Reply To: siteshot returns 404 etc.

05/21/2018 at 9:16 am #463312
Steven Zahm
Keymaster

@ Andy

RE: Please can you explain to me how “to take the screen capture yourself and add it to the entry”?

There are many ways to take a screenshot. I personally use Snagit. Though, that app cost money. There are many freely available solutions. After a quick web search, it seems Windows 10 even has one built in now.

After you take a screenshot you would edit the entry and upload the screenshot as the photo image for the entry.

RE: Is there a way to override the standard cMap use of siteshot by exception?

You need to edit the [connections] shortcode to make SiteShot the fallback image vs the primary image. For the cMap template you would use this shortcode.

[connections image=photo image_fallback=siteshot]

or add image=photo image_fallback=siteshot to an existing shortcode.

This will force that instance of the of the shortcode with cMap to display the photo image if there is one and if there is not, then will display the SiteShot image.

I would only do this for the shortcode instances where there is a problematic SiteShot website capture.

RE: So in the examples of the three problem URLs, use a logo image instead of the siteshot?

My example above was to upload to the entry’s photo image. The same can be done using the entry’s logo image too.

Just upload the screenshot as the logo image. Add this to the shortcode instead, image_fallback=siteshot. In this case the image option is not required since the default image to display is the logo.

Hope I’ve made this clear enough to follow and is helpful. Let me know.