Steven Zahm@ Becky
Ok, I’ve looked at this for the last couple hours… and it had me scratching my head, until…
The issue is a conflict with one of the theme’s features, sort of. The theme has a page visual page builder built in. Fine, that is a great feature to have. This particular visual page builder caches its output which I would say, normally, is a good thing. However, this simply will not work for highly dynamic shortcode based plugins like Connections.
Basically, anytime you updated the page in the admin, the content of the shortcode at that point would be cached by the theme and then displayed by the theme anytime the page was being displayed. The effect basically is that it would appear that all links are broken, search not working and so on because no matter what you did in Connections, the theme would still be displaying the original cached output of Connections.
I disabled this page builder caching in option the theme settings and now Connections seems to work just fine (actually Connections was never broke…).
Couple questions for you…
Why are you using another visual page builder when the theme already has that feature built in? Seems redundant and would only slow down the site. I would suggest using one or the other.
Similarly, you have a favicon/site icon plugin installed both WordPress and the theme has options to set the site’s icon. Also, the installed plugin seems not to be compatible with WP any more and abandoned by the dev likely because the feature is built in into WP now.
Hope that helps!