A couple of questions from a new Pro user

[Steve]

Hi there,
I am complete novice who has managed to build our new website. I have bought Event Manager Pro but I have a few questions:

* many of our events have end times that are not relevant. Is it possible not to have this as a mandatory field?
* In Event List mode, I have an ugly white background behind the dates/time info (http://69.195.124.65/~thelocd9/MEL/events/upcoming/). How do I fix this?
* is it possible to somehow modify recurring dates to account for occasional holidays that would prevent one event to not happen?
* is it possible to include the DAY of event in addition to the date?
* I am using a WP theme but can’t get it to work behind just my Event page (it’s just black)? In your template setting, I have the option of Default Events Template which does give me themed background but the Event Diary fills the whole screen though, rather than contained in the post window like everything else. Any ideas?

[Barry]

Hi Steve, thanks for buying Events Calendar PRO – we’d be happy to help 🙂

many of our events have end times that are not relevant. Is it possible not to have this as a mandatory field?

When you create events you could simply let the system set the end date automatically; on the front end you can make use of template overrides to hide the end date from visitors.

In Event List mode, I have an ugly white background behind the dates/time info (http://69.195.124.65/~thelocd9/MEL/events/upcoming/). How do I fix this?

I’m unsure as I can’t identify the problem you are referring to; I can’t actually see any events when I visit your site – can you provide a direct link to a URL where this problem is apparent?

is it possible to somehow modify recurring dates to account for occasional holidays that would prevent one event to not happen?

Recurring events are being overhauled for version 3.0 of our plugins, however currently you would need to set up separate chains of recurring events to achieve this as exceptions and irregular patterns are not supported “out of the box”.

is it possible to include the DAY of event in addition to the date?

Definitely, again you would need to implement a template override to make this change safely – however I believe that all of the template tags responsible for printing out event dates can accept an optional parameter letting you express the date format in exactly the same fashion as used with PHP’s date() function.

I am using a WP theme but can’t get it to work behind just my Event page (it’s just black)? In your template setting, I have the option of Default Events Template which does give me themed background but the Event Diary fills the whole screen though, rather than contained in the post window like everything else. Any ideas?

I’m struggling to find an example of a regular post on this website – can you provide a URL so I can compare?

Generally speaking though you would need to select another template from Events > Settings > Template or else customize ecp-page-template.php and ecp-single-template.php using template overrides to achieve full integration with your theme, especially if the theme you are using deviates significantly from the norm.

One final thought is that it would be better to split so many separate topics into separate threads – it quickly becomes very confusing indeed when several different problems are discussed in a single thread 🙂

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