[Steven Zahm]

@ Asif

Great to hear you figured it out!

[Steven Zahm]

Sorry, no Connections does not accept payments for listings. I do not plan on adding such features. I recommend you use a membership plugin like Restrict Content Pro to manage membership payments and renewals. This greatly increases your ability to monetize your site where a directory is just one benefit of the user’s membership. There are other directory plugins which do integrate payments, but then you lock yourself into only being able to monetize your directory making it very difficult to expand member benefits.

[Steven Zahm]

@ James

Do you receive an error message? What happens exactly when you add an image to an entry?

Can you upload images to the WordPress Media Library?

[Steven Zahm]

Great to hear!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Jennifer

RE: I’ve never had issues with your plugin before.

Oh, I wanted to add, this is not an issue with Connections, but the update process with WordPress. I suspect you might be exhausting the resources allocated to PHP. Check the PHP memory limit and increase it if needed. I recommend at least 128MB for a WordPress installation. Also check the PHP execution limit. I recommend 300. Here’s a link to a tutorial on how to increase the PHP execution limit.

Hope this helps, let me know.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Jennifer

RE: I got the same ‘down for maintenance’ message.

That is the message WordPress puts up while it is updating a theme, plugin or itself.

RE: Then, it seems to have updated and returned to normal.

This sounds as like WordPress detected the issue and installed the backup of the previous version. It makes this backup before installing a new version of a plugin. I suspect you still see the notice to upgrade Connections, correct?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Jennifer

Looks like WordPress failed to completely update Connections. You’ll have to delete and reinsitall it. You data is safe.

Hope this helps! Let me know.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Diane

RE: So even though I am “customizing” an Individual cMap template it is still a global change?

Yes, you are customizing the cMap template when using the Customizer. It does not matter how many different pages you use it on, it is still the cMap template.

Another way to frame it… think of it as your theme. You have many posts and pages, when you use its Customizer, it affects all the posts and pages, not just one page excluding page specific options the theme may add to an individual page of course.

RE: I should specify the label changes using cnt_cmap

That would still be a global change of the string.

RE: str_work_phone="Phone"

This is what I was talking about in my previous reply… you can use shortcodes to affect each instance of the template. This list of available option are found in that link I gave.

So, to change the category label you would use the str_category_label shortcode option. Example:

[connections template="cmap" category=291 enable_category_by_root_parent='TRUE' str_work_phone="Phone" show_alphaindex='TRUE' repeat_alphaindex='TRUE' str_category_label='Specialty: ']

Hope this helps!

• This reply was modified 8 years, 5 months ago by Steven Zahm.

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@ Diane

Which strings are you changing and with what process? String changes are global when using the cMap template Customizer or when using Say What?, that is how it works.

cMap does have few strings which are template specific and can be controlled via shortcode options to change them on a per instance case. Here’s the instructions to change cMap strings with shortcode options. Scroll down a little, you see a list and examples of the strings that an be set at the shortcode level in cMap.

Hope this helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Mark

It is the theme applying an custom style to pagination links which is conflicting with Connections. Add the following to the theme’s custom CSS area:

#cn-page-nav .page-numbers:after {
    display: none   
}

That should fix it. Hope that helps!

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