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Although I appreciate that you are attempting to provide some widgets, I want more control over the few I have. Please advise if any of this is possible.
(1) Calendar widget: Ideally I’d like the list below the calendar grid to not be there at all and instead, have tooltips appear when an event is hovered over. But I understand this is functionality that isn’t there right now. Having said that, I’d at the very least like to LIMIT the number of events that appear. Unfortunately it seems you haven’t provided this option in the shortcodes. You’ve got it there for the calendar list, but not for the calendar (grid). IS IT POSSIBLE TO LIMIT the number of events that appear?
(2) Also, I’d like NO EVENTS to appear below the calendar/grid if no events are present for that day. Again, I’m trying to mitigate the styling of that calendar grid. I don’t like it at all, and being able to control the list beneath the grid might help a little.
(3) The other thing I don’t like (at least not each and every time) is the “box style” you provide for the date in the list calendar. It’s okay some of the time, but is just too big and bulky for a lot of treatments. I actually prefer the list style in the FREE version but don’t see a way to get that to appear without a tremendous amount of CSS hacks. Again, is there something built into the code that might make this easier to produce — not across the board — but on individual lists on the site.
Thanks.
Howdy Kary,
I would love to help you with this. In short, all of what you want is possible. Depending on your needs some of it may require some modification, such as CSS or template overrides.
(1) Calendar widget: Ideally I’d like the list below the calendar grid to not be there at all and instead, have tooltips appear when an event is hovered over. But I understand this is functionality that isn’t there right now. Having said that, I’d at the very least like to LIMIT the number of events that appear. Unfortunately it seems you haven’t provided this option in the shortcodes. You’ve got it there for the calendar list, but not for the calendar (grid). IS IT POSSIBLE TO LIMIT the number of events that appear?
This is only an option in the widget by setting the count to 0. In the shortcode there is a problem with the WordPress API that is causing 0 to appear as empty or nonexistent, and thus the default is used instead which is 5. We are investigating how to workaround this in future versions of our plugin. Until then the best solution available is using CSS to hide the list.
(2) Also, I’d like NO EVENTS to appear below the calendar/grid if no events are present for that day. Again, I’m trying to mitigate the styling of that calendar grid. I don’t like it at all, and being able to control the list beneath the grid might help a little.
If you hide all events by setting the count to 0 it will not appear regardless of whether there are event on that day or now. So it sounds like the above might help you here as well. If you need more granual control than this you will need to modify the template using our Themer’s Guide.
(3) The other thing I don’t like (at least not each and every time) is the “box style” you provide for the date in the list calendar. It’s okay some of the time, but is just too big and bulky for a lot of treatments. I actually prefer the list style in the FREE version but don’t see a way to get that to appear without a tremendous amount of CSS hacks. Again, is there something built into the code that might make this easier to produce — not across the board — but on individual lists on the site.
I hear you there. Actually the box dates were included by popular demand, we had a large number of people vote on a feature request to put that design in all shortcode views. On the one hand we would love to make this an option you could enable/disable. On the other any options we add make template modification by users like you more obtuse, and we have to carefully weigh such things. Indeed our current options are a result of very carefully measuring usage and weighing this matter, not the result of a lack of development time. It is somewhat unlikely that the datebox will ever become a toggle you can show/hide. But if you are knowledgeable in WP then it is very easy to completely and elegantly hide them using a theme override . Or, if you prefer CSS you can easily hide them that way as well.
Does that all make sense? Will that work for you? Please let me know.
Cheers!
– Brook
Okay…so if I’m understanding you correctly, there isn’t currently a way to limit the number of posts that appear below the mini calendar. That’s too bad. It’s either “all on” or “all off.” Not sure what I’ll do but hopefully ya’ll will get that functionality working as I think its an important feature. The whole point of a mini calendar is to put it in a small space and not take up too much room. Many events on one day causes all kinds of problems.
As for the ugly date box style, I CSSed the hell out of it. I would like to suggest you add a second list style in the pro version. It doesn’t need a toggle. Just give us a “simple list style” and a “regular list style.” That way, we can choose which one we want via the shortcode.
I’m leaving this be for now. I like your plugin. But it takes a LOT of tweaking, overriding and finagling to get it to work the way I need it to. I’ve spent a lot of time and need to just say “enough” for now. Since this isn’t an easy fix I’m just going to mark this one “not resolved” but it on the back burner for now. You can close this thread.
Okay…so if I’m understanding you correctly, there isn’t currently a way to limit the number of posts that appear below the mini calendar. That’s too bad. It’s either “all on” or “all off.” Not sure what I’ll do but hopefully ya’ll will get that functionality working as I think its an important feature. The whole point of a mini calendar is to put it in a small space and not take up too much room. Many events on one day causes all kinds of problems.
That’s not quite what I am trying to convey. For the widget there is the Count option box. Set this to zero to hide the list entirely, set it to any other number to adjust the amount of events viewable under the Minical.
For the shortcode there is the count argument [tribe_mini_calendar count=”1″] . It works great as well except when set to zero. Due to a constraint from the WP API when set to zero it will display five items. We’d like to workaround this in a future version of the plugin.
As for the ugly date box style, I CSSed the hell out of it. I would like to suggest you add a second list style in the pro version. It doesn’t need a toggle. Just give us a “simple list style” and a “regular list style.” That way, we can choose which one we want via the shortcode.
Excellent! I am happy to hear you were able to tweak it.
What you just described is what I meant by a toggle. It is the sort of thing that adds complexity to the theme files, files we try to keep as simple as possible so they are easy to modify for folks who don’t like the default.
I’m leaving this be for now. I like your plugin. But it takes a LOT of tweaking, overriding and finagling to get it to work the way I need it to. I’ve spent a lot of time and need to just say “enough” for now. Since this isn’t an easy fix I’m just going to mark this one “not resolved” but it on the back burner for now. You can close this thread.
For sure. I appreciate your giving me permission to close. All of our topics autoclose after 2 weeks, but I’ll leave this open until then just in case you decide to revisit it. Either way it’s no sweat on our end just want to make things as convenient as possible.
Cheers!
– Brook
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