Calendar Page not formatting correctly

[Raylene]

I am having an issue with the Events Calendar. I enter the information but it does not display on the main calendar page as I typed it in the text block in WP in the Events Page. Also, the text changes color on different links on the calendar page. How can I change the text color?

[Nico]

Howdy Raylene,

Welcome to our support forums and thanks for reaching out to us. Sorry to hear about your issues, I’ll help you out on those!

I enter the information but it does not display on the main calendar page as I typed it in the text block in WP

Can you point me to the page you refer to? Can you describe what’s not showing up correctly?

Also, the text changes color on different links on the calendar page.

You can change these text colors via CSS, you can take a look at our Themer’s guide before doing so. If you don’t feel comfortable at all with coding you can point me the texts you want to change and I can craft the CSS code for you.

Please let me know about those,
Best,
Nico

[Raylene]

When you open the calendar link, the description of the events is all in one paragraph and forms with links are in it. The links don’t work. So when you go to the “more info” on the individual event, it looks totally different. Look at the event for Hi Low Country competition

[Nico]

Hi Raylene,

Thanks for following up and sorry for my late reply!

I can see the issue you point out. The list/single-event template which renders that page, outputs the ‘short descripcion’ via the_excerpt wordpress function. This function outputs the content of the excerpt field, but if this field is empty it outputs a trimmed-down version of the full post content. Rounding up, you can edit this short description via the excerpt field!

Please let me know if this answers your question,
Best,
Nico

[Raylene]

Where is this excerpt field and how do I edit that? Within the admin page?
Do I have to input the info twice? Once in the regular text area and again in the excerpt field?

[Nico]

Hey Raylene,

Thanks for following up on this!

The excerpt is editable in the edit event screen in the WordPress admin. Make sure the ‘Except’ panel is active: https://cloudup.com/cjIA98JrCwu

If you always want to show the same information in the event ‘summary’ (in the events list) and in the event ‘single view’, maybe it’s easier to edit the event list template so you don’t have to input the same information twice. The process of doing is simple, I’ll describe it below but be sure to check our Themer’s guide to get the details on this. Here we go:

– Inside your theme folder wp-content\themes\your_theme\ create the following folder structure: tribe\list\.
– Make a copy of the file: wp-content\plugins\the-events-calendar\src\views\list\single-event.php
– Drop the copied file into the just created folder: wp-content\themes\your_theme\tribe\list\.
– Edit the file and change line 69:

// replace this
<?php the_excerpt() ?>
// with
<?php the_content() ?>


That should do the trick and show the event full content in the event list!

Please let me know if any of these options -adding an excerpt or overriding the template- solve your issue,
Best,
Nico

[Raylene]

Nico,

Re: The excerpt is editable in the edit event screen in the WordPress admin. Make sure the ‘Except’ panel is active: https://cloudup.com/cjIA98JrCwu

I don’t see those options. I see:
Author / Event / Categories / Tags / Comments / Recurring / Start Date / End Date

When I view my active plug ins, it shows both Event Calendar and Event Calendar Pro. Should I deactivate the free one so the Pro version takes over? Could that be the issue as to why I don’t see the Excerpt panel? It shows that both are activated…

[Nico]

Hey Raylene,

Thanks for following and sorry for the delayed reply!

I don’t see those options. I see:
Author / Event / Categories / Tags / Comments / Recurring / Start Date / End Date

Sorry for the misunderstanding here, but the options you mention are the ones shown in the ‘Events List’ screen in the backed, and I was referring to the ‘Edit Event’ screen. My bad here. Please let me know if you can find the option now.

Regarding the plugins, both must be active! This is correct and I don’t think it can affect the ‘Excerpt’ panel.

Cheers,
Nico

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