[Steven Zahm]

@ Cole

Yes, I’m fairly certain. I could have sworn that it a PDF out too. Perhaps the other were using it to print the page using Chrome’s built in PDF printer.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Phillip

There are not checkbox based solutions. That said, I do have a multi-category search solution I can provide you for a reasonable fee which would include installation and configuration. You can see it in action on this live production site:

https://sscit.org/

The category selects are configurable and the zipcode search can be turned off.

This is also template neutral, can be used in combination when any of the templates.

If you are interested, let me know by using the contact form link at the very bottom of this page.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

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@ Qusai

Google processes the geocoding of addresses, it is pretty good for US based addresses but other countries accuracy can be a little spotty. After you add an address, you can click the geocode button. After you click the button you can drag and drop the pin to fine tune the location of the map pin. Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Coles

I suggest trying the Print O Matic Plugin, several users have had success in using it to create PDF version of their directories.

Removing the srcset and replacing it with src is not all that straightforward and require quite a few code changes.

If you add some code to this line. You would access the $atts['srcset'] array to get the image path and add it as a new array key $atts['src']. Then unset the $atts['srcset'] array key.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Sarah

Try this. Go to the Connections : Roles admin page. Click the reset all role capabilities option on the right and click the update button. Did that fix the issue?

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@ Sarah

My guess is that the theme uses shortcodes to do custom page layouts. Doe this theme have a visual editor of any kind? If it does, I might have to add this theme to a theme compatibility exclusion in Connections so on the profile file pages it does not strip all other shortcodes from the page content. Connections does this to prevent duplicate entries to be shown if the user put the shortcode on the page multiple times.

If you can give me a temp admin account, I’ll login and manually make the change to see if this helps or not. The login details can be posted here as a private reply.

[Steven Zahm]

@ matt581

The amount of time, that can be do to all sorts of reasons from web host configuration to the actual hardware of the server. It could be as simple as the faster site is using a newer version of PHP. PHP 5.2 is very slow compared to PHP 7, for example. Memory allocation will not, from my experience, have too much impact of the time it takes PHP to parse and run code. Now, if everything is exactly the same, it could simply be that the time being recorded in not accurate.

[Steven Zahm]

@ matt581

Ahhh, yes, you’ve gotta love percentages. Yes, compared to the few small plugins it is being compared to, percentage-wise Connections will appear to use a lot of resources. Connections is a large plugin, it does a lot and will use more resources than small plugins. Look at another way, WP Mini Audio Player has a relatively large slice percentage-wise for such a small plugin single purpose plugin. The theme, unless it is very lightweight theme likely uses more resources than all the plugins combined.

The reality if that Connections only has a noticeable impact on page load time on the page in which Connections is being used and its admin pages. And noticeable is relative because if you are only displaying 20’ish entries on a page, the page load time and resources are only negligibly larger than loading a standard WP page.

Let’s illustrate this a bit:

• The homage page actually takes longer to load and scores worse. 3.35secs / 75 out of 100
• The directory page loads in 2.71secs with a score of 87 out of 100.

Using another metric for Comparison has both pages rated pretty closely with the directory page being rated slightly worse because of the additional assets being loaded (the headshots).

So, in real world there’s not much of an impact and can vary from visit to visit unless the pages are being cached (which I recommend, WP Rocket specifically).

The issue with Wordfence not being able to complete a scan is unlikely related to Connections or the resources it uses. It is likely related to the webhost and the resources it permits the site to use. Now that said, deactivating Connections could allow the scan to finish but that would only because there was just enough resources freed to allow it not because Connections is using more resources typical of a plugin it’s size.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Derek

Like most commercial plugins for WordPress support and updates are sold with an annual support license. When you buy, you receive support and updates for a year (some like Envato only give you 6 months unless you pay more). Renewing the support and update license is optional but you do lose access to the updates. This is a very common business model of commercial WP plugins. When the support license expires, the extensions and templates for Connections will continue to work just fine unless there is a breaking change. In this particular case, WP made a breaking change that I had no control over. The only thing I can do is release an update, which I did and which was free to everyone with an active support license. Those with expired support license have to new it the support license (at a discount). Really, this is pretty close to software sales has always worked. For example, you bought software X version 1 for Windows XP. You upgraded to Windows 10 but version 1 of software X is not compatible but version 2 is, you have to pay the upgrade to version 2. The analogy is not perfectly a 1-to-1 but its pretty close.

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