Steven Zahm@ Lynn
Let’s see…
re: I tried to create a custom css template and tried uploading it everywhere noted in your post regarding custom css and uploading it to the server and it never worked. I wound up tweaking the actual code.php page which i know is a big no-no because when it updates I’ll lose all my codes! UGH! where do i actually upload this? to my themes/connections-template/cmap/ and if so, how do i activate it?
Since it sounds like you might use the Gridder template instead, I’ll use that for the instructions.
To make this a bit easier, copy the gridder.css file to this path:
../wp-content/uploads/connections-templates/gridder/
The connections-templates folder will not exist in the uploads folder, so you will have to create it first.
There’s nothing you need to do to activate the custom CSS file, it’ll automatically be used instead.
Now with the file in that folder, you can tweak it as much as you want. Something to note, sometimes, due to server level file caching (if it exists) the change might not take effect immediately.
re: If i can’t figure out how to make all this work i may have you do it for me!
I do offer development services. If you want to put together a mockup or two, I can give you a quote.
re: I know i must be really stupid staring at this for hours upon hours and i’m sure i’m on brain overload, but I can’t for my life figure out how to get the link to view profile to actually go to the profile page, it takes me to …/…/name/xxxxx and says oops nothing is there! What am i missing?
Honestly, you’re fighting your server here. IIS6 is pretty dated.
I see that .htaccess file must have been updated to remove the index.php. That is great as the URL are correct now. But now I think you have a different problem…
It seems like you old site and your new WP installation on running on the same server. I’m guessing that the WP installation is in a folder named hunting-outfitters is that correct? If it is, then the change done to the htaccess file will need to be tweaked to account for that. What is happening is that the server is rerouting the links back to the old site and of course those links do not exist on the old site so that is why you are seeing the not found message.
What change do you need to make to the htaccess to fix that, sorry, I’m not exactly sure since server config is out of my area of expertise. Unfortunately your host support may not be of much assistance either (at least in my experience).
re: search for outfitter by species which is a category, right now i have category black bear hunting…
this will show a list of paid outfitters who offer black bear hunts. Each outfitter pays a certain amount, the more they pay the higher they are at the top, which makes it impossible to have a long list one under the other… they have to be in columns.
Just something to think about right now… by default the list will sort alphabetically. Connections does offer an order_by shortcode option to define other supported sort methods. There a new as of yet undocumented sort method which can be used to sort by a custom field. You will like have to use this to get the sorting your need.
Another thing to note… your old site is not responsive so the number per row stays the same on every device no matter the screen size. The WP and Gridder are both responsive. What this means to you is on devices with smaller screens, you will end up with a list, but that should be desireable otherwise the entries to the right would not be visible to the user unless they finger scroll right.
re: on the list of bear outfitters they can see photo/details (bio)/photo gallery/videos/ etc. of each outfitter based on what the outfitter paid for…
I think… no matter the template you settle on, it’ll need to be customized to get exactly what you want.
re: Also, in the notes section is there a way to embed youtube video channel?
I’m not entirely sure about a “channel” but, yes, Youtube videos can be embedded in the notes. Here’s a FAQ.
re: sorry this should say, they have links to: details (bio) with at least 8 photos (now set as bio/ a link to separate photo gallery which i’ve created and used a shortcode in notes/videos that of which i can’t figure out how to get my shortcode to work in notes and i really need a link that says, go to company listing which will have all the above on it!
I am having trouble visualizing what you want. Maybe you could create a couple mockups to show it?