Steven Zahm@ Estelle
re: I’m afraid it doesn’t. When I’m in connections, templates
It has to work because that is how the word “Biography” is set initially. If it didn’t it could not be set and then not displayed.
My suggestions…
- Edit the page again, switch the post editor to the Text tab and make sure there is no HTML tags in and/or around the Connections shortcode and the template shortcode options within the shortcode. If you copy paste shortcode or options from a website into the Visual editor you will also paste the underlying HTML that is used to display it on a web page. This is not a bug or limitation with Connections. This is how the WordPress posted editor is designed to function.
- If you are using any sort of page caching either server side or a WordPress plugin make sure you clear the cache otherwise you will not see the change.
- I see you are using the Divi theme, if I remember correctly they have there own builtin cache too, make sure you clear it.
re: I can see that the core templates allow for shortcode override… but I don’t have that option with Excerpt Plus 2.0.
Yes, that option is available and displayed for all templates on the Connections : Templates admin page. This is a core builtin feature that works with all templates regardless of being the free core template or the premium templates. It is really, really odd that you can see this for the core templates but not Excerpt Plus. The only thing I can think of is that another plugin is somehow hiding it by not limiting its own CSS/CSS files to its own admin pages.
Any way the template shortcode override is template="excerpt-plus", but you do not need it. The template is displaying fine on your site.
re: How/where do I modify the template?
Here are a couple links to docs which cover this:
Hope that helps!