[Steven Zahm]

@ Peggy

re: What is the maximum size for the pictures?

Depends on your web host. The max size I recommend is not much larger than the size that you are displaying.

re: They had always been their current size and started causing problems earlier in the year.

The absolute max size depends on the memory allocated to php by your web host. Generally a web host will allow you to set it to 128MB, many will even allow up to 256MB. Now, you can actually set PHP to any amount of memory but it will be silently “hard” limited by the webhost.

Why all this talk about memory?

Processing images require memory. Opening an image for processing can take 4 or more times the memory that the image file size. So processing a typical image that comes any modern day cell phone can easily exhaust the memory allocated to PHP.

Now, this memory needed to process an image, that is also shared by WordPress and all the other plugins that are installed on your site.

This leads me in why now…

This could be due to many factors.

• The webhost made server side changes that you would not be aware of.
• WordPress, plugins and theme are all needing more and more memory.
• Sometime in the last year, just one image was uploaded that was too large and it is just that one image that is causing the problem.

It could be any or or a combination of all or more or even none of the above and the reason is another that I can not think of at the moment.

Honestly, I think it is that last one. I see you have a max upload size set to 64MB. If you or another user uploaded a multi megapixel image that could easily cause the problem.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Matthew

Gog to hear you have it all sorted :)

[Steven Zahm]

@ Matthew

When importing, do not map the Entry ID column. The import is trying to update non-existing entries which is why you are not seeing anything being imported.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Peggy

I logged in again and made the change to the code not to display the image.

You should follow thru with the advice I gave in this replay. If you do not, anytime I release an update, that code change I made to your site will be erased by WordPress when the updated version is installed. Downloading the original image for each entry and downsizing them will prevent the issue you are having.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Jonathan

re: What I’m wondering is if there would be an easy way to add a File Upload custom field to the FORM extension. This field would be for Resume’s (pdfs), and I was going to look into duplicating the image upload field if that were possible, but I feel like this is something that somebody may have done before.

Not done before, that I know of, not even by myself. Easy is relative, that would depend on how familiar you are with PHP and WordPress. IMHO, it should be somewhat painless and could probably be done in an afternoon.

I suggest taking a look at the code for the Hours extension. It’s a freebie so you’ll be able to download it.

It will not have an upload field but it does have pretty good inline code documentation. And it uses the same actions and filters you would need to added a new upload field.

In the action callback to save the file upload you would use the $_FILES global and use the core WordPress media_handle_upload() to insert it into the media library. The returning value from the function will be the attachment ID which you would save as entry meta.

re: is there an easy way to pull a list of email addresses based on Category. The goal would be a custom template to select a category and receive a list of just the email field.

Sorry, no, there is not. But, you could use the Export All tool. This exports the data as a CSV file which you can load into a spreadsheet. From there you can filter by category to get the email addresses you want.

re: I haven’t done too much digging through the plugin yet, but is there a function provided to loop through entries and return email addresses based on a category?

No, not really, but perhaps you could use this:

http://connections-pro.com/support/topic/auto-create-contact-sheet/

You can configure it to display only the name and email address.

A couple screenshots and the purchase link can be found in the post:

http://connections-pro.com/support/topic/auto-create-contact-sheet/#post-338187

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Andy

re: I only have the one site using Connections. It’s Steve Scott, the other contributor to this topic with the two sites.

Ahhh… I completely missed that, obviously. Apologies!

re: Should I have known a db update would be required?

No, not really. From time to time I need to make db tweaks to support upcoming features. This db tweak simply added and order column to support the new Custom Entry Order extension I am going to be releasing soon.

[Steven Zahm]

Eric

Add and Activate your support license keys on the Connections Settings admin page under the Licenses tab.

After you do, you will be notified right within the admin about updates and be able to apply them with a single click like you can with the free plugins from wordpress.org.

You should have receive 3 or 4 renewal reminder emails around the time of the license expiration. Is you email address current? The customer record say it is e******@b******w.com (the numer of asterisks I used are a random number, not representative of the actual number of characters to prevent guessing by others :) ) If your address is correct, perhaps they ended up your spam folder. That should happen because these email are verified and signed which stop email service providers such as Gmail and Outlook from auto filtering to the spam folder.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Alfonso

By default those feature of disabled in Gridder. Here’s the doc page which explains how to turn them back on.

Hope that helps, let me know.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Charles

Make sure your support license key has been added and activated on the Connections Licenses admin page. If the license has expired, you’ll have to renew it (at a discount) before you can apply the update. When you activate your support license, it’ll let you know the status.

Hope that helps, let me know.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Andy

Good to hear that you were able to update!

I did get a reply back from the wp.org plugin admins. It does seem they were having issues. Here’s the link they sent me:

https://make.wordpress.org/plugins/2016/04/13/assetsreadmes-not-showing-properly-on-plugin-pages/

Ad for the db update… you should have had to do that on both sites. You did not have to one the one???

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