Events Calendar Pro Widget Settings

[Heather]

I couldn’t find a definitive answer for this, and since it’s the only reason I would be purchasing the Pro version, I want to make sure I’ll be able to before spending the money.

For the Pro version widgets, will I be able to select a specific category? So if I have five categories total, I’ll be able to only show events in the “Example A” category? Can you select more than one category per widget?

Also, is there a way to customize the output per widget? For example, Widget A would only show the title and time, but Widget B would show the title, time and description?

So far I’m loving this plugin, just want to be sure of what the widget options are. Thank you!

[Brian]

Hi,

Thanks for the interest in our plugins. I can answer your questions.

For the Pro version widgets, will I be able to select a specific category?

Yes, you can select one or more categories and require an event to have all or any of the categories to show.

The Event List Widget has the most ways to change the output per widget:

https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/configuring-the-list-widget/

There is also the Mini Calendar and This Week Widget too:

Events Calendar Widget Settings

Configuring the Events By Week Widget

And we have these resources for the shortcode versions of the widgets:

https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/pro-widget-shortcodes/

And even more resources in this search for widgets in our KB

Let me know if you have any follow up questions.

Thanks

[Heather]

Thanks, Brian. I purchased the plugin and the widget filtering works perfectly.

I just have one more question. The site I’m working on has two events widgets. Widget A needs to display the next X amount of events coming up with the title, date and time. Widget B only needs to show events occurring on Sunday of each week with the title and time.

Initially I’ve set it up so Widget A is a list of the next 5 events and it looks great (each is on a different day of the week at different times). I set up Widget B as This Weeks Events, but I don’t need it to say the day of the week since every event listed here is on Sun (it’s redundant and doesn’t really allow enough room, even with the name abbreviated).

I can see there’s nowhere to customize the output of the widget or change the date format by widget type, so I can’t remove the day of the week that way. I was hoping it was wrapped in a class so I could just hide it with CSS, but the entire day/starting time is wrapped in a span tag.

Any thoughts?

[Brian]

Hi,

Thanks for purchasing Pro. I can help out here.

So we are limited in helping on customizations, but try to help get you started on them or provide some css or small coding here or there.

Before I get to that a good resource to look at for all the templates is the Themer’s guide, which shows you how to move and edit templates in your theme:

https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/themers-guide/

Anyway, do you have a link you can provide in a private reply and I will take a look and see if I can come up with something.

Also, since this is the pre-sales forum it is a good idea for any other issues to create a new thread in the customer forums.

Cheers

[Heather]

I looked through the Themer’s guide and wasn’t able to find anything quite like what I’m trying to do with the dates/times. I have heavily modified the This Week widget, so it’s not the end of the world if I can’t get it to work, it would just look better.

How do I send a private reply? I looked around the site and couldn’t find anywhere to do this.

Thanks again for your help! Any other issues I’ll create a new thread.

[Brian]

Oh yeah the pre-sales does not have that ability, that is for the premium forums.

If you put a link in this thread I will come back and remove it after I see it.

[Heather]

Got it. Here’s the link:

*removed by the admin

The two widgets are the Sunday Worship (next to slideshow) and Upcoming Events (sidebar)

[Brian]

Ok you can change the output of the This Week Widget duration in this template:

plugins/events-calendar-pro/src/views/pro/widgets/this-week/single-event.php

To here:

yourtheme/tribe-events/pro/widgets/this-week/single-event.php

Changing this:

<?php echo tribe_events_event_schedule_details( $event->ID ) ?>

to this:

<?php echo tribe_get_start_date( $event->ID, false, 'm/d' ); ?>

You can change the date format output by modifying this: m/d

With the PHP standards:

http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

Cheers

[Heather]

That was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you so much!

[Brian]

Great, glad it helps, I am going to go ahead and close this ticket, but if you need help on this or something else please post a new ticket.

Thanks!

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