Events calendar page is breaking theme

[jasondrhodes]

I’ve just installed Events Calendar Pro on my website, which is currently hidden behind Coming Soon Pro but can be browsed via cookie here: http://www.productivenetworking.com.au/cubeweb.

Once you browse there, then go to this page: http://www.productivenetworking.com.au/events/. The main calendar is doing something to my theme where the page title is not showing. You can see the correct page title if you go to my Event Submission page here: http://www.productivenetworking.com.au/events/community/add, you can see the page title ‘Submit an Event’ and breadcrumbs along the top right. These are not showing on the main month page. I’ve tried to trouble shoot this by reading over this page and seeing what could be causing it: https://tri.be/support/documentation/events-calendar-themers-guide/

Really hoping someone here can see what is causing this on just the one page.

Also, I’ve got 2 events set up that are both recurring every month for 24 months. When I add them to my Google Calendar or Outlook via iCal, they are only added in there as a single event, not a recurring event, which based on the features I read, should be possible, and I’ve got all the settings set correctly.

Look forward to any good feedback. Thanks.

[Brook]

Howdy jasondrhodes,

Is this gray box what you are referring to as the page title?  If so it looks to me like your calendar may not be using the correct page template. When you go to Wp Admin > Events > Settings, click on the tab ‘Display’, you should see an ‘Events template’ dropdown. Are there multiple items in that dropdown? Try selecting some of the others and see if one of them makes the events pages look proper. If there are not multiple items, or none of them behave as you want, then your theme is not setup to use WP Page Templates. It needs to support Page templates in order to work right, as these are a common WP provided feature and our plugin uses them to adjust the theme.

Please let me know if I understood your correctly. and if my advice helps. If not, could you provide a screenshot of which title specifically you are referring to. There are many different titles, ranging from the obvious <title> element to a handful of <h1>s, <h2>s, etc. Thank you!

– Brook

[jasondrhodes]

Hi, thanks for your reply Brook. I tried all of the different templates in that page, which no change. This is the only page on my website that this is happening on. And yes, it is the page title in the image you attached http://snag.gy/fZW4u.jpg

I cannot figure out why the Calendar view would be stopping that page header from appearing, but yet it works fine on the community events submission page.

It’s not a massive problem, because everything still works fine, but from a consistency view point, I’d like my page titles to be visible on every page of my website.

The theme I’m using is this one, which as you can see is a very popular theme and very highly rated one on the Themeforest marketplace.

http://themeforest.net/item/the7-responsive-multipurpose-wordpress-theme/5556590

Hoping for any further guidance.

[Brook]

Howdy again,

I can certainly understand why you would want the page titles to appear on every page. I would too.

The trouble is your theme uses a visual theme builder. When a theme advertises this, what they are essentially advertising is “we do not use WordPress built-in functionality for templates, we built our own system alongside it.” You can imagine how easy it is for a non WordPress template system to conflict with WordPress plugins. The above is proof of that. That is why many of the themes that do have some form of a visual builder offer you a method for building a standard Page Template as well. The genesis theme for instance, has an API for building WordPress page templates instead of using their custom visual builder.

That it works on the community page is a stroke of luck. Since The7’s visual builder is completely custom I can not really say why it works in some places.

I would contact the theme author and ask if they have a method for creating standard WordPress Page Templates, like the Genesis theme does above. If he does, you should be able to follow those steps which will add an item to the WP Admin > Events > Settings > Display > Events Template dropdown. If he does not, I would definitely request the feature. As you say the theme is gaining popularity and is probably going to need that sooner or later. Of course if you need the feature in the meantime you could hire someone to create a child theme that is more broadly compatible.

Does that make sense? Do you have any more questions about it? I’d be glad to help further if I can.

– Brook

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