Community Events – Add Organizer / Add another rule

[CDC]

Hi,

We have implemented the events calendar along with the community events page so people can add their own events – we have made it so that people don’t need to register/sign up to create an event, but are facing a couple of issues with the submission page (‘Submit An Event’)

Firstly, the ‘Add Organizer’ section doesn’t have fields to enter a new organizer (like the venue details section does). When clicking the ‘add organizer’ link/button, all it does it re-direct to the top of the page.

This is similar with the ‘Add another rule’ – upon clicking, it reloads/refreshes the page completely.

Thus, someone interested in submitting an event is incapable to add a new organizer (but only choose from the list of already listed organizers) or a new rule.

Please help – thanks!

• This topic was modified 10 years, 4 months ago by CDC.

[Josh]

Hey CDC,

Thanks for reaching out to us!

Which version of the plugin are you currently running on your site? It looks like there was a bug similar to what you’re describing that should have been addressed in the 4.0.1 release. Are you running the latest version of the plugin (version 4.0.2)?

Thanks!

[CDC]

Hi Josh,

Thanks for getting back to us – we are actually running the latest version of the plugin (v 4.0.2).

Thanks

[Josh]

Hey CDC,

Thanks for following up!

I did some testing locally but was unable to replicate the issues you’re describing. Based on what you’re describing, it sounds like there is a javascript error on the event submission page. As an initial test, have you tried following the Testing for Conflicts procedures to see what may be the cause of the issue.

You could also use the developer’s tools within your browser to check the source for the page and it should show you some red error messages to give a little more information about what the conflict is.

Let me know if this helps.

Thanks!

[CDC]

Hi Josh,

Thanks for the Testing for Conflicts procedure – I have gone through the steps and can confirm that after the testing, we have a plugin conflict with:

Better WordPress Minify (v. 1.3.3)

Basically, when we disable this plugin, we can add another rule (in the normal way) and the Add Organizer shows up the fields and allows us to click to add another organizer. When this plugin was active, we weren’t able to see the fields to add an organizer (e.g. name etc.), we were only able to see and click the ‘Add another organizer’ text, which would re-direct to the top of the page. Of course, when we disabled this plugin, a lot of the formatting changed (sizing of buttons, font etc.).

I will add the system information in a separate message so you can see.

Let me know if you have any suggestions on how to fix.

Thanks!

[CDC]

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[Josh]

Hey CDC,

Thanks for following up and for your patience as we were away over the holiday season.

The conflict here makes sense. Plugins that do work to modify (or in this case minify) other plugin scripts can commonly cause errors. This is the same issue with other caching plugins that have minification and concatenation features and can impact many other plugins other than just our calendar plugin.

Unfortunately there isn’t a simple workaround that we can provide for this particular issue other than disabling the minification plugin. Alternatives would be to review the other plugins’ settings to see if there are options for disabling the feature for particular resources or to manually handle the minification of third-party resources without the use of the plugin.

I’m sorry I wasn’t able to give you more details on this one however hopefully it helps to point you in the right direction.

Thanks!

[CDC]

Hi there,

I have tried disabling the ‘Better WordPress Minify’ plugin and though the ‘Add Organizer’ and ‘Add Rule’ functions work – they extend to the full width of the page and don’t follow the rest of the styling of the page.

In addition, the currency symbol field is cut not showing the full text – which I had fixed earlier in the custom CSS. Is there a reason for this? Would there be a way to work around the plugin if activated?

Please see the page I am describing here – http://dev.cdchk.org/events/community/add/

Is this how the page naturally should display or have we disabled some of the styling settings by deactivating the ‘Better WordPress Minify’ plugin?

Thanks,
CDC

[Josh]

Hey CDC,

Looking at the site, it appears that the form fields are inheriting the styles for the fields set by the theme. When using the “Add another organizer” link it loads the new organizer fields and displays just like the other organizer fields https://cloudup.com/cphq1gkB7Oh.

For sizing or spacing concerns you can target each of the fields and set the appropriate size within your theme’s stylesheet or within a “tribe-events.css” file within a “tribe-events” folder within your theme.

Let me know if this helps.

Thanks!

[CDC]

Hi Josh,

Thanks for your reply.

I believe the plugin (Better WordPress Minify) we were using was helping us to override the theme’s style settings and use the default Event Calendar settings? So disabling it makes it look like it does. Is there another easy way to override the theme’s style settings with the default settings of the events calendar/community events style settings?

In terms of editing and customising sizing etc., we had actually done this already in the theme’s custom CSS – but once I disabled the plugin it stopped working. I added the text !important to the line of code and it seemed to work and override the theme settings.

[Nico]

Hey CDC,

Josh is out today, so I’ll try to help you out here 🙂

I believe the plugin (Better WordPress Minify) we were using was helping us to override the theme’s style settings and use the default Event Calendar settings? So disabling it makes it look like it does.

Not sure about the above, maybe it’s minifying a CSS file in some way that’s not taking effect?

Is there another easy way to override the theme’s style settings with the default settings of the events calendar/community events style settings?

That depend’s on how the rules are set up in your theme file. I guess what Josh mentioned before nails it: ...within a “tribe-events.css” file within a “tribe-events” folder within your theme. There you’ll be able to add all customization/overrides you’ll need, keeping that code from the one inside the theme stylesheet. You can also create a Child Theme of the one you are using so these changes won’t get overwritten by a theme update 😉

Please let us know if there’s anything else we can help you with,
Best,
Nico

[CDC]

Hi Nico,

Thanks for replying – will try what you’ve suggested and hopefully it works! I assume it’s just a case of overriding the community events styling with the styling of the default theme’s events.

Hope it works!

Thanks for the help!

[Josh]

Hey CDC,

Sounds good. Let us know what you find after applying the overriding CSS.

Thansk!

[CDC]

Hi Josh,

I hadn’t got round to applying the overriding the CSS, but strangely after disabling the Better WP Minify Plugin to test something else, we noticed that the submission form was working perfectly fine – and none of the styling had been affected (as previously was).

So guess we don’t need to tweak any of the css files! Thanks for all your help!

CDC

[Josh]

Hey CDC,

No problem! I’m happy you were able to find a solution here.

I’ll go ahead and close this thread for now. If you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to open a new one.

Thanks!

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