[Steven Zahm]

@ Eric

Have you install the Say What plugin and change the string that way?

What is the exact shortcode in use on the page? Are you perhaps using the shortcode option to change the label?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Marion

You would need the Enhanced Categories extension.

The Circled template does not display the categories. If you decide to purchase Enhanced Categories and renew your Circled license, I would be willing to issue an update to Circled which included an option to display the categories on the profile page of the entry.

Hope this helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Eric

Sounds like you may have activated Connections while the site was in English…

Navigate to the Connections Settings admin page and click the Fieldset Configuration tab.

Scroll down to the Address Types options.

Change the labels as desired.

Save the changes.

Hope this helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ bebe

Edit the page and remove image="siteshot" from the shortcode.

Then you can use the cMap template Customizer to configure the image. Navigate to the Connections : Templates admin page and click the Customize button. The page will reload with the Customizer on the left and a preview on the right.

Click the back arrow in the upper left of the Customizer and then click the Image panel to configure the image.

Click the back arrow again and then click the Bio Image panel and configure that image.

Now click an entry name in the preview. It does not matter which. The preview will refresh displaying the single entry /detail/profile view.

Repeat the two steps for configuring both images. This need repeated because each view of the template is configured independently.

Publish you changes and exit.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Ben

Perhaps the Widget Pack is the solution too? Create a category for featured. The use the Entry List widget to list on the featured entry category.

The limiting fact would be the widget only displays minimal info such as the name and logo (or photo).

[Steven Zahm]

@ Ben

You could use the Enhance Categories extension. It does have a shortcode which can be used to place it on a separate page. You configure it so it does not display above the directory and then use its home_id option to set the page ID of the directory so the links resolve correctly. If you choose this route, you should disable the category filter on the cMap template.

For search, you could use the Search widget from the Widget Pack. The Widget Pack adds a feature which make it so you can use the included widgets as shortcodes.

So, you could add that above the Enhance categories shortcode.

Hope this has thoroughly answered your questions!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Chris

RE: is there anyway to use some of the addons for testing to make sure they will do what I am trying to do – BEFORE buying them?

Sorry, no, there is not.

My suggestion, which I believe will answer many of your questions, since the core Connections plugin is free and quite capable on its own, install it and give it a try. Add a dozen entry entries to get a feel for it.

I’ll try to answer the rest of your questions.

RE: Since I will want the members to be able to update their own profile, I know that Link Extension is one of them (from a previous question on the forum).

Yes, you will need at least the Link extension for this and optionally the Form extension.

RE: I am unsure of which addon would be best suited to help format the membership listing – we have well over 100 club members, so something with a VERY basic information (perhaps only name a profile pic) with a link for “detailed information” to expand information for that person.

Any one of the premium templates will do. I suggest the cMap template since it support point and click customization vs. the other need their options set via shortcode option. The later is not that hard, but some found it confusing. If you’ve used WP shortcode before then it should be no issue. So Perhaps the Circled template would be a good choice. Really, it simply comes down to which one you like visually.

RE: Our club already uses “ZeeMaps” for people to voluntarily put a pin in a google map. Is there a addon that will use this (or something similar)?

Sorry, no.

RE: If something requires customization (something I am seeing alot in other threads), is there someone that can help us with that?

I do provide customization services.

RE: I assume there is a way to customize what kind of fields a directory entry will have, right? For example, Last Name (for sorting), Display Name (eg. Husband & Wife Lastname), address, his cell #, her cell #, his email, her email, etc etc etc…

Here would be an example where using Connections would have helped. You have lots of field available. If you don’t use them, they do not display. Doesn’t makes sense to show something that is empty, right ;)

If you’ve installed Connections, take a look at the Fieldset Configuration options.

Connections also supports custom fields, these require custom coding. You can see what is involved in this tutorial on how to add a custom text field.

RE: I just saw you have bundles. Doing the single site extension pack might be the best way to make sure I just have them all

Yes the Extension Pack and a template would be the way to go. But like I said, you should invest some time into using Connections first. That way you can make sure it fits before making a purchase.

Hope I have answered your questions thoroughly.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Olaf

RE: The fix did help, but it was lost after I updated the plugin.

The primary change in the update was the exact same change made to your site. I literally copy/pasted it from your site into the update. I’d like to see it again. Could you please change it back?

RE: it’d be great if the plugin would support an opacity setting in the custom colour settings, so we can set the background to ‘transparent’.

Set the TOC background color to the same color as your background which is #375366. Same effect as transparency ;)

[Steven Zahm]

@ Kitty

RE: it appears that this part massively slows my site down

Interesting because that code is far, far, more “lighter” than the $entry->getImage(... block of code. The later has to check for an existing image of the correct size and scale, if one is not found open the original image and process it. Which is quite a bit of work. The $entry->getOriginalImageURL('logo'); simply returns the file name of the image being requested. That info is already available whether or not any image code is used.

RE: The other thing is that the listings that don’t have an image added show a broken image, so the conditional part is not working I guess?

Play with the conditional until it works correctly. Looking at the source, it seems the return will never be empty because at least the folder path will be returned. So you’ll have to adjust the conditional to take that into account.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Kitty

I see… yes, these function will always scale the image up or down and crop, if needed. Here is a possible solution.

Add the following to the wp-config.php file:

define( 'CN_IMAGE_MAX_WIDTH', 600 );
define( 'CN_IMAGE_MAX_HEIGHT', 400 );

That will set the max uploaded image size. Any above that will be scaled down proportionally. Anything below that size will be left as is, not scaled up.

In the template, instead of using the $entry->getImage(... block of code.

Use this:

$logoHREF = $entry->getOriginalImageURL('logo');
//$photHREF = $entry->getOriginalImageURL('photo');

if ( ! empty( $logoHREF ) ) {
    echo "<image src='$logoHREF'>";
}

That will simply output the image as uploaded.

Another handy line if code:

$entry->getImageMeta( array( 'type' => 'logo', 'size' => 'original' ) );

That will return an array of image metadata which includes width, height, size, mime, type, URL and path.

Hope that helps!

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