Absolutely! You can switch templates as often as you wish, your entries will be intact. Think of templates for Connections like themes for WordPress. The primary purpose of a WordPress theme is to change the visual style of your site. The primary purpose of Connections’ templates, just like WordPress themes, is to change the visual …
The profile display mode in Excerpt Plus can be enabled by using the link shortcode option that these templates enable. Here’s an example shortcode that shows how to use this option: By default, the profile display mode will only show the bio, no other entry details. This default may change in future versions of these …
This is likely being caused by the theme including a “buggy”, in my opinion, HTML5 shim script. The purpose of these shim scripts is to enable HTML5 features in browsers that do not support them. They work pretty well … but, there seems to be a bug in this shim script. When you click on a …
Here are a couple of sample shortcodes to show you how:
There are primarily two reasons this issue occurs: When copy-pasting the shortcode into a page or post while using the rich text editor (the Visual tab), HTML tags will also be pasted. The solution is to paste the shortcode into the HTML editor (the HTML tab) or use the “Paste as Plain Text” button in …
I get the following error, what does it mean? The package could not be installed. The theme is missing the style.css stylesheet. If you are trying to install a Connections template as a theme you will receive this error. Connections templates must be installed as a plugin. Please following the template installation instructions found here: …
The templates Excerpt Plus, Excerpt, Slim Plus and Slim require a specific image size and can not be changed (changing the images settings in the admin will not have an affect). These templates will automatically create images from the original source image that are 120px × 100px with a center crop. If you require a specific …
To embed videos in to the bio and notes field you must use the WordPress /* * Example 1 * Embed a YouTube video */ [embed]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs-8-cWFbOU[/embed]/* * Example 1 * Embed a YouTube video */ [embed]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs-8-cWFbOU[/embed] If you would like to embed a video that pops using a lightbox effect, use the WP Video Lightbox …
Every string in a template can be customized to suit your specific needs. This can be done by setting template-enabled shortcode options. These string shortcode options all begin with “str_”. Every template differs on what strings are available to be customized; please refer to the template’s documentation [currently under construction] to learn more. But here …
Explaining how the addr_format shortcode option works is difficult, so I will provide some examples. First, some background. The addr_format option accepts only a few specific tokens.Tokens are the % symbols, and the word between, for example, %label%, is a token. The valid tokens for the addr_format option are: When processing the display of the …