Change Wording, Add Wording, and 2 issues

[Susan Haebig]

Hi,
Our site is live now! It is the first site I have ever built, so be nice:) Below is what I need help with. Thank you! Sue
Wording (how to):
1. Change Events to Activities in all instances.
2. Change < Back to Events to < Statewide Activities.
3. Add wording to Calendar View (Categories instructions).
Problems:
1. In the list view, Book Covers render too large no matter what I do. See Statewide Listing, May 10th and 11th for examples.
2. Reoccurring Event (See All) is covered up on some of the local area pages. They are clickable on the statewide listing (Upcoming Events) page

[George]

Hey Susan,

Thanks for reaching out!

You have posed numerous customization-related questions here, and while I will try to help, I do just want to highlight the fact that we unfortunately cannot help with customizing/tweaking/design-related questions. Please read more about this here → https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/what-support-is-provided-for-license-holders/

Now, despite that general policy, I will try to help with the things you listed and at least point you in the right direction to get started.

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1. Change Events to Activities in all instances.

☝️ You can do this by following the steps on this page → https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/changing-the-word-events-to-something-else/

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2. Change < Back to Events to < Statewide Activities.

☝️ This is a bit trickier to do, and may require theme customization. By default, our plugin only adds a link called “< All Events”—not “< Back to Events”. This may seem like a trivial difference, but it’s not, because that “< Back to Events” link you are referring to could be coming from your theme.

Now, the process in step #1 will at least change the text from “< Back to Events” to “< Back to Activities”. To modify the “Back to” part, though, I would recommend diving into your theme code to explore this might be coming from. Feel free to contact your theme developer for assistance there!

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3. Add wording to Calendar View (Categories instructions).

☝️ Adding things to calendar views can be done in two primary ways. If you are just trying to add text before or after the views, then simply head to Events > Settings in your site’s wp-admin. Once here, head to the Display tab and then scroll down to “Advanced Template Settings”. You’ll have two text areas where you can add content before the Views and after the Views.

If you need to more than these textareas offer, then unfortunately you will have to write custom templates with your content added in them. You can learn how to do this here → https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/themers-guide/

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In closing, the last two problems you mention are things related to the CSS design of your theme. Like all customizations and tweaks here, you will fundamentally have to take the reins on fixing these problems yourself, or contact your theme author for further theme design-related assistance.

As a quick example of things, let’s take a look at the book cover issue. You can make the book covers look better by adding the following CSS to the bottom of your theme’s style.css file:


.tribe-events-list .tribe-events-event-image img {
width: auto !important;
}


Adding this will fix the book covers but will often leave a wide gap between the image and the text, though. 🙁 So further tweaking is required.

To write custom CSS like this on your site more easily, definitely check out a [free!] tool like Firebug if you use FireFox, or the Developer Tools for either Safari or Chrome. They have “Inspector” tools that let you zoom right over the element whose styles you want to change, like the book covers or the “See all” links and whatnot.

In closing, if you do not feel comfortable making these sorts of modifications on your own, then your best bet is to hire a professional developer to write the code for you. We have a list of great developers here → http://m.tri.be/18k1 (and have no affiliation with any of these folks—they’re simply some well-respected names in the community that we’ve compiled to share with folks).

Sincerely,
George

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