Concerns since upgrading to v3

[Derek]

Hi – apologies that I’m a bit behind the curve, but I’ve only just updated to v3, and renewed my licence.
Quite a few concerns have come up since the upgrade, which I wonder if you could comment on please (I’ve just tried deactivating all other plugins and switching to the twenty twelve theme, and all are still present).

1) I no longer have a Next Event Widget. I used this previously as it displayed an excerpt from the event text. I can’t see any equivilent of this now, the only widgets only display the event title and date, and allow me (by way of checkboxes) to include or exclude items like price… nothing on the actual body of text, featured image etc.

2) Several months on the full calendar (/events/) go wider than the template allows. To confirm, I’ve tried this in twenty twelve (with all other plugins deactivated) and it still occurs. October & November are good examples of this. In Twenty Twelve, it crashes into the sidebar, in my theme, it goes over the edge of the page.

3) When updating Recurring events, the “Save Recurring Event” dialog box greys the entire screen, and I cannot select (with either cursor or keyboard) the options “Only this event” or “All Events”. I can fortunately press enter (I assume this selects “only this event” to get out of the grey screen.

4) Previously in v2, the mini calendar would display the event as a tool tip when hovered over. I’ve searched the forums for all 4 of my issues before posting and I note that another user has raised this, and the reply was that tool tips are not supported in the current version. I wonder if you could provide any further comment on this please, as I can’t see the value of a calendar that shows plenty of events, but not what the events are… I appreciate if a visitor clicks on the day in question the events appear below, but as a user I would to already know by that point what fills the calendar on that day, and that the click would take me to more info on the event.

Thanks in advance for taking a look through these concerns.
Derek

[Barry]

Hi Derek, let me try to answer each point in turn – but as I guess is quite possible if you want to take the discussion further on more than one point it would be appreciated if you could break things out into separate threads 🙂

I no longer have a Next Event Widget. I used this previously as it displayed an excerpt from the event text.

That’s right, we dropped it as it was essentially, behind the scenes, the same widget as the Upcoming Events widget (now the Events List widget). To display only the next event with this widget you can set it to display just one event – and adding extras like an event description or excerpt can be done with a fairly straightforward customization (see our themer’s guide https://theeventscalendar.com/support/documentation/events-calendar-themers-guide/ for the basics of this).

Several months on the full calendar (/events/) go wider than the template allows. To confirm, I’ve tried this in twenty twelve (with all other plugins deactivated) and it still occurs. October & November are good examples of this.

If you have very long words within a table cell that is, unfortunately, going to be a problem.

But really we’d have to turn this one back on you: how would you like to deal with this? There are numerous strategies that may or may not be agreeable here – I don’t think there is a one size fits all solution – but we can certainly point you in the direction of some CSS or other minor changes that might help, so long as we have an idea of what you want to do 🙂

When updating Recurring events, the “Save Recurring Event” dialog box greys the entire screen, and I cannot select (with either cursor or keyboard) the options “Only this event” or “All Events”.

We hope to fix this (it’s a known bug that surfaced with the release of WordPress 3.6) in a forthcoming maintenance release. In the meantime it’s worth trying a workaround like this one, which we made available in our list of useful snippets over on the right.

I appreciate if a visitor clicks on the day in question the events appear below, but as a user I would to already know by that point what fills the calendar on that day, and that the click would take me to more info on the event.

We have indeed taken a new direction with this widget – and are open to your feedback. If you want to see it change back to something closer to the equivalent widget from 2.0.x, for example, or have other ideas, please do post feature requests:

https://tribe.uservoice.com/forums/195723-feature-ideas

We take any and all suggestions seriously and UserVoice also makes it easy for other users to voice their approval.

Thanks!

[Derek]

Thanks for your reply Barry, I’ll take a look at these and let you know the outcome.

[Derek]

OK, so after reading through the themer’s guide, I’m presuming for the “Event List” customisation, I would need to change “widget-list.class.php”. I’m not sure;
a) what exactly to change / add (I’m surprised nobody has asked this before?)
b) if I change it here, will it then display the description of the event in every instance of the widget? I will now be using multiple instances of the Event List widget – one for the upcoming event, with description, and another to show the 5 most recent events – date, time, title only – so I don’t want the description showing up in the second instance of the widget.

[Barry]

Hi Derek,

So you would probably find it easiest to locate: events-calendar-pro/views/widgets/list-widget.php

And override it by placing a copy here: {your-theme}/tribe-events/widgets/list-widget.php

You could then add the description with a bit of code like this (you might insert it on a new line just after the closing } brace on line 38, going by the original template code):

<div class="description"> <?php the_content() ?> </div>

if I change it here, will it then display the description of the event in every instance of the widget?

Yes. So you have a few options if that isn’t desirable:

* You could build a new widget to do what you want here – not as difficult as it may sound, you could save yourself a lot of work by building on top of and inheriting much of the existing widget code – though you would need a good grasp of PHP and WordPress development to do this

* You could test to see if the widget is set to display just one event and display the description only in those cases, by changing the_content() to something like if (1 == $widget_args[‘limit’]) the_content() (with reference to the above outlined change).

Does that help at all?

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