conflicts with WooThemes Canvas

[actualcafe]

I’m running Woothemes Canvas at actualcafe.com. I just updated WordPress, Canvas and all my plugins, and introduced tri.be’s ‘The Event Calendar’ plugin to display events.

I’ve got three issues related to events:
1) the page at /events (generated by The Event Calendar) is not configurable as a page per se, and I’m not able to override the WooSidebars default widget sidebar for the page. I’ve tried doing this by selecting a page template to which I want to apply the new sidebar and selecting the same page template in the config of The Events Calendar, to no effect.

2) When on /events, both the ‘events’ and ‘blog’ menu items in my top nav are highlighted. I fixed this problem once, but it’s back, and I don’t remember what I did to fix it the first time.

3) I’ve set The Events Calendar to ‘include events in main blog loop’, but on the canvas blog page, they’re not displayed (they do display properly in Twenty Twelve).

I’m not sure which of these issues are due to Canvas and which to The Event Calendar. I’ve submitted the same ticket to the Woo folks.

thanks
sal

[Barry]

Hi Sal,

Let me try to address these points in turn:

the page at /events (generated by The Event Calendar) is not configurable as a page per se, and I’m not able to override the WooSidebars default widget sidebar for the page.

I don’t believe it will be possible to do this using all three plugins/themes “out of the box”. Instead we’d recommend customizing your events templates to achieve the effect you’re after. Our Themer’s Guide is a great resource if you are new to some of the concepts used when customizing The Events Calendar.

When on /events, both the ‘events’ and ‘blog’ menu items in my top nav are highlighted. I fixed this problem once, but it’s back, and I don’t remember what I did to fix it the first time.

We hope to fix this in an upcoming maintenance release – in the interim a CSS fix can be used that stops parent menu items from being highlighted. Do let us know if you want help with that (ideally by creating a separate thread, as we try to stick to one-issue-per-thread) but we appreciate that isn’t always going to be an acceptable solution.

I’ve set The Events Calendar to ‘include events in main blog loop’, but on the canvas blog page, they’re not displayed (they do display properly in Twenty Twelve).

I’m not actually sure if this will help in your particular case but it could be worth a try: can you add this snippet to you theme’s functions.php file (noting that, ordinarily, you need not include the opening <?php tag) and see if that helps?

Thanks!

[actualcafe]

Barry:
Thanks for the response.
On issue #1, I’ll check out Themer’s Guide (thanks for the link), and open a new post if I’m still stuck (which I think I might be). The problem that I’m trying to solve is that I need a hook to use a set of sidebar widgets that I’ve defined and that work great on other pages, but I have no idea how to create that hook. I don’t want to replicate the widgets and have to worry about maintaining multiple copies of the same code.

On issue #2, I have no idea how to proceed on this. I’ll open a new thread on it.

On issue #3, I added the snippet you referenced to my functions.php – this had no effect.

sal

[Barry]

I don’t want to replicate the widgets and have to worry about maintaining multiple copies of the same code.

I can definitely appreciate where you’re coming from here – it may be worth asking the authors of WooSidebars if there is a template tag you can leverage to accomplish this (which you might then use from within a custom events template).

I added the snippet you referenced to my functions.php – this had no effect.

Thanks for trying – that being the case however please do go ahead and remove it if you haven’t already done so.

When you opened this thread you noted that you had tried reverting to a default, unmodified theme and turning off all other plugins except for those my Modern Tribe: did these steps impact on this specific problem in any way and were you able to isolate either your theme or another plugin as triggering this issue?

Thanks!

[actualcafe]

Barry:

Reverting to default theme with no plugins removes by ability to assign widgets by page. That ability is provided in my site by the WooSidebars plugin. Because the events calendar page is not a ‘page’, and there’s no template that WooSidebars can operate on, I cannot assign the set of widgets that I want to use for the page.

sal

[Barry]

I understand that, but these are quite separate issues and we have to treat and diagnose them as such – this is also why we suggest creating separate threads for separate issues, as it can avoid confusion.

In this case, one issue is the integration of WooSidebars and The Events Calendar. The other (which my troubleshooting suggestion related to) is the issue of events not showing in the main blog loop when you have explicitly set a setting to enable just that.

So, yes, by extension disabling all other plugins will indeed (temporarily) remove the effects of your WooSidebars plugin – but it would also allow us to determine if this is an unfortunate side effect created by another plugin or if it is in fact a facet of our plugin and your theme.

[actualcafe]

Barry:

On blog/event intermingling:

I indicated in my initial post that the event and blog posts are properly intermingled when using the Twenty Twelve theme, on the same page (/theblog). Switching back to Canvas (without activating any other plugins) removes events from blog display, so it’s pretty clear that it’s a Canvas conflict and not another plugin causing the issue.

sal

[Barry]

Okey dokey, hang tight and we’ll see if we can replicate using Canvas.

[Barry]

Thanks for your patience actualcafe: can I confirm that since creating this thread you have updated to version 3.1 (of both our plugins) and let me know if that has made any difference here?

Thanks!

[Kelly]

Hi, actualcafe. As it’s been over two weeks since your last reply, I’m going to close this thread. Please open a new one if you choose to pursue this further in the future.

Thanks for being part of the TEC community! 🙂

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