Tile is our standard business card template. It is also a scaled down version of our ever-popular Tile Plus. Containing fixed height and width control and customizable labels, this template produces the tiled elegance easy readability for your contact directories.
However, unlike the more functional Tile Plus, Tile lacks any type of categorization features and contains no search function. We recommend this template only for the most limited of applications, such as small associations and personal contact lists.
As with all of our templates though, please view the Features and Customization Options in the tabs below and decide for yourself if Tile (or the more functional Tile Plus) is the right choice for you to make your Connections work today!
Sample
- 35 Customization Options
- Photo
- Customizable Labels
- If no photo is available a block will be shown with the text ‘No Photo Available’
- If the show_alphahead Connections shortcode option is set to TRUE the tiles will create tile groups under the alpha header.
The features of this template can be customized by adding the following options to the Connections shortcode.
Here’s an example shortcode that can be used for Tile that removes the photo and changes the default label of ‘Cell Phone’ to ‘Cell’. As you see in this example shortcode, you only need to add the options you wish to change from the default setting and you can mix and match the options to suit your needs.
[connections template='tile' show_image=false str_cell_phone='Cell']
Here’s the list of options the Tile template adds to the shortcode with their default setting.
- card_width=240
- card_height=150
- enable_website_link=TRUE
- show_image=TRUE
- show_addresses=FALSE
- show_phone_numbers=TRUE
- show_email=TRUE
- show_im=FALSE
- show_social_media=FALSE
- show_birthday=FALSE
- show_anniversary=FALSE
- address_types=’home, work, school, other’
- phone_types=’homephone, homefax, workphone, workfax, cellphone’
- email_types=’personal, work’
- image=’photo’
- image_width=NULL
- image_height=NULL
- image_fallback=’block’
- str_image=’No Photo Available’
- str_contact=’Contact’
- str_home_addr=’Home’
- str_work_addr=’Work’
- str_school_addr=’School’
- str_other_addr=’Other’
- str_home_phone=’Home Phone’
- str_home_fax=’Home Fax’
- str_cell_phone=’Cell Phone’
- str_work_phone=’Work Phone’
- str_work_fax=’Work Fax’
- str_personal_email=’Personal Email’
- str_work_email=’Work Email’
- str_visit_website=’Visit Website’
- name_format=’%prefix% %first% %middle% %last% %suffix%’
- contact_name_format=’%label%: %first% %last%’
- addr_format=’%label% %line1% %line2% %line3% %city%, %state% %zipcode% %country%’
- Connections >= 0.7.1.3
- Permalink structure other than Default.
- Entry Image MUST be set to:
- Width: 80px
- Height: 120px [or smaller]
- NOTE: If images have already been uploaded in a different size they will need to be uploaded again after the image settings are applied to be compliant with this template.
- Entry Image Settings
- Quality: 75%
- Width: 80px
- Height: 120px [or smaller]
- Crop