[Pascal Chavaillaz]

Hello Steven, I finally purchased the Pro Pack and now trying to get it to work the way I’d like. First of all, let me state that I’m a real beginner when it comes to WP and even more beginner with Connections. But I’m willing to learn ;-) (http://www.villars-basket.ch/wpcontacts)

1. How can I get Slim Plus to display things with colors I’d like ? I have noticed there is a color tag for Shortcode, but it seems to only affect names… Are the others colors coming from WP selected theme ?
2. have tried to add some options to Shortcode (address formatting) but it doesn’t seem to work at all as it doesn’t change anything. What am I missing
3. In Connections categories, one can define a name, a “slug” and then there is free HTML editor at the bottom. What is this one used for ? (see attached screenshot)

Thanks for help and sorry for silly questions…

Cheers
Pascal

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[Steven Zahm]

@ Pascal

re: How can I get Slim Plus to display things with colors I’d like ? I have noticed there is a color tag for Shortcode, but it seems to only affect names… Are the others colors coming from WP selected theme ?

Yes, they are coming from the theme. The color shortcode only controls the name, underline and the background color for the drop arrow. Right now when I visit your site, the area behind the template is grey. This seems to be some type of setting on the page when you added it… my best guess.

re: have tried to add some options to Shortcode (address formatting) but it doesn’t seem to work at all as it doesn’t change anything. What am I missing

What is the change you are trying to make? What is the exact shortcode you are using? PLease copy/paste it in a reply.

A quick tip, do not copy paste the shortcode options and values into the WP post editor. That will have unintended consequences unless pasted in the Text tab. I suggest manually typing them.

**re: In Connections categories, one can define a name, a “slug” and then there is free HTML editor at the bottom. What is this one used for ? **

Go to the Connections : Settings admin page, click the Display tab and enable the Category Description option. Now when you select the category from the drop down, whatever is typed in that HTML box will be displayed above the entries within that category.

Hope that helps! Let me know.

[Pascal Chavaillaz]

Thanks for Feedback Steven.
I will be working on the template colors problem.

The shortcode I’m using is :

[connections color='#B2CADC' addr_format='%label% %line1% %line2%
%line3%, %zipcode% %city%]

But I’m guessing the Slimplus CSS is not allowing me to change address format display, right ?

I’m also getting a “404” when I click on the “Afficher Tout” (view all) on top of my directory. Is there something I forgot to setup ?

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[Steven Zahm]

@ Pascal

re: But I’m guessing the Slimplus CSS is not allowing me to change address format display, right ?

No, Slim Plus allows the use of the addr_format shortcode option. You missing the end quote, after %city% you should have a quote '.

re: I’m also getting a “404” when I click on the “Afficher Tout” (view all) on top of my directory. Is there something I forgot to setup ?

This is due to a WordPress bug. When query vars are used on the front page, WordPress routes the request to the “blog” page instead of back to the home page. I do have code that attempts to work around this but does not work in all instances. I’ll be releasing another bug fix release today that I hope will further work around this so it might fix it for you since the category filtering works for you. The only real solution is not to use Connections on the same page that is set as the WordPress static front page.

Hope that helps. Let me know.

[Pascal Chavaillaz]

Thanks Steven,

The shortcode missing ‘ did do the job of inverting ZIP and locality, but it still does put them together on a second line while I wanted it to be displayed after street in line1. (actually, I still have to find out how this would look if I have values in line 2 and line 3!). That’s in the CSS then, is it ?

I have changed WP static page and the search all works now ! Though I’d really prefer to have the directory as first page displayed…Will wait and try your fix.

Thanks for very quick and efficient feedback and sorry for beginner “dumb” questions

[Steven Zahm]

@ Pascal

re: That’s in the CSS then, is it ?

Yes. Add the following to the theme’s custom CSS area to make it display inline.

#cn-slim-plus span.adr span.street-address {
  display: inline !important;
}

re: I have changed WP static page and the search all works now ! Though I’d really prefer to have the directory as first page displayed…Will wait and try your fix.

Looking at you site. Even changing the page will not work because the page links contain index.php the rewrite rules in WordPress should be removing this. Having that in the links will break Connections permalinks. This is typically caused by a server level config. You’ll likely have to contact your host to resolve this.

Hope that helps!

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