Customizing – Styling is a pain

[Dieter]

I did read some Tutorial about styling and customizing and must say, this is a pain in the ash and not state of the art for users to copy and paste some files somewhere else to play around.
I know that only Coders are able to adjust most of the things to get good results, as the whole internet is filled with the one and only common base installations of look and feel with this calendar frontend…
Features are nice and useful, the docs are good for coders, I have many problems to understand how this software is dealing with slugs to make the calendar public and styling with a bunch of confusing docs. So if you are targeting to coders only or some few people like to waste too much time with old fashioned useablitiy, its your business.

[Geoff]

Hi Dieter,

Well, shoot, I am certainly disappointed and bummed to hear that the experience of customizing styles on The Events Calendar has not lived up to your expectations. I know we’ve put a lot of effort into making the plugin as flexible as possible but I also know there is always room for improvement.

I did not see a question here in your thread, but I’ll go ahead and share some customizing resources that are available for changing the calendar’s styles:

• Overriding the stylesheets: Any of the calendar’s stylesheets can be overridden in your theme’s directory, which prevents your changes from being lost on future plugin updates. So, for example, you can create a new folder in your theme’s directory called tribe-events and create a stylesheet in there called tribe-events.css and any classes added there will take priority over those in the plugin’s included stylesheet.
• Using the WordPress Customizer: This is a feature in Events Calendar PRO, but it will allow you to make color and other style adjustments to the calendar in the Appearance > Customize screen in WordPress.
• Directly editing the theme stylesheet: You can add your styles here instead and that will allow you to override any calendar styles.
• Using a third-party plugin: For example, the Simple Custom CSS plugin has come in handy for me on a number of occasions. I like it because it adds styles directly to the document head, which takes priority over any other style from a stylesheet.

I hope this helps a bit and shows that we’re quite beyond the “fashioned useablitiy” you mentioned. If you have other examples of how other plugins are doing it both differently and better, then please share — we’re always interested in how we can improve and if there are good examples out there, then perhaps we can learn from it.

Cheers,
Geoff

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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