Different default template for month vs. other views

[Kishore Hari]

I’d like to use the full width (default events template) for my month view and the default page template for all other views, including single-event. What’s the best way to do this? I want to minimize the overrides since this is a simple change.

Month view as I want displayed here: http://www.bayareascience.org/schedule/2014-10/

[Barry]

Hi Kishore,

Great question.

There are a few ways to go about something like this – one fairly straight forward way is to override and customize the default-template.php. You can find complete instructions in the Themer’s Guide, but basically you would copy:

the-events-calendar/views/default-template.php

Then place the copy in your theme at a path something like this:

your-theme/tribe-events/default-template.php

Then, just above get_header(), you could add some code like this:

// If this is not month view, use another template
if ( ! tribe_is_month() ) {
    get_template_part( 'page' );
    return;
}

Would that work here?

[Kishore Hari]

What would I choose as the events template in settings then?

[Kishore Hari]

The month view renders properly (http://www.bayareascience.org/schedule/2014-10/), but when I select any other view than month, my template renders a mess: http://www.bayareascience.org/schedule/map/
http://www.bayareascience.org/schedule/upcoming/

[Barry]

Hi!

What would I choose as the events template in settings then?

Sorry for not being clearer: if you follow the approach I outlined then you would select the Default Events Template.

The month view renders properly (http://www.bayareascience.org/schedule/2014-10/), but when I select any other view than month, my template renders a mess: http://www.bayareascience.org/schedule/map/

Have you reverted your changes here/are you just using the same template for all? Both look pretty good to me – can you highlight what the problem is exactly?

Thanks!

[Kishore Hari]

I had reverted it – still having the problem.

When I switch the to default events template and use the code provided, the month view works properly: http://imgur.com/hCWda2G
But any view except month looks like this: http://imgur.com/PN6o7bS

[Barry]

OK – what if we reverse things and you use the Default Page Template as the default and add the following just above the get_header() call within there:

if ( tribe_is_month() ) {
	get_template_part( 'tribe-events/default-template' );
	return;
}

You would also need to copy the default-template.php file and place it within a tribe-events directory inside your theme, ie:

your-theme/tribe-events/default-template.php

Certainly with a couple of default WordPress themes this approach seems to work nicely. Does that help?

[Barry]

Hi! It’s been a while so I’m going to go ahead and close this thread. If we can help with anything else, though, please don’t hesitate to create new threads as needed. Thanks!

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