Steven Zahm@ Lynan
RE: Spacing issues.
Best guess since I can not see the page is that the theme has some styles that are being applied to the template. Perhaps to either the title or organization classes (required classes for the hCard microfomat standard).
In regards to the image. That’s hard to say from a screenshot. The extra space could be the theme overriding a style or it could be the large image settings. That could happen if you have the “Resize proportionally to fit entire image into the specified dimensions and add margins if required.” crop mode set with portrait px dimensions set. That would make a landscape image look tall. You can read more about the Gridder profile image settings in the docs.
I could provide more specific advise if you can share a link to your directory page.
RE: How do I edit these page formatting?
You can use CSS and add the selectors/styles to the theme’s custom CSS area. Or if you really wish to dig in, you can use Custom CSS Override files and Custom Template Override files.
RE: I’d honestly prefer to have the profile just open out in the (+)-
do I have that option or must the profile open on a separate page?
This is how Gridder is designed. To change it you would have to create a custom override file for the card.php template for Gridder.
On the top of every Profile page, I have two bullets … How do I edit these? Can I move them elsewhere on the page?
These are the entry actions, you can disable or change the order on the Connections : Settings admin page under the Display tab.
They can not be moved. If you wish to change the text, you can use the Say What? plugin here’s the link to the tutorial on how to use Say What? to change strings in Connections (or any other plugin/theme).
Gridder does have a few template specific strings which read about in the docs. You still use Say What? but you would use Gridder’s text domain.
RE: Categories aren’t showing up on the Profile pages.
I had to check the code because I thought it did. It does not. I guess no one has ever requested it for Gridder.
RE: How can someone search by Categories? I want this as an option.
I current have no search bar coming up, just submit new entry.
I want them to be able to search by Name, Keyword or Category, is this possible?
This is disabled by default in Gridder because of its design focus is on displaying small teams. The docs cover how to enable the keyword search, category filter and pagination for Gridder.
Hope this helps, let me know.