[Steven Zahm]

@ Hilary

By commenting out and adding the variables for the image size (unless you added the support for those variables in the slim-plus.php file) will cause the template to use the dimensions entered for the medium image size on the Connections : Settings admin page under the Images tab. If you want 225x150px image, I suggest you use this code instead:

$entry->getImage( array(
	'image'    => $atts['image'],
	'height'   => 150,
	'width'    => 225,
	'fallback' => array(
		'type'     => $atts['image_fallback'],
		'string'   => $atts['str_image']
		)
	)
);

If you want to adjust which crop mode is used you can use this:

$entry->getImage( array(
	'image'    => $atts['image'],
	'height'   => 150,
	'width'    => 225,
	'zc'       => 3,
	'fallback' => array(
		'type'     => $atts['image_fallback'],
		'string'   => $atts['str_image']
		)
	)
);

Notice the addition of the zc option. You can set this to 0, 1, 2 or 3. It sounds like you want crop mode 3.

I hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Jerry

Ok, yeah, Cloudflare would work very well because, I think, the issue is with the PHP parsing which would be on the server. Not much Cloudflare can do there. That why you need a caching plugin like W3TC.

Rackspace … is that their CloudSite service you’re using? I used them briefly for this site (I moved to a managed VPS) because I thought I could scale as needed. I found that it to be much slower than when it was hosted on Bluehost at their Business Pro service level (which actually worked pretty darned wull in hindsight). The speed was actually even worse when I used W3TC on CloudSites. WP Super Cache seems to work much, much better … at the very least I suggest try switching to it.

You may find this artical enlightening:
http://www.wpsitecare.com/performance-of-7-top-wordpress-hosting-companies-compared/

Looks like Site Ground Go Geek Plan would be quite nice… as well is InMotion Business Hosting Pro for shared hosting.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Allen

Sorry, only a single address can be shown on the map at this time, sorry.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Marco

It is possible, but would have to be custom developed. I do not offer customization services atm but I do have a dev that I can recommend if you are interested in having this developed for you. Just let me know and I’ll ask him to drop by here so you and he can get in contact.

[Steven Zahm]

@ ian1119

Correctly, from the frontend, a user can not change the visibility to a setting in which they do not have view permissions as set on the Connections : Roles admin page. If they did, they would lose the ability to view and therefore the ability to edit their entry. So, basically, they will only be shown the options they have permissions to view. I am aware of this limitation and it will be removed in a future update.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Avi

Yes, with both of those extension installed and activated, your users will be able to edit their entry in the front-end. And you as the admin will be able to edit any entry from the front-end.

After you install these, you simply need to enable the List and Entry actions on the Connections : Settings admin page under the Display tab.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Dani

You need to set the medium image size Ratio setting to crop to eliminate the adding of the margins. Right now it is set to the Fill option. The Crop option will crop and resize proportionally to best fit the specified dimensions, maintaining the aspect ratio whereas the Fill option will resize proportionally to fit entire image into the specified dimensions and add margins if required.

After you make this change, you would have to re-upload any images for the new settings to be applied.

With that said … maybe you might be interested in using a beta of the next version of Connections. I mention it because the entire image handling/processing has been completely overhauled.

Images are now displayed responsively and, and with a compatible device 2x (retina) images will be served. The cool bit here, these images are created, cached and served on demand using the new HTML5 img srcset attribute.

Additionally images size changes are applied on demand. No longer do you have to re-upload images to have image size changes applied.

Lastly, there is a new Fit Crop Mode (formally the Ratio option). The Fit crop mode will resize proportionally adjusting the size of scaled image so there are no margins added. The entered height and width are the maximum the image will be in either direction.

If you would be interested in giving a go, I would need a temp admin account and FTP account so I can install it and fix anything if something goes wrong for any reason … I do consider the code production ready, so it should be completely safe. Just post, privately, the login details here. Please follow-up with a public reply because the plugin I’m using seems to have a bug where I do not get notified of private replies which I have yet to track down and fix.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Dani

Which field titles exactly? I ask because there are two methods one for template specific strings and another for any core strings. The core strings can be changed using the method outlined in this QuickTip. Template specific strings are done with shortcode options. The list of all template specific shortcode options can be found on the Customization Options page under each template.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Roy

Yes, please see this QuickTip for the details.

To change the size … in the code I gave above, change the height and width values to the size you want. If you do, you will have to adjust the CSS to compensate for the larger size. What changes you will need, not sure off-hand but should be easy for you to figure out using the CSS inspector in the browser’s dev tools.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Ron

No problem, glad I could help!

If you have a moment, I would truely appreciate a review as they really do make a difference. Many thanks in advance!
http://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/connections

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