Exactly what I need … now how to do it?

[Stephen]

So the screenshot called “Showcase Bakes Place” is the exact layout of photo and week display of calendar information that I need for a project.

I will admit that I have little to no experience with this and would be willing to pay more to understand. Watched all of the videos I could this afternoon to try and do it but all I am succeeding in doing is breaking my site.

Can a staff member help? How does this work? Can I pay for additional coding support so that I can have this executed for me?

Thanks,

The guy who is drowning in code, but is still struggling to understand it. 🙂

[George]

Hey Stephen,

There’s unfortunately no screenshot here called “Showcase Bakes Place” – if you meant to share a screenshot via upload, we don’t have that on our forums at this time, and so sharing images requires uploading the image to a site like Imgur.com and then sharing those image links here…

To further the disappointing news, we also offer no support for code customization here. It is indeed the type of work that you’d have to hire someone to help you with – we don’t personally solicit such services, but we maintain a list of well-reviewed developers looking for work here → http://m.tri.be/18k1

I hope that helps!

Sorry for the disappointing news Stephen – please let me know if this helps you move forward with your project and/or if you have any other questions, comments, or concerns.

Cheers,
George

[Stephen]

Thanks for the quick reply George!

It is on this page: https://theeventscalendar.com/showcase/

Bakes Place…

Definitely need a developer on this as I am struggling pretty hard. That site looks amazing and I am attempting to learn how to do it, but at this point, little to no success in that direction.

Thank you for your direction… I understand that your team cannot offer it, but does that look crazy custom to you or am I just missing something within the PRO versions customization menu structure?

[George]

No worries @Stephen! And I’m really sorry that I misunderstood your mention of our showcase item – I didn’t realize you referring to http://bakesplacebellevue.com/!

As for the scope of the customization, it all comes down to how skilled you are with code. Let’s look at just the events calendar specifically here for example → http://bakesplacebellevue.com/events/

On that page, their customizations are relatively minimal and would be fairly simple to implement. The customizations are almost all just CSS style tweaks; so for a quick example, to make their event links that nice golden-orange-ish color, that can be achieved by simply adding CSS like this to the bottom of the theme’s style.css file:


#tribe-events-content a {
color: #c90 !important;
}


The other style changes like font color, background colors, border colors, and so on all follow that similar pattern.

If you want to write custom CSS on your site, definitely check out a [free!] tool like Firebug if you use FireFox, or the Developer Tools for either Safari or Chrome. They have “Inspector” tools that let you zoom right over the element you want to customize, and so you can then see the selectors you’d need to customize. In my code example above, “#tribe-events-content a” is a selector. So you could use these tools to see that “oh, the selector for this is #tribe-events-content a”, then you just add your styles for that selector in your style.css file like in the example above where “color” is added to the selector…

Apologies for the long winded overview, just wanted to try and at least help a little bit with helping you determine if you can embark on these customizations yourself or if another developer is truly needed…

Now despite all of this, let’s go to the site’s home page instead of just the calendar page: http://bakesplacebellevue.com/

If you’re trying to build something more like this, that will unfortunately require a bit of both PHP and CSS stuff, and is therefore another few layers of complexity thicker than some simple CSS changes like mentioned above..

I hope this all helps paint a clearer picture of what’s required for the customizations you have in mind. I wish you the best of luck with them regardless!

Sincerely,
George

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