[Steven Zahm]

@ Ken

I just emailed you, please let know if you do not receive it.

[Steven Zahm]

@ ciba

Use either Blog or Website link type as your second link, set the URL/address to the PDF and set the Title to something like “Download PDF”. For the Website, make the Title something like “Visit Website” now use this shortcode to tell cMap to alter the way links are displayed:
[connections link_format='%title%']

The links will now be displayed with just the Title, dropping the label type and the colon separator. The title will be the link to the URL/address.

Hope that helps.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Cara-Dee

Well, you could probably do this by modifying for Bio Entry Card that comes with Connections as that would likely make a better base (stylistically), unless, you need searching and category filtering; then, yes, you should use cMap.

The skills needed. You would need to CSS, HTML and PHP.

To show the categories, you would use this function:

$entry->getCategoryBlock( array( 'label' => 'Genre', 'separator' => ', ', 'before' => '<span>', 'after' => '</span>' ) );

I suggest using the address for the location rather than category. For example, perhaps use the line 3, city or state field; whichever is more semantically correct. The you could customize the output of the address using this function:

$entry->getAddressBlock( array( 'format' => '%city%' ) );

Assuming you decide to use the city field.

The “Click to view full band profile.” link can be made with this function:

cnURL::permalink( array(
		'type'       => 'name',
		'slug'       => $entry->getSlug(),
		'title'      => $entry->getName(),
		'text'       => 'Click to view full band profile.',
		'home_id'    => $entry->directoryHome['page_id'],
		'force_home' => $entry->directoryHome['force_home'],
	)
);

The “Contact Band” link, you can use the Link field to add a Link. Use this function:
$entry->getLinkBlock();

Just enter the URL for the contact web address and then enter “Contact Band” for the Title.

Hope that helps.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Mick

You need to update Slim to the latest version. You can download it from your purchase history. Template installation has changed significantly since you purchase Slim. Please carefully follow the update installation instructions.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Joshua

Ok, Add the following to the end of the theme’s styles.css file:

#cn-cmap h3:after {
	border: none;
}

That fix up the lines. The theme is applying borders the h3 headers using the after pseudo class.

That should fix it up nicely.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Ken

Glad that solved the problem! I’d still like to see if I can figure out why it did not work for you. Is it possible to get a copy of your theme so I can duplicate the issue?

[Steven Zahm]

@ James

Yes, it’ll show up as an update on the Plugins admin page. I didn’t make Friday — I have one more bug to track down and fix so I plan on getting that finished today.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Ken

Great to hear!

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

[Steven Zahm]

@ Mike

On search, I answered you question in the other post.

The image quality is based entirely on the uploaded image and the type of scaling required to make it fit. I see you have the image set to 375x250px. So you would pre-scale and crop to that size [or same ratio as 375x250px, see below for math to figure out the ratio at the end of the post].

I see you are using the cMap template, you can use the image instead of the logo by using the following shortcode:

[connections image='photo' tray_image='none' str_image='No Photo Available']

That will tell cMap to use the image instead of the logo and not to put the photo in the bio content tray.

Hope that helps!

Image Ratio:
Here’s the math…

( width / height ) * new-height = new-width

OR

( height / width ) * new-width = new-height

[Steven Zahm]

@ Mike

The first thing you should try is to configure the search so it can give you results more to you liking. This can be done on the Connections : Settings admin page under the Search tab. The first thing you should try is disabling the Keyword search option and use only the FULLTEXT searching. If your setup supports this, it can give far better results. If your database does not support FULLTEXT, you’ll get no results when performing a search and unfortunately, you’ll have to use the keyword search feature, sort of. Most of the time, you can make changes to the database to enable FULLTEXT. Maybe your host can make the change for you, if not, here’s a link to a Google search that should get you on your way:

https://www.google.com/#q=phpmyadmin+fulltext

As for searching just St, that is a database issue, one I can do nothing about. Most databases are configured to require 3–4 characters for a search.

I hope that helps!

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