[Steven Zahm]

@ Ron

Neither change is straightforward as each would require editing the template files.

The easiest solution for the first question is to manually add the link to each entry. Using code, here’s how. Edit the card.php found here:
../wp-content/plugins/connections-tile-plus/

Change this:

$entry->getImage( array(
    'image'    => $atts['image'] ,
    'height'   => $atts['image_height'] ,
    'width'    => $atts['image_width'] ,
    'fallback' => array(
        'type'     => $atts['image_fallback'] ,
        'string'   => $atts['str_image']
        )
    )
);

To this:

echo '<a href="' . $entry->permalink() . '">';

$entry->getImage( array(
    'image'    => $atts['image'] ,
    'height'   => $atts['image_height'] ,
    'width'    => $atts['image_width'] ,
    'fallback' => array(
        'type'     => $atts['image_fallback'] ,
        'string'   => $atts['str_image']
        )
    )
);

echo '</a>';

I think that should do it.

The second question, I did answer for another user, in detail, the other day. Here’s the link. This was for the plain Tile template, not the Plus, but the same instructions would apply.

Hope that helps!