Add text above form on /events/community/add/

[jpehrler]

I would like to add instructions to space above the form on the “Add Event” page. I’m not a tech guy and don’t want to have to do this via the code or the CSS. I’m hoping you’ve got this functionality available.
Thanks!

[Barry]

If you only want to add the text on that page I’m afraid you would need to do so by adding some code. If you want to explore that we’d be happy to help.

Some great starting points are our themer’s guide and this tutorial on template overrides.

In essence though (unless they already exist of course) you would create some new directories within your theme, events and, within events a sub-directory called community – so the path to that directory would look like:

wp-content/themes/{YOUR_THEME}/events/community/

You would then copy event-form.php from this location:

wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar-community-events/views/event-form.php

And place it in the new folder within your theme:

wp-content/themes/{YOUR_THEME}/events/community/event-form.php

You’d need to edit that file slightly. Here is an example and you can see the text I added near the top, looking like this:

<p> MY CUSTOM MESSAGE! </p>

Which you could of course edit to something more suitable.

[jpehrler]

All that is a foreign language to me, and would end up probably crashing my site and costing me several hours of programmer time to get it back up.
Sorry to see that the plugin does not allow for this, as it seems pretty elemental. Part of the beauty of WP is NOT having to be a coder to run it. For $50 this functionality should be available.

[Barry]

We’ll definitely take that feedback on board (and you can also create a request or add support to an existing request on our UserVoice page – which helps us to meter demand for any given feature).

I’d definitely agree that a great thing about WordPress is not having to be a coder to run it and I think you’ll agree that is, on the whole, also true of Community Events. However there are limitations and it does often require coding knowledge to achieve something that goes beyond the out-of-the-box look and feel of the plugin as you want to do here.

Generally speaking we feel that is a reasonable and practical way to approach things, but we can certainly investigate adding specific pieces of functionality like this if demand seems strong enough.

[jpehrler]

Thanks Barry 🙂

[Barry]

No problem. Since we can’t do a great deal more in this thread I’m inclined to close it, but I’ll leave it open for a couple more days in case you have further thoughts/feedback/questions.

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