[Steven Zahm]

@ Steven

Thanks for the screenshots. It does appear to rounding them up. I’ll dig into that and fix it for the next update. Now that said… is it really important for that level of precision? Assuming the online calculators I found for distance between two points, the difference is only 1.6972441 inches.

[Steven Zahm]

@ jon

I think you might have missed my answer in my previous reply… take a look at this page. I believe that will do what you want.

[Steven Zahm]

@ jon

re: is there anyway to make the plugin work where no listings show up on the primary page and still have the state selections show the listings by name only?

Take a look at this, I think that’ll do what you’re asking.

re: disabled your plugin and now the site runs fast again.

How do you mean? There is no impact on page load times except for the page which has Connections on. I do test this by having the most basic shared hosting plan available on Bluehost. You know the one, you can run WordPress on it, but you really shouldn’t. And all pages still load as well as can be expected. Even the page with Connections on it loads just fine, no real noticeable impact. It actually loads quicker than the core posts archive page in WordPress.

re: Is there anyway to make the top dropdown wider so I can fit my text in?

Here’s some custom CSS that’ll force the min width based on the long string placeholder string that is set. Just add it to the theme’s custom CSS area and flush your cache.

#cn-tile-plus select.cn-category-select.cn-enhanced-select {
    min-width: 320px;
}

Speaking of cache…

It seems your cache expiration time is set to something less than 10 minutes based on the info in the page source provided by Super Cache. In the time it has taken me to reply, the page was cached and expired and cached again. On a mostly static site like this you can easily get away with a much longer cache expiration time.

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@ Jo

re: a company that wants to list in our directory would be set up with a user id and password and given a subscriber role.

Correct.

re: I can insert some code that would take them straight to the directory page when they log in.

You could use a user login redirection plugin to do the redirect the the directory page of your site. From there, they can click on the link to add their entry which will be displayed above the directory. If there entry already exists, then the link will show view my directory.

re: Am I correct in thinking that Link will take them straight to their basic listing

No, Link only links a user account to a directory entry to allow that user to maintain it. It does not do any login redirection.

re: does their email address need to be their user id for this to happen?

The email address in the user account must match the email address in the directory entry for Link to link the two.

re: they can use Form to add in the other details?

Correct, if Form is installed, they will be able to add/edit their entry on the site frontend using the same links that the Link extension adds. The difference is that the links will resolve the page where they can do it with Form on the frontend instead of the admin Link profile page. Hope that makes sense!

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@ cscott

re: I want to show the full category names above the directory instead of just the first letter. Can be in a drop down but probably just the full names. What exactly do I need to do to achieve this?

Any of the premium templates can be used to add a user search category drop down filter.

Alternatively, the Widget Pack has a category list widget which you can place in the theme’s sidebar.

Hope that answers your question.

[Steven Zahm]

@ keith

Can you point to me and example? I took a look at the people page on your site and it seems like every entry has an image.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Debbie

My first suggestion is to check the shortcode. Make sure you have it set to the correct category ID.

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@ jon

Showing 1200 entries on a page could be an issue. Though not really a Connections issue. If you tried displaying 1200 WordPress page/post title on a single page that would have the same impact. Maybe even more.

As a test on my host (with a limit of 1200 since I have 30K in my Connections db and all those can not be listed on a single page):

• PHP 5.3.29 takes about 11 seconds to load using 140MB of memory.
• PHP 7.0.3 takes about 2.5 seconds to load using 53MB of memory.

What can you take from that, I guess not to much really because I really have no idea on the impact of virtual memory, not being a server admin. But I do know that a whole host of things can contribute the server resource usage down to how the host is configured to what software version they are using. One example is PHP7 which is far, far, more memory efficient and much faster.

I see you are using Super Cache. It says the page is created in about 10 seconds. Make sure to use a longer cache expiration time, maybe 24 hours, that way the page is only created once a day. That will definitely reduce server resource usage since the page would only be created one a day.

Not sure if that is of any help, hope it is.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Brennan

Go to the Connections : Settings admin page and click the Licenses tab. Add and activate your support license key for Tile Plus.

That should fix it if you valid, not expired, support license key. Let me know how it goes.

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@ Aaron

re: great can you explain what you did to fix the file?

1. I opened the file in Sublime, its bottom status bar said the file encoding was possibly broken and that it opened as UT8 w/ BOM… that BOM part is not supported.
2. Knowing this, I opened the file in LibreOffice Calc.
3. I than saved a copy from Calc enabling the Edit filter settings option.
4. In the next popup I set the Character Set to UTF8 leading the other options set to their default.

re: also is there a way to import to a category?

Sure, here’s the link to the FAQ with the details.

Hope that helps!

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