[Steven Zahm]

@ dean535

Oh, I didn’t realize you did give a link! I just happened to notice it after I reread your original post. Apologies!

It appears you may have turned off the the core CSS required by Connections. That’ll cause you trouble unless you want to completely style every bit of Connections yourself. The template will continue to look mostly/somewhat right because it has its own CSS.

To reenable to core CSS, go to the Connections : Settings admin page and click the Advanced tab. Add a check to the CSS option under compatibility and save.

After, that is reenabled, let me know and I’ll take a look.

[Steven Zahm]

@ dean535

Were there the code and pre tags like I had guessed from you screenshot. Can you post a screenshot showing what it looks like now and a screenshot of the edit page screen while in the visual editor. Do you have a page caching plugin or server caching? If you do, flush the cache. Also do a force refresh on your browser.

Or, better, yet… share a link to the page with me. My hands are pretty tied to what I can suggest by just looking at a picture … basically I’m guessing rather than giving your solutions.

Another thing you might want to look at. Open the page with Chrome, hit the F12 key and then click the Console tab. It appears there may be a fatal javascript error. These are usually always caused by other plugins. Most of the time the offending plugin can be identified by the file name and/or path given as part of the error.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Solveg

Yes, comment out these two lines:

• https://github.com/Connections-Business-Directory/Connections/blob/8.1.7/includes/admin/class.functions.php#L97
• https://github.com/Connections-Business-Directory/Connections/blob/8.1.7/includes/admin/class.functions.php#L98

[Steven Zahm]

@ dean535

The first thing you need to do is edit the page that you inserted the [connections] shortcode on.

Switch the post editor to the Text tab.

Now, remove the code and/or pre HTML tags from around and/or within the shortcode. If there are any other HTML tags, you should remove those too.

Save the page.

Now, how does it look?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Sandro

Ok, I understand now. Yes, that is possible but is advanced as you would need to know PHP and create a custom template override file that would add the image.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Jen

First, let me direct you to a QuickTip that has some tips for you when working with shortcodes that apply to any plugin that uses them:
http://connections-pro.com/2012/07/30/quicktip-working-with-shortcodes/

To solve the issue you speak of…

Edit the page where you inserted the shortcode. I’m guessing you copy/pasted it or an option for it from the doc page into the WP Visual Editor which is why you’re redirected to my site.

Switch the post editor to the Text tab.

Now remove the link to my site from around or within the shortcode. While you at it. It probably is likely there are other HTML elements, not just the link, in and around the shortcode, remove all that you find.

Update the page.

That should solve the issue.

[Steven Zahm]

@ dean535

re: with the slim plus template, is it possible to have the alphabet letters at the top which would allow someone to skip to the last name starting with that letter?
Yes, this feature is available to all templates, even the free ones with Connections. Go to the Connections : Settings admin page. Click the Display tab. Enable the Character Index option.

re: Also how can I enlarge the page number links at the bottom of the pages?
You can use CSS to enlarge them.

#cn-page-nav a, #cn-page-nav .page-numbers {
  font-size: 24px !important;
}

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Michael

When Connections crops images, it is center weighted. What you need to do is preprocess your images so the heads are more centered. So crop the image so they are more shoulder/head removing some of the lower body.

Alternatively, you could try the free Face Detect extension

Additionally…

I see that you are using the shortcode twice on the page. You can do that, but you do need a more “complex” setup. But fore we get into that.

Edit the page that you’ve inserted the shortcodes on. Switch the page editor to the Text tab and remove the code and pre tags from around the second shortcode. Update the page.

Now with that fixed.

Create a new “Results” page … the name can be anything you like, that does not matter. Add the only [connections] shortcode to it with no shortcode options. Save the page.

Go to the Connections : Settings admin page and set the new “Results” page to the Directory Home Page.

Now edit the page where you inserted the shortcodes and add the force_home shortcode option to both shortcodes so they look something like this:
[connections force_home='TRUE'].

Update the page.

No the links to the individual entry will resolve to the new “Results” page.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ WomenBizNetwork

Yes. I’ll process the refund. It could take 7 to 10 business days for you to see the refund.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Solveg

I right… that usually fixes it on hosts with less typical permissions setups. Like I said, the next release, I’ll have the notice removed since it is no longer valid.

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