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  • 09/24/2016 at 10:10 am #393024
    Paul Huss
    Participant

    For some reason the siteshot URL for one of the members only shows half of his homepage on the icon. The rest of them are fine, any idea why this would happen? (see attachment)

    Thanks!

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    09/26/2016 at 11:14 am #393254
    Steven Zahm
    Keymaster

    @ Paul

    First, just a little background on how SiteShot works… it uses a WordPress.org service which visits the page and creates the JPEG image. This service is basically just a simple HTML parser similar to a browser but it is not a real browser. So this means there are limitations. I suspect, that site is using javascript or some more advanced layout techniques which is not compatible with this HTML parser which results in the image that you are seeing. There really is nothing that can be done about this because it is simple due to the way the site was coded. When I personally run across this (I use SiteShot a lot on this site) I take a screenshot from my browser and upload it as the image and display that instead. To do that I set SiteShot as the fallback image. So the uploaded image is used when one is available otherwise it use the WordPress.org service and create the screenshot on demend like normal.

    I hope this helps, let me know!

    11/07/2016 at 6:22 am #398914
    Paul Huss
    Participant

    Hello Steven,

    I have searched the online documentation, but can not find how to set SiteShot as the fallback image… so that the uploaded image is used when one is available.

    And will that include displaying the logo if there are logos uploaded for certain businesses?

    Here is the short codes I am using:

    [connections initial_results='FALSE' image_fallback="siteshot" image="siteshot" image_single="siteshot" str_bio_head="Additional Info" str_bio_show="Additional Information" str_bio_hide="Close"]

    Thank you!

    11/07/2016 at 9:23 am #398920
    Steven Zahm
    Keymaster

    @ Paul

    re: I have searched the online documentation, but can not find how to set SiteShot as the fallback image… so that the uploaded image is used when one is available.

    Looks like your shortcode is correct. It is the image_fallback="siteshot" option.

    However, you have image="siteshot" set which tells the template to use SiteShot instead of the uploaded image. Since cMap displays the logo by default, remove this option. So, the shortcode should be:

    [connections initial_results='FALSE' image_fallback="siteshot" image_single="siteshot" str_bio_head="Additional Info" str_bio_show="Additional Information" str_bio_hide="Close"]

    This will display the logo is one exists and if not use SiteShot.

    Hope that helps!

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