced memory requirements further by passing a few large objects by reference rather than creating new instances.
• OTHER: Add UTF-8 support in the vCard file.
• OTHER: Base64 encode image into the vCard rather than the URI.
• OTHER: When creating tables the character set and collate will honor the settings in wp-config.php or the default settings for WP.
• OTHER: Upgrade jWYSIWYG to version .92.
• OTHER: Added support for the CSV Import Pro Module

0.7.0.2 6/12/2010

• FEATURE: Add upgrade notice to the plugin admin page.
• BUG: Fix WYSIWYG tag parse.
• BUG: Fix order_by bug. Would not sot sort by city, state, zipcode, country.
• OTHER: Add missing documentions for the social media template tags.

0.7.0.1 5/17/2010

• BUG: Fix fatal error when custom ordering the results.
• BUG: Fix CSS error for a gradient.

0.7.0.0 5/16/2010

• FEATURE: Add links on the plug-in management admin page for Settings, Help, Support and Donate.
• FEATURE: Added group_name shortcode attribute filter.
• FEATURE: Theme Template tag for theme developement to display the entry list. All shortcode attributes are supported.
• FEATURE: Theme Template tag for theme developement to display the upcoming list. All shortcode attributes are supported.
• FEATURE: The category shortcode attribute has been expanded to allow multiple categories to be called via a comma separated list. If the category has children entries, they will has display (recursively).
• FEATURE: Added shortcode attribute, wp_current_category. When this is set to true and the shortcode is used in a post, all entries that have the same category name will be displayed.
• FEATURE: Allow more than one website address to be entered per entry.
• FEATURE: Automatically add the http:// to the website addresses.
• FEATURE: Automatically add the http:// to the social network urls.
• FEATURE: Add vCard download link to entry actions.
• FEATURE: Add Upgrade Notice text to the readme.txt.
• FEATURE: Show the entries assigned categories in the entry list.
• FEATURE: Categories are add to the vcard div class.
• FEATURE: Add template tag to show an entries assigned categories.
• BUG: Set the db version after each db upgrade cycle.
• BUG: Add the missing social media block to the output class, default templates and help page.
• BUG: Fix typos in the help page.
• BUG: Fixed improper use of the prepare method when saving and updating entries.
• BUG: Fix issue causing the adding/editing of entries to fail when the '%' character was used.
• BUG: Fix error caused by empty $results array in the shortcode.
• BUG: Editing a Connection Group caused it to show up twice in the list and only one was editable while the other gave an error.
• BUG: Fixing saving the entry type.
• BUG: The shorcode filter attributes were not escaped. So strings with extended characters would fail to return a match.
• BUG: Fixed elements left behind after removing fields in the entry form.
• BUG: Remove entry images from the server when they are removed from the entry.
• BUG: If an image was manually deleted from the server, the image tag will not be output.
• BUG: Fixed bug that allowed duplicate categories to be created.
• BUG: Fixed issue where database would go thru the update cycle on a new install.
• OTHER: Add instructional text to the image settings.
• OTHER: Add rel="nofollow" to the vCard download link.
• OTHER: Removed the use of $_SESSION throughtout the plug-in.
• OTHER: Enhance plug-in security through the use of nonce.
• OTHER: Move the methods from cnConvert class to the cnFormatting class.
• OTHER: Move the class.upload.php to the image processing method to remove 1.3MB of plug-in overhead.
• OTHER: Reduce memory overhead.
• OTHER: Reduce database queries.
• OTHER: More efficient query to return entires.
• OTHER: Removed the 'custom_template' shortcode attribute. Instead, the custom template folder will be checked for the specified template.
• OTHER: Moved the template file checking out of the entry list loop to reduce server file system IO.
• OTHER: Add place holders in the admin entry list if no image is associated to an entry.
• OTHER: Add dependecies and versions to all wp_enqueue_script / wp_enqueue_style calls.
• OTHER: Upgrade the class.php.upload class to .29
• OTHER: Better documention throughout.

0.6.2.1 2/3/2010

• BUG: Fixed fatal error when using the shortcode attribute repeat_alphaindex.

0.6.2 2/2/2010

• BUG: Fixed unable to remove phone numbers.
• BUG: Fixed when removing a field from an entry that the entire field is removed leaving no remnants.
• Add support for basic HTML and RTE for the Notes and Bio fields using the jwysiwyg 0.6 jOquery plug-in.
• Add order_by shortcode attribute for custom ordering of entries and updated the help page.
• Add support for the CSV premium add-on.
• Add the missing getBioBlock method to the output class.
• Enhanced the help page.

0.6.1 1/19/2010

• BUG: Fixed a bug when initializing the settings so they are not reset on activation of the plugin.
• BUG: Fixed how capabilities were created and managed for public entries.
• BUG: Fixed how the entry edit link was created which was causing a token mismatch.
• BUG: Fixed a permission error when using the shortcode override attributes.
• Updated class.upload.php to version .28
• Remove SQL class, didn't make sense to use it.
• Defined table names as constants.
• Options class now is used throughout the plug-in rather than creating new instances.
• Renamed all the classes to be more unique to help avoid conflict with other plug-ins.
• Re-worked the way method used to store the cached entry list filters to use the user_meta table.
• Capturing more meta data when added/updating entries; date added, added by, last edited by.
• Added and middle name. Support extended to hCard and vCard.
• Added a setting to disable the private override shortcode attribute.
• Added a filter class that can easily be extended. Currently supports filtering by visibility and entry type.
• Added a permission filter. All queries are run thru this filter removing any entries the current user is not permitted to view.
• Changed it so the upgrade message and version error only show on the Connections admin pages.
• Started to enable support for SSL connections.
• Changed minimum supported WP version to 2.8 [Used 2.8 only function for editable roles]
• Add check for $_SESSION save path and throw an error if it isn't found.
• Add category support.
• Add upgrade routine to support new features and some planned future features.
• All strings output from the cnEntry and related classes are now sanitized.

0.5.48 9/14/2009

• Fixed a jQuery bug in IE8.
• The alpha index in the admin is now dynamic. It will only show letters for entries in the list.

0.5.47 9/3/2009

• Updated class.upload.php to version .25
• Added extensive role support.
• Added the ability to set custom image sizes.
• Added the ability to determine how an image should be scaled and cropped.
• Extensive backend code changes.
• Focus on making sure the plug-in is secure.

0.5.1 - 6/21/2009

• Added a shortcode attribute to repeat the alpha index and the beginning of each character change. User requested.
• Added a shortcode attribute to show the current character at the beginning of each character group. User requested.
• Added additional filters for addresses. User requested.
• Run the SQL queries through the $wpdb->prepare() method for security
• Change the change log so it shows up as a top level tab on the WordPress plug-in page

0.5.0

• Adding/Editing/Copying now use the class
• Added bulk delete.
• Added an entry type of Connection Group. This allows to you create relational links between entries.
• Moved the plug-in to be a top level menu item.
• Added a help sub-page.
• Added a setting page. Settings will actually be available in the next version.
• Added a donate button - a user request.
• Added a spiffy icon for the menu and page headers.

0.4.0

• Added hCard compatible markup
• xHTML Transitional valid output
• Added hCalendar compatible markup for birthdays and anniversaries.
• Birthday/anniversary will now show the next anniversary/birthday date for the entry.
• Added support for vCard download of an entry.

0.3.3

• Added shortcode filter attributes

0.3.2

• Converted the rest of the code to use OO methods
• Started to add jQuery in the admin
• Fixed the CSS to load only in the Connections page
• All the fields that can be input are shown in the output
• Added the ability to use custom output templates and a slew of template tags
• Added a default profile template and a default single entry template

0.2.24

• Converted more code to use OO methods
• Code clean-up and documentation
• Fixed the alpha index bug not correctly working with organization entry types
• Added a shortcode to allow showing all entries; individual or organizations entries

0.2.23

• Converted more code to use OO methods
• Display some of the missing fields in the output

0.2.22

• Added Org/Individual options
• Added IM fields
• Added BIO field
• Added Org/Individual filter
• Started to convert the code to OO PHP

0.2.11

• Added a nice little up arrow to both the admin and page/post entry list to return to the top of the list

0.2.10

• Added the ability to copy an entry

0.2.9

• Some more code cleanup
• Started code documentation
• Added the ability to choose whether or not a linked image in an entry is displayed when embedded in a page/post
• Added the ability to remove the linked image from an entry

0.2.8

• Fix bug that was causing IE to not filter correctly
• Code cleanup

0.2.7

• Added preliminary image support for entries

0.2.4

• Add entry ID to the admin

0.2.3

• First version in the repository