[Steven Zahm]

@ Nina

You can make a backup of the Connections tables using phpMyAdmin or similar tool. Export the Connections tables from the source database. They’re easy to find as they all start with “connections” in their name. You can then import the SQL file into your new database. Sounds like a lot but only takes a few minutes and that is mostly tied up in logging in and out.

You will also have to move the connection_images folder from within the wp-content folder to the new site.

Hoe that helps.

[Steven Zahm]

@ michael

Good to hear! What was the issue?

[Steven Zahm]

@ cori

Yep, that should do it quite nicely.

[Steven Zahm]

@ juan956

The like issue is that the theme or another plugin has a fatal error in its javascript that is prevent other scripts, including Connections, from running or the theme is missing the wp_footer() template tag.

If it is javascript error, you’ll be able to tell by opening the page in Chrome, hitting the F12 key and clicking the Console tab. All errors on the page will be listed there.

If you share a link to your directory, I can provide more precise direction/advice for resolution.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Cori

Ok, sounds like you’ve got it all under control. Looks good.

[Steven Zahm]

@ mitone

Good to hear you got it working.

[Steven Zahm]

@ jeffrey

Looks like you posted while I was writing my response … good to hear you’re liking the results!

Here’s how to change the button colors… add the following to the end of your theme’s style.css file, changing the color values to ones of your choosing:

#cn-form .cn-button-shell.blue {
	background-color: purple !important;
}
#cn-form .cn-button-shell.green {
	background-color: green !important;
}
#cn-form .cn-button-shell.red {
	background-color: red !important;
}

[Steven Zahm]

@ Cori

Open the card.php file found here:
../wp-content/plugins/excertp-plus/

Change this:

$entry->getImage( array(
	'image'    => 'photo' ,
	'height'   => 120 ,
	'width'    => 100 ,
	'fallback' => array(
		'type'     => 'block' ,
		'string'   => 'No Photo Available'
		)
	)
);

To this:

$entry->getImage( array(
	'image'    => 'photo' ,
	'height'   => 241 ,
	'width'    => 160 ,
	'fallback' => array(
		'type'     => 'block' ,
		'string'   => 'No Photo Available'
		)
	)
);

Now open the excert-plus.css file and change this:

#cn-excerpt-plus .cn-right {
	margin: 0 0 0 120px !important;
}

To this:

#cn-excerpt-plus .cn-right {
	margin: 0 0 0 180px !important;
}

You might also have to tweak the min-height value in this:

#cn-excerpt-plus .cn-entry {
	font-size: 12px !important;
  	clear: both;
	position: relative;
	line-height: 18px !important;
	min-height: 160px;
}

Save the excerpt=plus.css file, duplicate it and name the duplicate to excerpt-plus.min.css.

Upload all the modified files overwriting the originals.

Of course, make a backup first.

Hope that helps.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Andreu

The only time the image will “deform” is if you have the image crop setting to none. The image will be scaled to fit both of the entered dimensions. Choosing crop will scale the image to the shortest dimension of the uploaded image and then crop off the excess image in the largest dimension in order to meet the entered dimensions while maintaining the image ratio. I believe you want to choose the fill option. That will scale the largest dimension of the uploaded image to fit the entered dimensions and then fill in with white the shortest dimension of the uploaded image to meet the entered dimensions while maintaining the image ratio. This will guarantee the entire image is shown and in proportion.

Hope that helps.

[Steven Zahm]

@ jeffrey

I’ve read thru this a few times and I have to admit I’m not certain I follow completely but I think the method of using categories with child categories is the way to go. So, any of the templates that have a category drop down should do the trick. cMap tends to be the most popular because it also include a map.

Of note, there is a beta feature built-in to all the template with a category dropdown; enable_category_multi_select=TRUE. This option turns the category selection in to a multiselect. What this means is you users could select any arbitrary number of categories and the result would be the entries would have to be in all of the selected categories. I mention it because this options seems like it would be a good fit for what you want to accomplish.

Could you explain more about output being output via SiteShot? That extension only create a thumbnail of a website and show it instead of the photo/logo. It doesn’t do any redirecting or anything.

Yep, a shortcode generator is on the to do list with literally a couple 100 other improvements. I’ve been working on Connections for over 6 years now and my plans are to definitely to keep on going and improving into the foreseeable future.

Here’s the doc page for core shortcode options that’ll work with any template.

Here’s the doc page for the cMap shortcode options. A large majority of the options work with all the premium templates. You can see which one precisely by referring to each templates “Customization Options” page.

Hope that helps!

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