Formatting issues on community submission & my backend

[James Duncan]

I just updated to the most recent version and now my page for community-added events is unusable.
http://realcrozetva.com/calendar/community/add

This is the community backend with formatting challenges.

This is the community submission page.

[George]

Hey James,

Your back-end issues are not quite an “issue”, at least not in the sense that something is outright broken – things are “squished” a bit there because you have the SEO plugin active on your site, which adds several column headers to the admin table there. That makes the table very wide, which just squishes all the data on the screen because it’s all trying to fit there.

You could write some admin-specific CSS on your site to hide specific columns on that backend page, if you’d like to, but otherwise there aren’t many solutions for fixing that.

As for the front-end page problems, first head to Events > Settings > Display in your admin. For the “page template” setting, try changing this to different values and checking on the front-end to see how different templates work.

If none of them work well, then revert to the current one and try adding custom CSS like the following to the bottom of your theme’s style.css file:

#tribe-events-pg-template {
    margin: 0 auto 0 21%;
    max-width: 855px;
}

You can write more specific CSS with media queries to handle the appearance for smaller screen sizes and such, or to change the padding and spacing around the page – for stuff like this, I highly recommend getting a free tool like Firebug if you use FireFox, or the Developer Tools for either Safari or Chrome. They’ve got inspector tools that make it very easy to find out what CSS you need to add to your site to achieve a desired result.

I hope all this information helps – cheers!

George

[James Duncan]

George –

1) thank you re: the SEO plugin. I had no idea (and know that had I disabled all plugins … I’m sorry, but thank you.)

2) thanks for the CSS edit. That seems to have fixed it. As a CSS neophyte, will that negatively affect any other pages?

Thanks,

Jim

[George]

Hey Jim!

As a CSS neophyte, will that negatively affect any other pages?

No, only pages where the #tribe-events-pg-template ID is present, which is only on pages generated by The Events Calendar.

As for your other comments, thanks for the update and I’m glad the SEO thing is cleared up a bit.

Since both items have been addressed here, I’ll close up this particular thread to keep things organized – but if you have any other questions/issues/concerns, open a new thread here on the forums any time! 🙂

Cheers,
George

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