[Steven Zahm]

@ Ralph

RE: sure where messages sent from user to another are sent to.

Messages are set to the entry’s preferred email address. If a preferred is not set and the entry has more than one email address, it is sent to the first email address. If the entry has a single email address, it is sent to that address. If there are no email addresses, the contact form is not shown.

RE: There doesnt seem to be a spot in WordPress’ back end to receive messages, nor was a message sent via email to the user.

Email is sent via email, not to an area in the admin. The user should check their spam/junk folder.

You can also check check if the email is actually being sent. Important fact, Connections, nor does the add on Contact, send the email. WordPress sends the email.

Logs of the email can be found on the Connections : Tools admin page under the Logs tab. The Sent status will show if WordPress reported success or failure. What WordPress reports is based on what the web host reports to WordPress.

I suggest installing the Post SMTP Mailer/Email Log. No need to make any configurations changes to it after install. Send a test message thru Contact and then look for it in the Post SMTP Email log. You can view more details about the about the sending process by looking at the email transcript.

If everything is reporting the email as sent successfully and the email is not is the users junk/spam folder then is was likely blocked during transport. There can be many reasons for this. The first thing I would check is that your sites IP address is not on a spam black list. If you are on a shared host, this is somewhat common as another user on the same IP address as your account could have had the IP address blacklisted for sending spam.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Tim

Perhaps you are looking for the order_by shortcode option. It has an option to shortcode by department.

Hope this helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Larry

I’m sorry, but I do not understand what you are asking. Since you said you added categories and an entry, I’m guessing you are asking how you show the directory on a page with a shortcode. Is that correct? If it is, please see Step 4 in the Quick Start guide on how to display your directory with the shortcode.

Hope this helps, let me know.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Stefan

So, I was looking into this deeper… it would seem better to build this as an add on which would add a new box to the add/edit entry admin page which would allow one to set SEO related options such as choosing the image to share, page title, tab title, meta description and other such FB Open Graph tags. Could you please contact me via the Contact link at the bottom of the page. Thanks!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Jennifer

Apologies for the delay in my reply! Keeping this going in Todoist is fine. I have it opened up now and reviewing to freshen up my memory. I’ll reply back in Todoist.

[Steven Zahm]

@ SLPS

RE: why aren’t my phone numbers over on the right like they are in the samples?

What same are you referring to? Other than a few custom CSS styles being applied to the template…. it looks correct. Maybe I am misunderstanding?

[Steven Zahm]

re: Don’t exist an extension?

Well, there is a search widget available in the Widget Pack extension. You may find the template more useful though.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Lisa

Sorry, it not possible to use the keyword search to filter by category. I do have a suggestion though. You could disable the category drop down feature in cMap and add the Enhance Categories extension. Then you could display a list of categories above the directory for your users to click. It does not really solve your search question, but it will definitely make the categories far more obvious, much harder for a user to overlook.

Hope this helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ SLPS

RE: Can I send you a link privately?

Sure, click the “set as private replay” before click the submit button.

Also, please navigate to the WordPress Permalinks admin page. No changes are needed, just visit the page. WordPress will rebuild its permalink structure cache. Does that correct the issue?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Debbie

RE: I use a theme that has a builder in it, similar to visual composer. When I insert the shortcode in a standard text field, the card does not display correctly at all

Unfortunately this is impossible for me to know what the issue is from looking at the screenshot… my best guess is that the theme’s page builder is not correctly processing WordPress shortcodes. It looks like it might be telling the shortcode to output before its is supposed to. perhaps the theme builder is not meant to use shortcode in its text area content blocks … does it have a shortcode block?

RE: When I do not use the builder and place it in the standard wordpress field, it displays too high and under the header.

What do you mean by standard WordPress field? The post content area? If that is the case, I suspect you have a static header and the theme has not properly pushed the page/page content area down to account for the static header height. I would look for a margin/padding option in the theme. If it is a visual builder, I certain it has one somewhere in its settings.

RE: I would like to change the size of the business card. So far I have not found where this can be done.

Here’s the link to the docs which explain how to change the tile size.

RE: I have worked my around the header issue, although it still does not work in the builder technology.

Good to hear you got it working! I took a look at your site… I see you are using Themify. Connections does work fine it in as I’ve assisted other users who were using their themes. It, like just a theme design setting that needs tweaked or perhaps a different content block should be used.

RE: However, with the size of the font size is way to small. Can I customized which field displays at different font sizes?

The font size was chosen to be this size so the default info would fit within the small card size. If you wish to increase the size, it can be done with CSS.

Add this following to the theme’s custom CSS area:

#cn-tile-plus .cn-entry,
#cn-tile-plus .cn-entry .fn {
    font-size: 16px;
}

Tweak the size as desired.

RE: without me reverse engineering the CSS values, I would like to center it and place a label in front of it. Do you have an easier way?

Nope, CSS is the only way. Here’s the CSS:

#cn-tile-plus span.cn-search label {
    margin-right: 8px;
}

#cn-tile-plus span.cn-search {
    display: block;
    float: none;
    margin: 0 auto;
    text-align: center;
}

#cn-tile-plus .cn-search label {
    display: inline;
}

It does appear that some custom CSS has been applied breaking the visual style of the search input, you’ll have to remove that to correct its display.

Hope that helps, let me know

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