Missing Revolution Slider

[athlete]

Dear Events Calendar Pro,

Great plug-in! Only issue we are having with it: After we installed it, the Events page isn’t showing Revolution Slider above the site navigation (this is how it is site-wide), and there doesn’t appear to be an obvious way to assign a slider to the page the way we can everywhere else on the site. We’re fairly certain this is a simple modification to make — we just don’t know how to do it, and we really need to make it ASAP to relaunch this web site. Please help!

Thanks!

Athlete

[George]

Hi @athlete,

Thanks for reaching out to us here. I’m not quite sure why this wouldn’t be working, and while we don’t offer support for other themes or plugins, one thing that might help here is to simply check the Revolution Slider documentation for a theme function you can add to custom theme templates that calls a Revolution Slider if one exists – then, use our Themer’s Guide to learn how to add this function to various templates of The Events Calendar.

This themer’s guide is available here → https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/themers-guide/

I hope this information can help you get started on the process of adding the Revolution Slider to your Events Calendar views – let us know if it does help, or if you have any other questions or concerns.

Thank you!
George

[athlete]

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[George]

Thanks for the update the @athlete – unfortunately, the essence of the problem is how you said “The theme’s page templates”. Page templates themselves are theme-specific creations, not things from within plugins (not just our own – you can’t make page templates from plugins at this time).

Further, if the revolution slider only works with Page Templates in your theme, then nothing about Events could pick up that data anyway since there are of a post post type – they function like posts, in other words, not pages, which means they don’t have support for page templates.

I hope that information helps clarify things a bit – even if so, however, I’m not saying we have to end here.

I’m curious about alternatives – there must be some way to manually call a Revolution Slider, do you know of such a method? There should be a shortcode, for which you can use the WordPress function do_shortcode() to call it directly from an Events Calendar template, or it might have a template tag of its own, which you could just add to an Events Calendar template directly.

I’m sorry about some of the inherent limitations that seem to be in place here – hopefully with the Themer’s Guide I linked to earlier in this thread, and some Revolution-Slider specific code, you can put something useful together here.

Thanks,
George

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