Instead of FIND OUT MORE display more meta

[Mad Dog]

My client doesn’t want a simple list view with the “Find Out More” link, they want to display all (or most of) the information in List View and not link to a detail page. They’re adament.

I’ve been looking at the Themer’s Guide and the files and it’s a pretty confusing template set-up. I’m wondering what would be the best (and simplest?) way to do this. I’m thinking maybe pulling all the display section out of /list/single-event.php/ and replacing it with <?php the_content(); ?> is the way to go. I guess if I did that I could control what is displayed and in what order from the /modules/meta.php/ and the sub-meta files. Does that make sense or am I going about it all wrong?

And if I did that, what CSS stylesheet would I modify?

I have to say…this is possibly the messiest template I’ve ever had to modify…

Is there an easier (or better) way I’m overlooking?

Thanks,
Mad Dog

[George]

Hey Barry,

I’m sorry you find our templating system confusing. For this customization, it should actually be fairly simple to do – just make a file in your theme at /tribe-events/list/single-event.php which is an exact duplicate of the file in the plugin code itself at /src/views/list/single-event.php.

Then, where you want the extra information to display, add it. This can be the_content() instead of the_excerpt() – you can add custom get_post_meta() calls and anything else like that. Basically, all the fun WordPress templating stuff that you were presumably hired for your knowledge and experience with 🙂 Play around with the run-of-the-mill WordPress templating functions, and if you have specific Calendar data you want to get, just look through the functions listed in the various template tag files in the plugin’s /src/functions/template-tags directory.

The only “weird” or tricky thing to display is data from the “Additional Fields” content if you have Events Calendar Pro – if you want to display those fields, just add this where you want them to display:


tribe_get_template_part( 'pro/modules/meta/additional-fields', null, array(
'fields' => tribe_get_custom_fields(),
) );


I hope this all helps! Best of luck with your templating 🙂

[Mad Dog]

Thanks for the leads…..it starts okay, then with the nested templates gets bolluxed up.

For instance, I have no problem, say, going into single-event.php and removing the from the Title. Easy enough.

Then I want to get rid of the “+ Google Map” link and text. True, I could use CSS and hide it, but I’d rather just get rid of it….at least as an example of what works. So I go to venue.php and comment out, then delete, the offending code, save it in [your-theme]/tribe-events/modules/meta/venue.php as the file says I should, but no matter what I do to that file nothing changes when I look at list view.

Do I have the wrong file somehow? Or is it in the wrong place?

THANKS

[Mad Dog]

BTW…..that previous post should have said “Removing the <a> tag”, but since I didn’t make it cide it which turned the whole freakin’ reply into link styling! Sorry about that. And I don’t see that I can edit it.

[Mad Dog]

sorry to keep this up but I’m doing great with this adding the template tags.

I decided not to worry about eliminating the +Google Map link, at least for now, and just used display:none. Inelegant, but that’s fine.

One hopefully last piece to this that’s related to the Google Map link:

– I want to remove the link from the Venue. I see in the forums I can change tribe_get_venue() but I still have that problem. I have the file at /tribe-events/modules/meta/venues.php but changes there don’t get reflected in the single page. That is the right directory for it, isn’t it?

Thanks!

[Mad Dog]

Since I never heard back and for some reason changing the file wasn’t doing anything, instead of deleting the link tag I did it using CSS.

`body.events-list .tribe-events-venue-details span a {
pointer-events: none !important;
cursor: default !important;
}’

I’m still curious why changing that file wasn’t affecting anything, but it’s not critical at this point.

THANKS

[George]

Hey Barry,

Apologies for the delayed response, I’m just returning from the weekend and catching up on threads.

This thread is marked “resolved” and you seem to have worked out a useful solution on your site, so I will mark this as “Closed” for now.

Best of luck with your site!
George

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