Latest Update to Events Calendar Pro

[Bonnie]

I just updated to 2.09 Events Calendar. Saw a message that I needed to update Pro to 2.09 too for everything to work. After updating to 2.09 Events Calendar I noticed that some of my customizations are gone (specifically to the colors of the Events List and Calendar buttons). Before I do this next update, what files should I copy locally so that I don’t loose customization changes? I have a customized list.php in my /events folder within my theme.

Thanks. Will wait to hear from you before updating anymore.

[Jonah]

Hi Bonnie,

Whenever updating WordPress or plugins you should always backup all files so you can revert back just in case. I would also suggest having everything under version control and carefully comparing changes in an update with the changes you made. It is also a good idea to have a local or remote development environment where you can run updates and deploy new changes to test things out without affecting your live website. These are all standard best practices for any website when doing updates or deployments.

As far as specific customizations, I would have no way of telling you which files to backup because only you would know which specific files you edited. I can tell you that any plugin overrides in the ‘events’ folder in your theme will never be touched. If you had made any changes to the core plugin files, the CSS or the views templates, they would be overwritten when you update. So it could be that you had customizations in these files that were then overwritten.

Another possibility is that your CSS customizations are still in place but need to be modified to be made more specific and applied to the elements they need to be applied to. What I am talking about is CSS specificity and you can read more about it here: http://css-tricks.com/specifics-on-css-specificity/

Sorry that you lost your customizations. Hopefully this helps and please post more information about specific changes you made (including what file(s) were changes, code samples, etc.) that you are no longer seeing if you’d like me to take a closer look.

Regards,
Jonah

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