Custom Templates Showing Two Events

[flipp]

I’m trying to use custom events template but the page loads two events, the first with an ID of -9999 (which of course doesn’t exist) and the second being the correct one.

You should be able to easily reproduce this by simply copying the ‘default-template.php’ file from ‘/plugins/the-events-calendar/views/’ to ‘/themes/mytheme/’ and insert the line “Template Name: My Event Template” to make WordPress see it as a template.

Once you change the events template in “The Events Calendar Settings > Display” you should see that it now renders two templates. The first one has no fields to display since it tries to load ID: -9999 but it does render the rest of the skeleton including the “<< All Events” links ect.

This is a major issue for us right now, the default template doesn’t work for our client and it looks like the only way around this currently is to edit the plugin views directly, however any changes made there will be lost if the plugin is updated in the future.

[adamfitz]

I just hit this too. It’s something in the way it’s loading custom templates. If you move your custom page template to //tribe-events/default-template.php and change the events template back to default, it will render properly again with your custom code.

[adamfitz]

That should be *your theme*/tribe-events/default-template.php (I lost some ampersands)

[Jonah]

Hi guys,

Yes, using the default-template.php file in the root of your theme will not work. You need to place it in a ‘tribe-events’ folder. You cannot use this as a standard WordPress page template, so adding a template name like flipp has done will have unforseen consequences but this is not how we’ve designed our plugin to work and you would need to do your own modifications in order to get it to work this way.

Regards,
Jonah

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