shortcode template over ride

@ cheryl

Lets see…

re: It appears it used logo instead of photo

Yes, cMap uses the logo by default due to its focus to be used for businesses. Just like many of the other advanced options this can be changed with a shortcode option that it enable. All the options for cMap can be found on this page. The specific options are image and tray_image. Set these like so:

[connections image="photo" tray_image="none"]

Now cMap will use the image instead of the logo.

What is not entirely clear to me is if you uploaded the images as an image or a logo. So if you want to use the logo in Tile Plus instead of the image you would use:

[connections image="logo"]

re: I could go back to cmap for the print page but the blocks went all the way across the page and wasted space. Could I make the blocks smaller and put two across?

Sorry, no, there is no way to “tile” cMap.

re: It appears that tile plus changes the size and it isn’t cropped proportionally. This has made many of the images chopped off.

The crops are proportional otherwise the images would be stretched or otherwise skewed. What is different is the scaling before a crop or margins are added.

Assuming the defaults…

Tile Plus will scale the image to fit the smallest dimension and crop the excess image on the larger dimension. This crop is centered weighted meaning the crop will be taken of the sides evenly rather than one side or the other. This crop mode can not be easily changed without delving into PHP code. This crop mode was chosen for this template because of the intent of being used for a photo of an individual which are mostly centered weighted portrait photos.

cMap differs in that is uses the logo by default and the default crop mode for logos is to is scale the image to fit within the dimensions and add a margin as needed. If you switch cMap to use a photo instead by using the shortcode from above, the default crop mode would be the same as Tile Plus. Although that can be changed by changing the Crop Mode for the Medium Image on the Connections : Settings admin page under the Images tab.

Hopefully this explains the difference clear enough.

If you want to try to change the default crop mode used in Connections by dipping into PHP, here’s how:

Install the Code Snippet plugin.

Add a new snippet with the following code:

function cheryl_image_atts( $atts ) {

    $atts['zc'] = 2;

    return $atts;
}
add_filter( 'cn_output_default_atts_image', 'cheryl_image_atts' );

Save and activate the new snippet.

Keep in mind when doing this, since the images are much smaller in Tile Plus, the images will be much smaller than cMap. My guess, about the size of a postage stamp when printed. So your milage may vary.

Hope that helps!

@ cheryl

There’s this:

[connections image_height=150 image_width=200]

change accordingly… though it will not change the crop mode and you’ll need to change the tile size.