Colour-coding events

[Clive]

Does anybody know a way of colour coding events when viewed on the month calendar view? Our client runs a horse eventing site so there is the actual show jumping ‘Event’ itself, then there is an entry date and a ballot date. Our client wants to be able to colour code each entry type.

Second issue is I tried following the guide as to how to customise template files, but it didn’t work. In the docs there seems to be a couple of variations as to the correct file structure to achieve template overrides. Tried this which did not work for me: https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/themers-guide/

Lastly does anybody have a list of which templates are used in which part of the plugin? I want to tweak the hover-over tooltip on calendar month view and don’t fancy spending another hour digging around the templates. It would be really good if this had something like WooCommerce where you could see what overrides you are using.

[Barry]

Hi Clive,

Though it’s not an official Modern Tribe plugin a large number of users make use of this plugin to help with colour coding of events:

wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar-category-colors

Perhaps that’s worth a try?

Second issue is I tried following the guide as to how to customise template files, but it didn’t work. In the docs there seems to be a couple of variations as to the correct file structure to achieve template overrides. Tried this which did not work for me: https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/themers-guide/

It should be up-to-date, but let me provide you with an example and perhaps that will clarify things. Say you want to modify the template used to display individual events. You can find this at the following location:

the-events-calendar/views/single-event.php

To override this, you would make a copy and place it in your theme as follows:

your-theme/tribe-events/single-event.php

Of course, change your-theme to whatever your actual theme directory is 🙂

Lastly does anybody have a list of which templates are used in which part of the plugin? I want to tweak the hover-over tooltip on calendar month view and don’t fancy spending another hour digging around the templates.

Beyond what is in the Themer’s Guide, I’m afraid not. To modify the month view tooltips, though, you should look at:

month/single-event.php
month/tooltip.php

Does that help?

[Barry]

Hi! It’s been a while so I’m going to go ahead and close this thread. If we can help with anything else, though, please don’t hesitate to create new threads as needed. Thanks!

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