Calendar Pro Views with Current Theme

[Edward]

Hello, I just purchased the full plugin and have noticed it is not showing up correctly on my current site.

I need some help to get this working, I think it needs maybe a couple small tweaks in code or maybe you already know how to do this.

I’m using a theme called shuffle that comes with an events section that doesn’t work for what the site needs. All past events are already in this section from a previous theme.

However, we are migrating everything to your plugin so that if when we make theme changes again, we don’t have to migrate all the content again every time.

The site doesn’t have massive amounts of events so if only one or two are on the upcoming, it looks empty.

We need help to make the plugin have all the events upcoming and past in one category view, similar to how if you click on a blog category, all posts show up – current to oldest.

The old events section that we dont want to use, does this, so if we can’t get the events calendar to do the same, we won’t be able to use it, thats what i’m trying to confirm.

Also, to have the event date and time on the excerpt would be great, somehow get the events from the plugin streaming through as blog posts, so the latest news widgets gets events too, this would help get those posts with visual composer.

Is this something you can help with? Please let me know details and feedback of how we can work together to get this done. I believe if we can get this working, your plugin will be our choice.

I’ll send over the credentials once confirmed, thank you very much for your help.

Kindly,
Edward

[Edward]

Attached are the current views of the calendar pro plugin
and then the theme’s events view (which is what we need the plugin to do)
-afterwards, we need to make sure the calendar pro plugin events are included in the latest news / blog feed widgets

[Geoff B.]

Good evening Edward and welcome to the Events Calendar forum!

Thank you for your interest in our products.
We’ll be glad to answer your questions.

We need help to make the plugin have all the events upcoming and past in one category view, similar to how if you click on a blog category, all posts show up – current to oldest.

The good news is that you can absolutely tweak any view in your calendar to your liking (e.g.: the photo view in your case).

You might want to read our Themer’s guide to get a sense of how that works.

I think it would require a custom query to show both past and upcoming events on the same page using the tribe_get_events() function in a new page template. We actually have a pretty nice tutorial that walks through how that function is used with examples that should help you get started.

Also, to have the event date and time on the excerpt would be great

Actually, that should normally be part of the Photo view. Could you give an example URL where that is not the case for you ?

somehow get the events from the plugin streaming through as blog posts, so the latest news widgets gets events too, this would help get those posts with visual composer.

This option exists under Events -> Settings -> General. Look for Include events in main blog loop.

Finally, if coding is not really your thing, you could hire one of our recommended customizers to do the customization for you.

Let me know if that helps.

Have a great day!

Geoff B.

[Edward]

Yes, please that would be great
The date and time is there, I didn’t realize it at first, but want to make sure the event venue and address show up in the excerpt too.

I tried that setting for include the events in the blog loop, but for some reason, its not working

regarding the date and time, the previous events, have venue and address data entered into them, but they don’t show it in the category / excerpt view.

is there a quick way you can check on those things, they should work automatically I would think, regarding the upcoming and past events, I may need to get someone to do that custom wise – for me, I don’t know if I would break it first before fix it lol

[Geoff B.]

Good evening Edward,

Thank you for writing back.

The date and time is there, I didn’t realize it at first, but want to make sure the event venue and address show up in the excerpt too. regarding the date and time, the previous events, have venue and address data entered into them, but they don’t show it in the category / excerpt view.

That can be accomplished via a template customization with our themer’s guide.

I tried that setting for include the events in the blog loop, but for some reason, its not working

That is odd.

Could you please send me a copy of the latest version of your WordPress theme / child theme via a link to a .zip file link (stored Dropbox or Google Drive) so that I can run some tests on my end ? I recommend a private reply for that purpose.

Please ensure you are using the latest files as found on your actual website.
This way I will get access to any updates or customizations you might have made.

is there a quick way you can check on those things, they should work automatically I would think, regarding the upcoming and past events, I may need to get someone to do that custom wise – for me, I don’t know if I would break it first before fix it lol

Just to set expectations,the scope of our support is mostly to get our customers started on the right track and to help them in case of issues.

We unfortunately do not provide complete support for customization.

So in other words, we have built our plugins so that they can be customized to the different people’s needs, but unfortunately, anything beyond the built-in features is a customization.

With that in mind, we constantly come up with snippets in our forums and extensions: https://theeventscalendar.com/extensions/

However, we do not tackle view customizations such as yours ourselves.
That will have to be done with the help of our themer’s guide or a recommend customizer (as can be seen in my previous reply).

I would recommend giving the themer’s guide a shot, it’s actually not that bad and I could help you in the process. I would recommend doing that on a staging/test environment if you can.

Best regards,

Geoff B.

 

[Edward]

This reply is private.

[Geoff B.]

Good evening Edward,

Thank you for writing back.

Actually, just to clarify, my offer is to take a look at your theme and get a sense of why our events are not showing up in your blog loop.

For that purpose, would it be possible to get a copy of the Shuffle theme ?

Additionally, if you have questions while using the themer’s guide, I will gladly assist you.

 

Have a good weekend,

Geoff B.

 

[Edward]

This reply is private.

[Geoff B.]

Good evening Edward,

Thank you for the files.

For good measure, I even tested with the following extension: https://theeventscalendar.com/extensions/advanced-options-for-adding-events-to-the-main-blog-loop/

As I suspected, in the Shuffle theme, the blog loop is specifically limited to basic WordPress posts.

You can see that by quickly reverting back to a default WordPress theme such as twenty-sixteen.
The events show alongside the normal blog posts.

The best workaround I could suggest for now is to run your blog loop through a normal page where you are using Visual Composer’s Post Masonry Grid. This could work if you use the custom query setting to also include tribe_events posts (instead of just posts).

I wish I had a better answer for you, but for now it’s the best one I have.

Best regards,

Geoff B.

[Edward]

Hello Geoff, that is really helpful, thank you so much for your time and research

Wjat you suggest, just might be a solution, we are using visual composer for the homepage where it needs to be added – only thing is I’m not sure what coding we would use – just a text block with the short code you mentioned? Would that show upcoming and past in one stream too?

This sounds like we might be getting closer, thank you so much for your help

Kindly,

Edward Unger

[Geoff B.]

Good evening Edward,

Thank you for writing back.

As you might know, the scope of our support is mostly to get our customers started on the right track and to help them in case of issues.

We unfortunately do not provide complete support for customization.

With that in mind, if you try the Post Masonry Grid, you can see how you can switch from “posts” to “tribe_events” (one at a time).

To customize the query, according to Visual Composer’s documentation, you need to follow WordPress Codex’s guidelines.

I would recommend asking them for more information on how their tool works.
But I am pretty sure that it is a very viable workaround for your specific situation.

If coding is really not your thing and you can’t get help from these guys, you could hire one of our recommended customizers to do the customization for you.

Best of luck and let me know how that goes.

Best regards,
Geoff B.

 

[Edward]

Hello,

Do you know by chance wjat files are the ones that need to be edited to change the upcoming and previous to the same page?

[Geoff B.]

Good evening Edward,

Thank you for writing back.

Each view can be tweaked individually to show custom queries.

Your best bet is to find the files you are looking for by reading our Themer’s guide to get a sense of how that works.

Once that is done, I would recommend reading about how to do custom queries here:

1. https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/using-tribe_get_events/
2. https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/custom-event-queries/

Let me know how that goes.

Best regards,
Geoff B.

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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