[Steven Zahm]

@ Patrick

I just went thru the process myself, but used the core Profile template instead of Card (I already had a plugin duplicated of Card):

• Move the profile folder from ../connections/templates/ to ../wp-content/plugins/
• Change the folder name from profile to connections-profile. (Not necessary)
• Open the profile.php file and renamed all instances of the CN_Profile_Template class to myCN_Profile_Template.
• Change the slug from profile to myprofile.
• Activated the template on the Plugins admin page.
• Navigated to the Connections Template page and tested the Customizer. It worked as expected.
• Because I moved the profile folder originally, the original Profile was no longer running at the same time so I copied a duplicate of the original back to the templates folder so both Profile templates exists.
• I tested Customizer on both instances of Profile and they functioned independently of each other as they should.

So, I guess my advice would be to take a step back. Archive your duplicate and make sure the original Card template is in fact original with no changes (that’s important) and that is in in the ../connections/templates/ folder.

Then, follow my steps above which are basically the same as the tutorial. I need to add the instruction to change the slug.

The only other thing you’ll have to do which I did not is change the Customizer line from require_once CN_PATH . 'templates/card/class.customizer.php'; to require_once plugin_dir_path( FILE ) . 'class.customizer.php'; The next update to Connections will include that change so it will no longer be necessary.

Hope this helps, let me know how it goes.