[Steven Zahm]

@ totojun91

Yes, you can control the background by altering the CSS file.

Make your changes to the cmap.css file found here:
../wp-content/plugins/cmap

Rename it to cmap.min.css.

Upload your changed cmap.min.css to the ../wp-content/plugins/cmap folder overwriting the original

Hope that helps.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Julie

Did you always have your directory on the front page of the site. In “older” versions of Connections and templates this didn’t work because of a feature built into WordPress called canonical redirect. The way this works with the causing plugins that work like Connections troubles. I’m certain I have worked around the issue, but you need the latest Connections, which you do, but you also need the 3.0.x version of Market. This is a free update that can be downloaded from your Purchase History. Please be sure to follow the installation/upgrade instructions carefully as template installation has changed.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Tom

Looks like you’ve come up with a solution that meets your needs. Need anything further?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Carlos

Without a link to you directory, impossible to say. But if it is not working consistently, then there’s either a javascript conflict with the theme or another plugin. One way you can check is to load the page in Chrome, hit the F12 key and click the Console tab. This will show all errors on the page and may lead you to the cause.

Another possibility is Excerpt and Excerpt Plus have two view modes, one when the name link feature is off and one when the name link feature is on. Here’s the description from the Template product page:

Excerpt Plus is the first of our templates to be released with multiple views. What is this, you ask? I’ll try to explain…

Connections has a feature that can be enabled that changes the entry name to a link, this link will take you to a page with just that entry. Excerpt Plus is smart enough to know if you have that feature enabled, which is on by default in Connections 0.7.6 and newer. If you have this feature enabled, the fade-in effect the reveals the rest of the entry’s bio is removed and replaced with a link to that entry. When you click thru to that entry, the entire bio is shown, there’s no need for your visitor to click again to reveal all the full bio.

Is this what you’re experiencing? If it is, that is by design.\

Hope that helps.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Ray

You can use the map_zoom shortcode option. You can set values between 0 and 19, I believe. The higher the number, the more zoomed out the maps will be. The default setting is 13. So setting it to 15 or 16 should do. Hope that helps. Here’s an example:

[connections map_zoom=16]

[Steven Zahm]

@ Steve

Yes, there’s quite a bit of documentation available. The documentation for the core Connections shortcode start on this page. Just click thru to each shortcode to see all the options, nearly all of which have examples.

Each Template and Extension that has shortcodes/options can be found in the top nav listed as “Customization Options” Those pages list all the available options with their defaults and a brief explanation of usage. The cMap template customization options page has been expanded on greatly with working examples of many of the options.

Documentation is continuously being added and updated. For example, I’m working on adding docs for the new SiteShot Extension today.

The same goes for the FAQ/s. The core FAQ/s can be found on this page. Like the customization options, under each Template and Extension, there are pages that have product specific FAQ/s.

All added together, there’s 110 pages dedicated to documentation and 97 current FAQ/s. There’s also several QuickTips which are worth a read.

I hope that helps.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Steve

Connections is multi-site compatible, but has to be activated on each site individually, it can not be network activated.

If you CN_MULTISITE_ENABLED to FALSE in the wp-config.php file in a multisite setup, Connections will use a common database on each subsite in which it is activated. This means all subsites will have the same data instead of a database dedicated/isolated to the subsite. Hope that makes sense. So, it seems you want to run Connections in single-site mode in a multisite setup. If that is the case you would set CN_MULTISITE_ENABLED to FALSE in the wp-config.php file.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Ryan

I’d love to see what you done. Please do share a link. Many thanks!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Roberta

I’ve added, adding Font Awesome support to the core Connections plugin. I *should* get to it this year.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Tim

SMTP is not a requirement of Connections. Connections uses the standard wp_mail function to send email. If email is not being sent, that is due to server configuration and/or email policy limits set by your webhost. If you plan on sending volume email, you will surely need an email server provider and send the email thru them using SMTP.

If you require CSV export, this third party script is available.

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