Community Events Plugin Challenging

[David]

I love the look and feel of your calendar, but… our new website isn’t even live yet, and we’ve already discovered several issues with the Community Events ad-on:

1) Users cannot login if the “allow anonymous submissions” is unchecked. They get booted out and sent to the WP login screen. This issue has been discussed here on your forum.
2) I would be happy to allow anonymous users to add events, but reCaptcha doesn’t show up properly and users can’t override it. I have another recaptcha plugin activated, and it sounds (from reading the forum) that they interfere with one another.
3) Since #1 and #2 don’t work, I would be okay using a Facebook login, but it’s not available. I might suggest adding this option.
4) If using #2, there is no easy way to deactivate fields (i.e. we are in Mexico, so the state field doesn’t work). It would be an easy add-on for your team to add check boxes so we could customize our calendar fields.
5) Also if using #2, I would need to remove the option to add to maps, but I can’t. (Google maps does not have all streets marked in our small area.)

6) Or — As an alternative, and since you allow new events to be “pending,” you could include a check box to send a notification statement to let users know that their events will be posted shortly. This would be an AWEsome addition and would solve all my issues!

Can anyone help me… please.

[Nico]

Hi Allyson,

Thanks for reaching out and sorry to hear your issue here!

First of all let me say it’s very difficult to identify legit bugs here as you are not able to test for conflicts. Do you think it’s possible to create a staging sit to test/fix this issues? It’s a really useful practice in web development as rolling updates and un-tested changes in the live site is really risky!

1) Users cannot login if the “allow anonymous submissions” is unchecked. They get booted out and sent to the WP login screen. This issue has been discussed here on your forum.

You mention this was discussed previously in the forums, Can you link me to the past thread?

2) I would be happy to allow anonymous users to add events, but reCaptcha doesn’t show up properly and users can’t override it. I have another recaptcha plugin activated, and it sounds (from reading the forum) that they interfere with one another.

That’s possible. Can you temporary disable the other reCaptcha plugin and re-rest to confirm this incompatibility?

3) Since #1 and #2 don’t work, I would be okay using a Facebook login, but it’s not available. I might suggest adding this option.

You can suggest this feature at The Events Calendar user voice page, that’s were we gather feedback from our community regarding feature requests and ideas.

4) If using #2, there is no easy way to deactivate fields (i.e. we are in Mexico, so the state field doesn’t work). It would be an easy add-on for your team to add check boxes so we could customize our calendar fields.

This can be achieved with an override of the ‘submit event’ template. Are you familiarized with the Themer’s guide and template overrides?

5) Also if using #2, I would need to remove the option to add to maps, but I can’t. (Google maps does not have all streets marked in our small area.)

Same as #4, for both cases hiding the fields via CSS should work as well.

6) Or — As an alternative, and since you allow new events to be “pending,” you could include a check box to send a notification statement to let users know that their events will be posted shortly. This would be an AWEsome addition and would solve all my issues!

There’s an action you can hook to in order to send that email notification. The action is tribe_community_event_created, it receives the newly created event_id as parameter.

Please let me know about all these items, and again please consider having a staging/testing site it will surely make your life easier in the future (not only for our plugin),
Best,
Nico

[David]

This reply is private.

[Nico]

Hey Allyson,

Thanks for following up on this!

1) I want to know how you removed the link for the venue name in your plugin screenshot.

That’s because Events Calendar PRO adds venue and organizer pages. In core version, those don’t have a ‘single page’ for them so they are not linked. To achieve this same behavior in Events Calendar PRO you can create a template override of the venue template module located at ‘wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/src/views/modules/meta/venue.php’ (for details on how to create the template override check out our Themer’s guide) and replace:

tribe_get_venue()

with:

get_the_title( tribe_get_venue_id() )

Same goes for organizers: the template is located in the same folder and it’s called ‘organizer.php’. In the template override you should replace:

tribe_get_organizer( $organizer )

with:

get_the_title( $organizer )


2) I have discovered that the organizer field isn’t showing up on the front end, but I see there is an open thread on that, so I’m waiting for a fix.

I see Geoff got back to you, and will surely keep you posted on this.

3) Do you know what would cause the time fields to sit under one another like this?

This is a styling issue, a general input style from your theme is affecting the fields. You should re-set / override the style for those fields!

Please let me know if there’s anything else I can do for you,
Best,
Nico

[David]

Thanks Nico,

Before I pass this on to my programmers, I just want to make sure the fix for #1 will remove the drop-down fields for both, correct?

Also, I never got a reply from Geoff about the organizer issue and his last post is marked private. Is there an update?

[Nico]

Hey Allyson,

Before I pass this on to my programmers, I just want to make sure the fix for #1 will remove the drop-down fields for both, correct?

The solution I provided is to remove the links to Venues and Organizers in the single event view (as shown in the screenshot #3 for Single event here). I understood that was you were referring to in your previous messages! If I got this wrong and what you want is to remove is the Venue and Organizer combos in the Community submission form (or other thing…) please let me know.

I’ll ping Geoff to see if there’s new info on that issue. The last reply was for you stating he’ll keep you updated (I guess you weren’t able to see it as it’s a private reply and you aren’t the post author).

Best,
Nico

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