Calendar Pro Widget Bullets. Again

[Michael]

I have tried all of the suggestions in previous closed posts on removing the bullets on the Events Calendar Pro Widget, but nothing seems to be working. I am not terribly experienced with css, but I have tweaked it here and there succesfully. My the widget is on the page at http://www.ecologyactioncenter.org. Can you help me out?

Thanks!

Michael

[Barry]

Are you comfortable with CSS? Can you try adding a new rule like this one:

li.eventsAdvancedListWidget ul.upcoming li {
background-image: none;
}

[Michael]

I am not particularly comfortable with CSS, but I am good at following directions. As such I have already tried that and the other similar fixes that have been posted to this forum, but with no success. For whatever reason, they aren’t fixing it.

[Barry]

Which file did you add that CSS to – I’m not seeing it anywhere in your stylesheets (nor in the style element in your HTML)?

[Barry]

If you haven’t already done so, could I ask you to copy this file:

wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/resources/events.css

To this location (you may need to create the events subdirectory):

wp-content/themes/{your-theme}/events/events.css

And add the rule I provided to the bottom of that stylesheet? Then let me know so I can take a look with it in place. Thanks!

[Michael]

well now I feel stupid. apparently I had changed it in the wrong location. I have just added it this time utilizing the editor function within WP and the main stylesheet for the site, as opposed to utilizing FTP and manually making the change in what I assumed was the correct stylesheet.

Will this edit that I have just made withstand updates? I read on other solutions to this problem about creating a duplicate “events” folder within the theme to prevent things from changing back when there is an update. However, that approach didn’t work for me.

[Michael]

And thank you very much for your assistance.

[Michael]

Oops, didn’t see your additional post on the events folder. Let me try that, but it sounds like what I have already done. Per my previous post, the bullets are now gone, but I am concerned about them changing back when it updates.

[Michael]

I have now added that additional code to the events.css file within the events folder in the mantra theme. I assume this is what is supposed to make the changes stick? As adding the code to the stylesheet within the WP editor actually already removed the bullets, I am now unsure if this is doing anything. Should I go back and remove the code from the stylesheet?

Thanks.

[Barry]

OK, great! So I took a look and the bullets are gone. I can also see that you made the change to your events/events.css file within your theme as well as to the theme stylesheet itself.

You should only need to do one or the other, but since it’s working you may as well leave what you’ve done in place.

This should persist between plugin updates; the only scenario where it might not persist is if your theme updates and does so destructively (where all pre-existing files in the theme are purged) – usually though the events folder will be untouched.

If you are unsure please feel free to touch base with your theme’s author: there are a variety of techniques to safeguard yourself here including the use of child-themes, but it’s quite possible it will be a non-issue or that your theme author will have some other strategy for implementing customizations that they would rather you follow.

[Michael]

Thank you very much – I greatly appreciate your help!

[Barry]

No problem at all 🙂

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