[Steven Zahm]

@ Casper

The shortcode option is image_fallback='none'. The better way would be this:

1. Navigate to the Connection : Templates admin page and click the Customize button for cMap.
2. The page will reload with the Customizer on the left and a Preview on the right.
3. In the Preview, click a entry name, any entry name, it does not matter which. The preview will reload showing just that entry profile detail page.
4. Click the back arrow in the upper left of the Customizer.
5. Click the Image Panel.
6. Uncheck the Image Placeholder option.
7. Click the Save and Publish button and exit the Customizer.

Hope that helps!

ps. When in the Customize the list view and the profile detail view are configured separately to allow you greater flexibility when configuring the template. This is why you had to click into the entry profile detail view in the customizer preview.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Stacy

Could you give me a login to your directory page since it requires one. I’d like to see the browser console to see what the error message that Google is giving you so I can give you a more precise answer.

When setting up your API keys, create two. Name one the Server key and name the other the Browser key. The Server key can be used as is. The browser key needs to have a referer restriction add. Your referrer should be set to: http://contemporaryquilling.org/. The preceding http:// and trailing / are important and should not be left off otherwise your Browser Key may not work because it will not be able to validate the referrer.

Hope this helps, let me know.

ps. The other user was confusing the domain verification with adding a referer restriction to an API key.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Johnny

You could use this:

[connections template="names" category=x] where x would be the category ID.

For this to work correctly, you would have to enable the single entry template option if you do not enable the option, when you click an entry name, instead of seeing the details, you would only see the entry name. Hope that makes sense!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Wiktor

Great to hear!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Rene

RE: but nr.5 not :(

On this page, https://kjslg.de/hegeringe/, you have the [connections] shortcode many times. Add home_id=x to each of those shortcodes where x is the page ID you should have noted in step 1. As an example, you shortcode should look something like this; [connections home_id=x]

You add the home_id option to each of the existing shortcodes with the existing options of those shortcodes. Do not add new shortcodes with the home_id option.

Hope that helps clear it up.

[Steven Zahm]

@ sanjith

Unfortunately there is nothing I can do about this. Perhaps you server IP has been blacklisted as a spammer.

You can use these tools to help find out:

• https://mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx
• http://whatismyipaddress.com/blacklist-check
• https://www.spamhaus.org/lookup/

There many more like these above.

It could be that the way your webhost has email setup which is triggering the spam filters.

Ideally, you should use an email service provider such as SendGrid. After you get setup and verified, it is far much more unlikely that email will get flagged as spam.

Alternatively, you could try Postman and use Gmail as the service provider to send email.

I hope this helps!

ps. There are tons of resources available with information which may help, here’s a Google search link.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Laureen

Yes and no…

Part of the issue is the server is very likely running a very old and unsupported version (for years). I recommend asking your professional IT friend or web host to update your site to run a more recent version of PHP. WordPress recommends version 7.0 due to it being much faster and far more resource efficient. I recommend at least version 5.6 (which is actually going to be unsupported soon if I remember correctly).

I did rollback the update after only a few hours so you must have been one of the few hundred who updated when this issue came to light…

You should be able to delete the ../wp-content/plugins/connections/ folder via FTP. The will let you back in you admin. Now you can reinstall Connections as you normally would. You data is completely safe and will not be deleted by deleting the plugin folder.

I will be releasing a revised update today which will make it work again on the very old version of PHP. It’s a very minor change but necessary for that old version. So you could also wait and install the new update if you wish.

My do apologize for the trouble this has caused you!

[Steven Zahm]

Seems the theme is setting width of selects to be 100% which causing the drop down to take the full with. I was not able to know this until the CSS I gave was added to the site.

Add this CSS (in addition to) the theme’s custom CSS area.

#cn-list .chosen-container.chosen-container-single {
    max-width: 240px !important;
}

The search always worked, you just were not able to type into the search field because the theme was hiding text inputs, globally. Have no idea why one would do that, I guess they have a reason.

[Steven Zahm]

Wow, that theme is pretty hostile with its styling!!! It has even written some HTML into the Connections search field code.

If the theme has a custom CSS area, add the following CSS to it:

body[data-form-style="minimal"] #cn-list .minimal-form-input {
    position: relative;
    padding-top: 0 !important;
    box-sizing: content-box;
    -webkit-box-sizing: content-box;
    -moz-box-sizing: content-box;
    display: inline-block;
    width: auto  !important;
}

input#cn-search-submit {
    background: url(http://bridge-alliance.com/wp-content/plugins/connections/assets/images/icons/search.png) 8px center no-repeat #FFF;
    border: 1px solid #DFDFDF;
    border-left-width: 0;
    -webkit-border-radius: 0 3px 3px 0 !important;
    border-radius: 0 3px 3px 0 !important;
    cursor: pointer;
    font-size: 12px;
    float: none !important;
    height: 28px;
    line-height: 20px;
    margin: 1px 1px 1px 0 !important;
    padding: 3px !important;
    text-align: left;
    vertical-align: bottom;
    width: 30px!important;
}

#cn-search-input {
    background: #FFF !important;
    border: 1px solid #DFDFDF !important;
    border-right-width: 0 !important;
    -webkit-border-radius: 3px 0 0 3px !important;
    border-radius: 3px 0 0 3px !important;
    -moz-box-sizing: border-box;
    box-sizing: border-box;
    color: #888;
    display: inline-block !important;
    font-size: 12px !important;
    float: none !important;
    height: 28px;
    line-height: 20px;
    margin: 1px 0 1px 1px!important;
    padding: 3px 6px !important;
    text-align: left;
    vertical-align: bottom;
    width: 140px !important;
}

#cn-search-input, input#cn-search-submit {
    box-shadow: inset 0 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,.1) !important;
    -webkit-box-shadow: inset 0 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,.1) !important;
}

#cn-list .chosen-container-single .chosen-search input[type=text] {
    color: #555;
    margin: 1px 0;
    padding: 4px 20px 4px 5px !important;
    width: 100%;
    height: auto;
    outline: 0;
    border: 1px solid #aaa !important;
    background: #fff url(http://bridge-alliance.com/wp-content/plugins/connections/vendor/chosen/chosen-sprite.png) no-repeat 100% -20px !important;
    background: url(http://bridge-alliance.com/wp-content/plugins/connections/vendor/chosen/chosen-sprite.png) no-repeat 100% -20px !important;
    font-size: 1em !important;
    font-family: sans-serif;
    line-height: normal;
    border-radius: 0;
}

This CSS should be sufficient to override the theme’s aggressive styling of forms.

Hope this helps, let me know.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Vijay

Make sure you make sufficient backups first, and, verify them … those upgrade are rather significant versions jumps.

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