[Steven Zahm]

@ Axel

btw… Maine Coons are my favorite cat! If I didn’t already have a dog (I was out voted) I’d have one of those.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Axel

You could use a plugin like WP HTTPS to keep all you pages except the direct page on SSL so you can keep SiteShot and serve most your site over SSL.

You would first reconfigure the site to server over plain http, the you would use the plugin to selectively choose which pages/posts to serve over SSL. It’s a little more work overall but provide you with a bit of flexibility.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Alex

Oh, I see… no it only affect display, not input. Full dates and valids are needed in order for it to be saved in the database.

It sounds what you really need in this situation is just a free form text input where you can input any test that works for the individual you’re entering.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Adam

That rotation issue is weird… never seen that before… Oh wait, I see… it is confusing but does make perfect sense. The image was shot “sideways”. The photographer turned the camera, instead of holding it upright, they rotated the camera -90ccw. This orientation is saved in the actual image, it’s called EXIF. Windows/OSX will auto orient the image so it appears upright even though it is still sideways. The thumbnail is created of the actual image as it is, ignoring the EXIF. Actually I do not attempt to read it all because it is hit or miss if the server supports reading that data from the image in the first place. Well, one exception which is new to 8.1.6. On image upload, the image will be scaled down, if larger than 1920×1080 to 1920×1080. This new code will check the server to see if it can read EXIF orientation and apply the orientation to the new 1920×1080 image.

What makes this even more confusing is… it seems, and throw me for a bit, both Chrome and Firefox appears to read the EXIF orientation so when you view just the image in the browser, they too will auto orient the image. It seems IE11 does not read the orientation and display the image just as it is, sideways.

Here’s a nifty page you test this for yourself:
http://metapicz.com/

Drag the original image of Bill on the page. After it uploads it’ll show you the EXIF data. Look for Orientation. You’ll see it says Rotate 90 CW. This is what Windows/OSX and the browsers are doing, rotating the image 90cw to counter the -90ccw orientation the image was shot in.

Does that make sense?

It seems the best way to avoid this whole orientation issue, is to save a PNG of the image and upload that instead.

As for the cropping … I can not duplicate that. I changed my logo settings to match, pulled down the original of Anthony and Christopher and they scaled down and added the border as they should.

Can you enable the Debug option on the Settings admin page under the Advanced tab and re-upload the image for Anthony? Right after you add the new image, after the page refreshes, at the top of the page there will be a log of events that occurred when processing the logo. Can you paste that log here?

[Steven Zahm]

re: Colin

Sorry, I will not be able to a shortlist or a bulk email. Please contact me using the contact link at the bottom of the page. We can hash out the final details via email.

Please paste a link to this forum thread so I can relate the two. Thanks!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Simon

Your server is setup to display PHP warning and notices. It is best practice to either disable such messages and log them to a file that is not web accessible on production servers. Basically if you’re not developing a site, the message should be off. The like_esc message message you’re seeing is for devs, letting us know that the function has been deprecated and we should plan on removing its use. Right now I need to maintain compatibility with WordPress 3.8 and newer so that function can not be removed since the function that replaced it is not available until WordPress 4.0 (or was it 4.1).

See this page on how to disable these messages:
http://aristeides.com/blog/wp-hide-php-errors/

That should fix it right up. Let me know.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Alex

Where are you looking at the date at? Changing it to Y will only affect the display on the frontend.

Also, make sure your purge your page cache after you make settings changes. You, should setup Wp Super Cache not to cache pages with query strings.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Axel

It seems the service (a free service provided to you by WordPress) that creates the thumbnails, it’s SSL cert is invalid so the images are being blocked by the browser. See for yourself, open the page in Chrome, hit the F12 key and then click the Console tab. Since this is an issue with the service provider, there not anything I can really do about and since this is free service, there is not even support that I can report the issue to.

I looked at some other commercial providers, it seems most do not to serve thumbs over SSL eother. At least one could, that would require redoing SiteShot to use that service and you would have register with that service and pay a monthly fee to them for providing you the service.

The only other options I can think of is not serving that one page over SSL on your site or manually creating your own thumbs.

As for the map extension, that is being worked on quite heavily every day. Here’s a forum thread that has a lot of the gory details :)
http://connections-pro.com/support/topic/map-view/#post-319925

[Steven Zahm]

@ Adam

The images thumbs are now created on demand, a much better system than “old” Connections where the image settings needed to be set ahead of time. Simple changing the settings should create the new images when there need to be displayed on the page. The file names are changed to a “hash” of the defined settings to ensure the browser cached image are not used; ie the old versions of the images.

With that said, there are templates which enforce a size, Slim both version and Except both versions. Those have always defaulted to the Crop and resize proportionally to best fit the specified dimensions, maintaining the aspect ratio. option with a hard coded size.

Are you using one of these templates?

Can you share a link to the page?

Can you attach a screenshot of the images settings?

Thanks!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Alex

The theme will load it into the page, that’s all the custom CSS area does, nothing more. The style declarations of the CSS only effect Connections. The CSS you pasted above will only effect for the Form extension you do know that, right?

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