Index of Listings?

@ Mark

Sorry, no, not at the top of the list… what you can do is enable the “View All” link. Here’s how:

Go to the Connections : Settings admin page.

Go to the Display table.

Scroll down to the Result List Actions section.

Enable the View All link option.

Save the changes.

Now, at the top of the list you will find a view all link that when click will show an index of all entri in the directory.

Hope that helps!

@ Mark

re: Unfortunately, this isn’t ideal for my specific needs (and that’s probably the problem: the client has a very specific idea of how they want this page to look and work).

There are plenty of hooks in Connections, you could create a custom extension for your client which adds the index to the top of the list.

re: I noticed that when I clicked on the View All link and then viewed a listing, the Go Back to Directory link goes back to the View All listing, not the Directory itself (the listing of all of the businesses that is displayed on page load).

The link is effectively (simply) the browser back button. This is the way it is to allow for some rather complex setups. My guess is that the previous page you were on was the view all page when you click the back link.

Hope that helps!

@ Mark

Well… I do not have any written resources for this specifically. All the code in Connections includes a lot of inline documentation.

Are you familiar on how to write plugins for WordPress using actions and filters? If you are, creating extensions for Connections is exactly the same except you would use the actions and filters Connections adds to WordPress. To output something before the results list in Connections you would use the cn_list_before_body action found here.

Hope that helps get you on your way.