Help an idiot: Changing basic settings in events calendar pro.

[Alexander Hunte]

Dear Team of Events Calendar Pro,
I’ve no idea of programming and I searched on Google for ages to Change those Setting.
My dreams:
1.
I want to modify the search engine: I want to rename “In der Nähe von” to “Stadt/PLZ” – exactly where can I Change that?

2.
I want to implement a button on the right side in my list. The button should carry a Hyperlink to a ticketpage such as eventim. Everytime I implement a button it Looks like it is gonna filter it out.

3.
I want to adjust the Google map. But I just want to adjust the height, where do I fine Settings for that?

Looking Forward to your help,
Alex

[Geoff B.]

Good evening Alexander and welcome to the Events Calendar Support forum!

Thank you for reaching out to us.

There is absolutely no shame in asking for help. After all, this is what we are here for 🙂
I would love to help you with this topic.

1. I want to modify the search engine: I want to rename “In der Nähe von” to “Stadt/PLZ” – exactly where can I Change that?

There are a couple of ways to do this:

1. Using a code snippet
2. Customizing our language files for your language

Code snippet

You might want to try the instructions found here: https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/change-the-wording-of-any-bit-of-text-or-string/

If that does not work. You could apply the following snippet in the functions.php file of your theme instead (without the PHP tag at the top): https://gist.github.com/andrasguseo/29903a974cb84060957881c17613c278

Translations/language files

I highly recommend reading the 3 following articles on translation:

• https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/translating-the-events-calendar/
• https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/how-to-override-plugin-language-files/
• https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/incomplete-translations/

That should make you a true translation expert.
Some people find it easier to use a plugin such as Loco Translate (which basically does all that in a nice plugin interface.

2. I want to implement a button on the right side in my list. The button should carry a Hyperlink to a ticketpage such as eventim. Everytime I implement a button it Looks like it is gonna filter it out.

This will require a bit of customization.

The good news is that even if you are not a programmer, with a bit of reading you should be able to get things to your liking.

In fact, we have built our plugin in a way to make it easy to customize.

The first thing you should do is go through the following: https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/url-as-word-button/

As you can see that would work perfectly except this is for the single event view.
What you need to do is create a custom list view.

You might want to read our Themer’s guide to get a sense of how that works.

The plan is to:

1. Hunt down the code for the Website URL in the single event view
2. “Steal it”
3. Place it in the list view template file
4. Upload the customized view in your theme files (under the  /tribe-events/ folder)

If coding is not really your cup of tea, you could always hire one of our recommended customizers to do the customization for you.

3. I want to adjust the Google map. But I just want to adjust the height, where do I fine Settings for that?

This can be achieved with CSS.
There are 2 CSS elements controlling this:

1. #tribe-geo-map-wrapper
2. #tribe-geo-map (default to 400px)

For our purpose, the second one should suffice.

Try adding the following CSS rule to your style.css file or in your Custom CSS metabox:

#tribe-geo-map {
height: 800px !important;
}

Let me know how that goes.

Best regards,
Geoff B.

[Alexander Hunte]

Hello Geoff,
we are running our page on wordpress.de \ business – where do I find those php tags etc. I cannot find anything 🙁

[Geoff B.]

Good evening Alexander,

Thank you for writing back.

The PHP tag I was referring to can be seen here (and in most PHP-based snippets): https://gist.github.com/andrasguseo/29903a974cb84060957881c17613c278

Let me know how that goes.

Best regards,
Geoff B.

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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