event logos not showing up on the event listing page, and not linking to URL

[bookthatevent2]

Here is my website which lists all of my upcoming events
http://bookthatevent.com/event-listing/
It LOOKS alright, but it’s not what it used to be before one of your updates.
1. This page should have each event’s logo on the left side of the page.
2. That logo should link directly to that event’s page (a third party)
3. That logo USED to be there, but now it’s not. They completely disappeared. (the way I did is it is shown in http://bookthatevent.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/OCMarathon_LogoLink.png . It was super easy and functional.
4. The only way I can get a logo to show up is to set a featured image, (http://bookthatevent.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/TacoTuesday_FeaturedImage_backEnd.png ), which DOES help by putting the logo back in (http://bookthatevent.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/TacoTuesday_ShownOnWebsite.png) but when you click on that logo, it ends up taking people to an internal page (http://bookthatevent.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/TacoTuesday_Internal.png) I want people to go to http://bookthatevent.com/event-listing/, click on the logo of the event they want and go STRAIGHT to the 3rd party page. .

Please help!

[Barry]

Hi bookthatevent2!

So what I think is happening here is that the excerpt (a short version of your main description) is being automatically generated based on the description itself – which is normal when a separate excerpt hasn’t explicitly been created.

This is probably resulting in the image being stripped out. What you could do here is change it so the full description shows instead. To do this, please familiarize yourself with our Themer’s Guide in the first instance:

https://theeventscalendar.com/support/documentation/events-calendar-themers-guide/

Then, copy the following file:

wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/views/list/single-event.php

Place your copy in:

wp-content/themes/YOUR_THEME/tribe-events/list/single-event.php

(You may need to create the tribe-events and list subdirectories.) Open up this new copy and near the bottom – around line 75 you will see a bit of code like this:

<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

Try changing this to:

<?php the_content(); ?>

Does that help?

[bookthatevent2]

Hi, unfortunately this didn’t help. Below is what is currently in the list view (in the theme folder, not the plugin folder)
It doesn’t make sense why I would update “the-events-calendar” instead of the “events-calendar-pro”
And it hasn’t changed anything 🙁
I REALLY liked how it worked before you updated! I shouldn’t have ever updated 🙁

It was a logo, which linked directly to my 3rd party webpage, and a short description.

[Barry]

Hi – thanks for the reply!

Below is what is currently in the list view (in the theme folder, not the plugin folder)

I’m not sure what you posted there, whether it was some code or an image, but it hasn’t come through. Can I ask you to use an external service like Pastebin, Gist, Dropbox or Droplr to share any non-text items as the forum software we’re using is, unfortunately, subject to a number of limitations.

It doesn’t make sense why I would update “the-events-calendar” instead of the “events-calendar-pro”

Events Calendar PRO builds on The Events Calendar and many of The Events Calendar’s own templates, scripts and stylesheets are still used even after you activate Events Calendar PRO.

In this case, the template we want to override and customize belongs to The Events Calendar. Does that clarify things?

And it hasn’t changed anything 🙁

I suspect from what you’ve written and a quick set of tests against various URLs based on your domain that you didn’t set up the list/single-event.php template correctly. Can you confirm that you have a file at:

wp-content/themes/colorway/tribe-events/list/single-event.php

If so can you share the contents of that file via a service like Pastebin or Gist?

I REALLY liked how it worked before you updated! I shouldn’t have ever updated 🙁

We’re very sad to hear that but if you really want to you can indeed roll things back – please see this FAQ entry – but do be aware that moving back to 2.0.11 or an earlier version will severely limit the amount of support we can provide you with.

Thanks!

[bookthatevent2]

Thanks, I had made a wp-content/themes/YOUR_THEME/tribe-events/VIEWS_list/single-event.php (added the level views) which apparently was wrong. So now it looks like it’s working, although it looks slightly different than what it did before, it now at least shows the logo and the logo clicks to the third party page http://bookthatevent.com/event-listing/

[Kelly]

Hi, bookthatevent2. We’re very glad to hear that it’s working now.

Is there anything we can do to help?

[Support Droid]

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