[Cédric SCHMITT]

Hello,

I just bought your plugin, and find it really awesome. You did a great job, just one little thing, it’s hard do understand everything when non english and bad a it…, i think your documentation lack a few info, like how does the single page of the directory work or can be customized.
By “single page of directory”, i mean when you click on the name and you get to the page with more details, as biography and notes. Don’t know how to call it..

That why i’d like to ask you a few things :

– the websites aren’t showing in this “single page”, how can i display them ?
– on the “global directory”, only 1 website link is shown, how can i display all of them ?
– in the “single page” there is the “no picture found” shown, even if i used the show_image=False, should i use css to hide this, or there is another way ?

I am making this directory for a federation that regroup 70+ associations.
Each association doesn’t have a logo, i’d like le logo to be shown when there is one, but when no logo, i’d like it to look the same when using the “show_image=False” shortcode, is it possible ?

And on last, i’d like that each association could add attached files (.pdf), is there a way to do that ? maybe using custom fields ?

Thanks for your help, and sorry if i’m not really understandable..

[Steven Zahm]

@ Cédric

You can do everything you want but even as flexible as Connections is with its large number of shortcode options for tweaking, there are limitation what can be done with those shortcode options.

To make the changes you want you need to edit eh card-single.php file, so you would need to know some basic PHP and be comfortable making these changes. The file can be found here:
../wp-content/plugins/connections-tile-plus/

For the image, you would change this:

<?php

$entry->getImage( array(
	'image'    => $atts['image_single'] ,
	'height'   => $atts['image_single_height'] ,
	'width'    => $atts['image_single_width'] ,
	'fallback' => array(
		'type'     => $atts['image_single_fallback'] ,
		'string'   => $atts['str_image']
		)
	)
);

?>

to this:

<?php

$entry->getImage( array(
	'image'    => $atts['image_single'] ,
	'height'   => $atts['image_single_height'] ,
	'width'    => $atts['image_single_width'] ,
	'fallback' => array(
		'type'     => 'none',
		'string'   => $atts['str_image']
		)
	)
);

?>

To add the logo, you would add this where you want the logo to be displayed:

<?php

$entry->getImage( array(
	'image'    => 'logo',
	'height'   => $atts['image_single_height'] ,
	'width'    => $atts['image_single_width'] ,
	'fallback' => array(
		'type'     => 'none',
		'string'   => $atts['str_image']
		)
	)
);

?>

If you edit the card-single.php file, I highly suggest you follow the method outlined in this QuickTip so your changes are update safe.

For PDF upload, that is possible, but very complex. The best way to go would be to create a new extension to handle the PDF upload and store the filename and path to the entry meta.

I hope that helps!

[Cédric SCHMITT]

Yeah that’s help,
For the minor changes i can handle it.
However, for the attached files field, guess will pass on this idea.

Thank’s for your fast reply !

[Cédric SCHMITT]

Hello,

sorry to bother again, but can’t find why the website links arn’t displayed in the single entry.
I checked the single-card.php file, thought it was something i should add, but there is already a line calling the links block
if ( $atts['show_links'] ) $entry->getLinkBlock( array( 'format' => $atts['link_format'], 'type' => $atts['link_types'] ) );

I looked again and again, but it seems there is no options in the admin panel that disable links in single entry.
Is there something else ?

Thx

[Steven Zahm]

@ Cédric

You have two options. One is to add show_link='true' to the shortcode. If you use this method, the links will show on both the ‘card.phpand the 'card-single.php. If you only wish them to be displayed on the card-single.php change this line:

if ( $atts['show_links'] ) $entry->getLinkBlock( array( 'format' => $atts['link_format'], 'type' => $atts['link_types'] ) );

to this:

$entry->getLinkBlock( array( 'format' => $atts['link_format'], 'type' => $atts['link_types'] ) );

That’ll do the trick.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Cédric

I forgot to add…

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

[Cédric SCHMITT]

Thanks again for your help.
For sure, will make a review in a few. You deserve it, with this nice plugin a support !
Just as i told, a really little minus for your documentation.
For exemple, the show_link attribute isn’t written in the title plus customization.
You might be overflowed with support questions by noobs like me for easy things that can be made alone :).

For eventual readers of this topic, steven made a little mistake, the shortcode should be written show_links=TRUE

[Steven Zahm]

@ Cédric

Thank for letting me know I was missing the show_links option on the doc page! I just added it.

Also, many thanks for taking the time to leave a review!

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