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Author: Steven A. Zahm

Connections is a simple to use address book system but is also very versatile. You can use it to create a church directory, business directory, staff directory and even profiles pages using the default templates. If the default layouts don’t suit your needs you can easily create your own custom template. Want to show a list of upcoming birthdays and anniversaries, no problem, you can do that too. Take a look at the screen shots and the samples on this site to see all Connections can do.

Admin Features

• Built-in help page
• Selectable entry type; Individual / Organization / Connection Group
• Each entry has selectable visibility. You can choose between, public, private and unlisted.
• Image support with the ability to set custom images sizes and how they should be scaled and cropped.
• Copy entries.
• Bulk actions that include setting the visibility on deleting entries.
• Filters that are persistent per user between sessions and browsers.
• Extensive role support.
• Category Support. Categories can be hierarchical and entries can be assigned to any number of categoies.

Frontend Features

• xHTML Transition output
• Custom template support
• Shortcode filter attributes for the entry list that include being able to filter by last name, title, organization, department, city, state, zip, country and category.
• Shortcode attributes for choosing the supplied templates or custom templates which include; single entry, multiple entry (default) and profile view templates.
• Shortcode attribute to repeat the alpha index and the beginning of each character change. User requested.
• Shortcode attribute to show the current character at the beginning of each character group. User requested.
• Entries output in hCard compatible format.
• Download the vCard of an individual entry that can be imported into you email application.

New features this version:

• RTE for the Bio and Notes fields
• Custom ordering shortcode attribute.

New features coming in the next version:

• Add honorable pre/suffix
• Contact name for the organization entry type.

Upcoming features:

• Pagination
• Search
• Localization
• Make the Connection Group relations in the front end entry list clickable to bring up the entry's specific details.
• Integration with WP users to permit registered users to maintain their own info with optional moderation.
• Gravatar support
• Backup
• ...and any suggestion that I may receive...

Credits:

• This plugin was based off LBB, "Little Black Book"; which was based on Addressbook, both of which can be found in the Plugin Directory.
• vCard class is a modified version by Troy Wolf
• Image uploading and processing done by the class.upload.php by Colin Verot
• Counter class from O'Reilly's Intro to PHP Objects

Known Issues:

• Currently when an image link is removed the files are not deleted from the server
• The vCard feature is not compatible with WP Super Cache. Make sure the page/post excluded in WP Super Cache.