[Steven Zahm]

@ John

re: Yes please on the pre-release version. Will that mean it just opens where the click is ?

Correct. I’ll email it to the address tied to your account.

re: Not sure how to centre the images on upload?..they are centred within themselves…maybe a left margin on the boxes containing them here ?

I took another look at your site…

You’ve added this custom CSS:

.cn-image {
    max-width: 80%!important;
}

You need to remove it. This is forcing the image to be only 80% of their size which is causing them to appear left aligned rather than filling the grid image area as they should.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Rebecca

Can you please share your system info with me? Here’s how:

Navigate to the Connections : Tools admin page and click the System Tools tab.

Scroll to the bottom and click the Generate button for a Remote Viewing link.

Reply back, as a private reply, and share that link with me.

Thanks!

[Steven Zahm]

@ suzanne621

Yes, that is exactly how it works. The Slim template requires a specific image size for its layout to stay intact so Connections will auto create the required image size on demand.

That said…

The image size should be larger than the size you stated, so, that is not correct. Can you share the link to your directory page so I can see the issue?

[Steven Zahm]

@ northriskpartners

I know other users use Connections on WP Engine just fine and not have run into this before. Can I have WP admin and FTP access to your staging instance on WP Engine so I can debug this thoroughly?

re: Is there a WordPress variable or something like that that Connections uses to generate the paths?

Connections does use the same login and constants WP uses for the wp-content folder path. I basically copy/pasted this from the WP core code to create my own version of the login so I could define the path without using the year/month folder structure… I needed a custom folder structure that made sense for the directory. This could have been accomplished with filters, but then other plugins would have conflicted causing all sorts of image related problem for me.

You can see the image path that Connections generates on the Connections : Tools admin page under the System Info tab. Is this correct?

Also, the security checks that Connections does in addition to what WordPress does. It does a local file path check before processing images. This is done because Connections has the ability to generate images scales/crops on demand. For example, like what TimThumb does. I believe it is this check that is failing because the S3 bucket is no a local path. I believe I may have to add some kind of tweak or workaround for your use case in your environment which is why I’ve asked for access to your staging instance on WP Engine. Without this access and being able to debug firsthand, I doubt I’ll be able to address this further.

[Steven Zahm]

@ dgalassi

Hmmm… maybe the Authored extension??? If you can can give links to specific examples on your site so I can understand better what you’re asking I think I might be able to come up with other solutions that might meet your needs.

[Steven Zahm]

@ christian

That is the category selection feature of the Market template. You can use the enable_category_select shortcode option for Market to turn that feature off.

Here’s sample shortcode:

[connections enable_category_select=false]

Hope this helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ northriskpartners

Connections has a security check in place to check if the image is within the local uploads path because it manipulates images on demand. The local file path check is to help ensure that third party (malicia threats) can not use the image processing code to inject “bad stuff” into the site.

I can only assume the path in the screenshot is actually correct for your site’s content in the S3 bucket. Is it?

Probably the easiest solution… does the plug you are using to add S3 support only exclusions. If it does, I would suggest excluding the connections-images folder.

The only other solution I can think will only work if the other plugin author would be will to add support specifically for Connections.

Or perhaps, maybe it might be possible to add a “shim” to Connections to work with the S3 plugin you are using. Which is?

Hope this helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Justin

re: Any thoughts?

Yes… you’ll have to update Connections. This issue was corrected in the 8.6.4 version update.

Hope this helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Jakub

You must have a plugin that adds that setting since that is not a core option that is available to users.

Glad to hear you have it resolved.

[Steven Zahm]

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