[Steven Zahm]

@ Anne

I ended having to load the site using IE11 in order to duplicate it. The difference ended up being access the site via http://limabuildingtrades.com vs http://www.limabuildingtrades.com. Notice the www you have your site configured to require the www so when you access the site without it, WP tries to do the redirect internally to prevent duplicate content issues for search engines. You should set up this redirect in your htaccess. Using WP to handle the redirect causes unnecessary server load and just as importantly, slightly increase page load time.

That said… Connections does have a redirect which is only in effect when accessing the site’s frontpage. In simple terms the redirect is prevented. This is done to permit those who wish to use the directory on their sites frontpage to do so. Without this special case it would not be possible, for example, to view the single entry profile/detail view (not used in Slim Plus). What would occur is that WP assumes the user is trying to view a post instead of a directory entry which of course it will not find and display a 404 not found error. Basically it is the only way for plugins (not just Connections) shortcode to work on the front page when their shortcode relies on a query variable to determine what to display. Hope that is not confusing!

Any way, that said… I made the logic a little bit smarter. Please try again, should work fine. Let me know.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Anne

Could you give the exact steps that I can follow to replicate? I spent an hour this morning typing links and clicking links in different orders and the pages always loaded.

You said “when I first pull the page up I can’t access the menu.” how exactly are you pulling up the first page?

Perhaps your browser is displaying a locally cached “old version” version of the page instead. Try force refreshing the page in your browser.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Jennifer

RE: Is there any way to link just one more entry to one email address?

Sorry, no, it is a one-to-one relationship between the WP User and Connections Entry.

RE: I am still locked out — is that normal? I only ask because it’s been more than 24 hours.

Sorry, it should be only a half hour. I manually removed the locks related to your account/IP address. So you should be able to do a password reset and login in now. Apologies for the trouble!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Anne

So… I visited again and I was not able to duplicate any issues with the page not loading. Have you been able to?

I did re-enable the Google Maps API in Connections and add the directory URL to the theme’s animation exclusion list so the template would display correctly. The way the theme handles the transition animation any plugins which dynamically load scripts in the page footer will be broken. Perhaps that was the issue, however, I was not able to duplicate page loading issue prior to making these two small settings changes.

Hope this helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Oisin van Gelderen

RE: I would be grateful to know if you offer paid customisation services to make the changes as described above?

Yes, I do, please contact me using the Contact link at the very bottom of the page with the details.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Trevor

Yep, that’ll work too. You can set any width/height you wish you do not necessarily need to use the shortcode values. Personally, I really can not see a difference between the small image @100 and the larger image scaled down with CSS. Perhaps that is simply due to my display. It’s not cheap or low end but is not a HiDPI either as it has a pixel density of about 110 PPI. If you are viewing on a Mac Pro or a high end tablet/phone which has a higher pixel density then scaling down a larger image in CSS would make a little difference. I did dev a feature to specifically support HiDPI images but disabled it for now since it does cause the directory to load slower as it has to create multiple images for the browser to swap in the most relevant based on the device/browser. The slowest part is that the browser has to download multiple images. I do revist this from time to time so at some point I am sure I will enable this feature again.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Zac

The featured image thumbnail in the latest posts displayed by Authored is displayed using the core WordPress get_the_post_thumbnail() function

The size and crop which is set on the core WordPress Media settings admin page.

Does that help?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Linda

You have to add the string, like so:

echo 'UPDATED:' . $entry->getFormattedTimeStamp( 'm/d/Y' );

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Anne

Sorry, I did not see that you had replied back with log details.

These details were not posted as private so were available for all to see … you’ll want to change those logins details ASAP and send me new one, as private.

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