[Steve Christian]

Hi Steve,

I’ve created the following:

mytheme/connections-templates/cmap/cmap-custom.css

This ONLY works if I add ‘!important’ to the end of each property. This is becasue the cmap-min.css file is taking priority. Is this correct?

For example:

#cn-cmap .cn-entry
{
border-radius: 0 !important;
box-shadow: 0 !important
border: 1px solid #D3D3D3;
font-size: 12px;
margin: 10px 4px;
padding: 12px;
position: relative;
background: #ffffff !important;
}

Both border-radius, box-shadow and background properties implement on the site, but everthing else uses cmap-min.css propertites. Any suggestions?

Thanks
Steve

[Steven Zahm]

@ Steve

The custom is loaded as a dependency of the core CSS file so it will be loaded after the core CSS and override it’s properties. If you want to customize #cn-cmap .cn-entry, I suggest copying it from the core file and then changing the values to suit like so:

#cn-cmap .cn-entry {
    -webkit-border-radius: 0;
    -moz-border-radius: 0;
    border-radius: 0;
    -webkit-box-shadow: 0;
    -moz-box-shadow: 0p;
    box-shadow: none;
    background: none;
    border: none;
    font-size: 12px;
    margin: 10px 4px;
    padding: 12px;
    position: relative;
}

The above will deal with everything except the background color/gradient. That CSS is very complex and is very difficult to override completely. To adjust those, I built in two shortcode options for cMap that allows it to be very easily configured, see this doc page for cMap.

Hope that helps!

[Steve Christian]

Thanks for this Steve. Can I just clarify the name of the core css file for cmap.

Thanks
Steve

[Steve Christian]

I’ve tried that. Placing the css into cmap-custom.css, but it still only works if I place !important at the end of each line. I’ve added a file that shows what is happening; CSS priorities on right hand of screen.

Thanks
Steve

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[Steven Zahm]

@ Steve

The files should be cmap-custom.css.

I see you have cMap 3.0.3 installed, that could be the issue, please update to 4.0. Quick question, you do have not moved the core min CSS file to any other folder have you? Meaning it is in the cMap plugin folder, right? Attached a screen of the page source showing the sections where all the CSS files are loaded.

[Steve Christian]

Hi Steve

I’ll upload and see if that makes any difference…I’ll get back to.

Thanks
Steve

[Steve Christian]

Hi Steve,

Upgraded to cmap 4.0. Seems to be working fine now! Thanks. Although I can’t find the shortcode for the website address format. It seems to be missing form the short code list; unless I’m missing something. Which means I can’t remove the %label% ‘Website:’ from in front of the website address. I tried ‘link_format’ but that didn’t appear to work. Andy suggestions?

I assumed all the plugins would just update automatically?

Thanks
Steve

[Steven Zahm]

@ Steve

Good to hear! The difference between cMap 3.x and 4.x is that Connections is responsible for loading CSS files and such now so the dependencies can be loaded in the proper order. cMap 3.x loaded it own files so there’s no way to control load order. Hope that makes sense.

The shortcode option is link_format. I just test it and it does work. Example:
`[connections page_limit=20 link_format='%label%%separator% %title%']

Before Connections >= 0.8 and the latest versions of the template, no, there were no in-admin updates. Now there are, to receive notification of cMap updates, make sure to add your support license key on the Connections : Settings admin page under the Licenses tab. After you do, you’ll be notified every time I release an update.

Hope that helps!

If I have not asked… If you have a moment, I would truly appreciate a review as they really do make a difference. Many thanks in advance!
http://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/connections

[Steve Christian]

Hi Steve,

Cmap installed and link_format working; I guessed ‘link_format’ but got the name of the token wrong when guessing. However, link_format does not appear on the Cmap shortcode options page.

I just checked my email receipt and there is no support license. I bought the Pro Pack and my receipt ID is 5be208276eb08169e98fa1fc4af9918b. This would explain why I’ve not been getting updates.

I’ll happily do a review Steve. This is a great plugin…I feel Connections gets more exciting the more you learn about how it works…it truly is flexible and I keep getting more and more ideas around how I can use it…oh yeah…the support is excellent too! Well done! This isn’t the review just wanted to offer that back to you personally.

Warm regards
Steve

[Steven Zahm]

@ Steve

Yeah, sorry, the cMap shortcode doc page hasn’t been updated yet.

Your purchase was before the license key system was enabled. Because of this, you can get free manual updates. I can generate the license keys for you so you can receive in-admin updates but then you’ll have to renew them annually in order to continue receiving updates manual or in-admin. The better deal for you is to keep things they way they are and just manually check for and apply updates. But if you wish to have in-admin updates, I can generate the the key for you just let me know.

Thanks for the kind words and for taking the time to leave a review!

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