[Karelle Scharff]

Steven,

Sorry to be a pest but I have another question. I am using a second iteration of Connections at http://www.homeopathyschool.dreamhosters.com/the-faculty/

It’s working great, except that I’ve added a youtube video link to the bio, and I wanted it to appear in a popover lightbox. I’ve installed a plugin called blueimp lightbox that directs me to add \type=”text/html” data-youtube=”zi4CIXpx7Bg(my video’s code)” data-gallery\ to the link.

I tried that and when I go to update, it deletes that additional information and the link takes one to the youtube site.

Is there a way to make this work? Is there a different way to make the youtube video appear in a lightbox?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Karelle

The bio and notes fields strip tags for security. What you’ll need is a plugin that can create a lightbox effect using a shortcode. I’ve never tested doing something like this but, maybe this plugin will do the trick.

Give it a try and please let me know if it works out. I’ll add it as a FAQ, howto or something.

[Karelle]

Hey Steven,

Thanks! That plugin worked great! Well mostly. Very easy to use, but there is one listing for which the shortcode shows in the unexpanded state (shouldn’t show at all), and the linked anchor text appears in the expanded state (correct behavior). I entered the information in exactly the same way, in the text editor, not the visual editor, three times. See http://www.homeopathyschool.dreamhosters.com/the-faculty/

I don’t see the shortcode in the view-source, matter of fact I see nothing different in the entry at all, but the error shows up on both my computers in several browsers.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Karelle

The issue is the number of words in the bio. The shortcode seems to be right on the boundary for the excerpt cutoff. If you can add another short sentence and I’m certain it fix the issue and function like the rest.

I think your seeing this because of a bug … I think I’m stripping the shortcode string from the excerpted text too late. I’ve logged it as a possible bug so I’ll definitely dig into it deeper.

Let me know if the “fix” works.

[Karelle]

That worked! Thanks, Steven!

[Karelle]

Steven,

So after all that, the client wants all the text to show as well as the video link (via shortcode), without the readmore feature, in the list (ie not in a separate page). Most of the listings on the faculty page (http://www.homeopathyschool.dreamhosters.com/the-faculty/) are pretty short, not really much in the read mores anyway.

How can I get this to display open, without the fade open (this is excerpt-plus)?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Karelle

The only way to do that is to edit the template.

You need to edit the card.php file found here:
../wp-content/plugins/excerpt-plus/

Look for this line”
echo '<div class="cn-excerpt" id="cn-excerpt-' , $uuid , '">';

Change it to this:
echo '<div class="cn-hide" id="cn-excerpt-' , $uuid , '">';

Look for this line:
echo '<div class="cn-detail cn-hide" id="cn-detail-' , $uuid , '">';

Change it to this:
echo '<div class="cn-detail" id="cn-detail-' , $uuid , '">';

If I read my own code correctly, that should do it.

[Karelle Scharff]

PERFECT! Here’s hoping they don’t change their minds again, though I did save the original file.

Looking to the future – how often do you upgrade these templates? If and when you do, would you be changing the card.php file? Would I be able to sub this edited file for a new one?

It is on my short list to learn to write php, and each time I have to do editing like this I learn a little more.

[Karelle Scharff]

Well, not actually perfect…

How do I take off the accordion link on the name? I hid with sprite and background with css but need to remove the accordion function.

[Steven Zahm]

Change this line:

echo '<h3 class="cn-accordion-item" id="cn-accordion-item-' , $uuid , '" data-uuid="' , $uuid , '"' , ' style="border-bottom: ' , $atts['color'] , ' 1px solid; color:' , $atts['color'] , ';"><span class="cn-sprite" id="cn-toggle-' , $uuid , '" style="background-color: ' , $atts['color'] , ';"></span>' , $entry->getNameBlock( array( 'format' => $atts['name_format'], 'link' => $atts['link'] ) ) , '</h3>';

To this:

echo '<h3 id="cn-accordion-item-' , $uuid , '" data-uuid="' , $uuid , '"' , ' style="border-bottom: ' , $atts['color'] , ' 1px solid; color:' , $atts['color'] , ';"><span class="cn-sprite" id="cn-toggle-' , $uuid , '" style="background-color: ' , $atts['color'] , ';"></span>' , $entry->getNameBlock( array( 'format' => $atts['name_format'], 'link' => $atts['link'] ) ) , '</h3>';

That should do it.

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