Need 3 customizations to finish off our site

[Kenneth Bronstein]

We own the Pro version and are running in the VamTam Church and Events theme. Our site is at nycatheists.org.

We are very happy but could use some help making a few customizations. We aren’t programmers but if you can give us specific directions, e.g. edit this file change this to this, we can certainly do that.

1. On the single event page, please tell us how to remove the related events that appear on the right below the details. These seem to have appeared after we upgraded to Pro.

2. We made our own calendar page out of your Pro version shortcodes. But on the single events page, there is a “4 square” icon that appears above the details that goes to your default calendar page. Please tell us how to either remove that button or redirect it to our page rather than your default calendar page.

3. On the venue page, please tell us how to remove the Upcoming Events that appear below the map.

Additional Question. I’m worried we may not have file access in GoDaddy Managed WordPress. If we make changes to your files in the zip package, can we just reimport it to bring in those changes?

Thanks VERY much. We appreciate your great support.

[George]

Hey Tyson!

Thank you for the kind words. It’s with those kind words in mind that I’m sorry to bear the news that we unfortunately do not offer support for customizations here. These are things you’ll have to take the rein on implementing yourself.

The good news is that they’re mostly CSS-related things, which are simple to do. And hiding the “Related Events” should be even easier than that – you can simply go to Events > Settings > Display and scroll down a bit, where with PRO active you will see an option called “Hide related events”. Check that, save your changes, and it should work well.

Here’s a screenshot of that option, for reference → https://cloudup.com/ciUtBhBA-Zi

As for the other changes, you can simply head to your theme’s style.css file and scroll all the way to the bottom. This is where you can add custom CSS rules.

For example, if by “foursquare icon” you mean the one I highlight in this screenshot → https://cloudup.com/cHb7oC9LLhS, then you can add CSS like the following to hide it on Single Events views (while leaving it for other templates on your site):


body.single-tribe_events .page-header .all-items {
display: none !important;
}


When it comes to hiding the Upcoming Events on venue pages, add CSS like this:


body.single-tribe_venue #tribe-events-content {
display: none !important;
}


Finally:

I’m worried we may not have file access in GoDaddy Managed WordPress. If we make changes to your files in the zip package, can we just reimport it to bring in those changes?

This can work well, though you’ll need to be sure to take the extra step of outright deleting the existing version of the plugin in your admin’s “Plugins” page before you go to install the newly-customized version.

However, this may not be necessary for these specific customizations! The things I listed above can be added to your theme’s style.cs, no tweaks to the core plugin code itself needed. You can edit the theme style.css file from right inside your admin by going to Appearance > Editor.

Best of luck with your customizations! We cannot offer any more help than the sort of things I listed above, but hopefully it gets you off to a good start. To make more customizations, get a free tool like Firebug if you use FireFox, or the Developer Tools for either Safari or Chrome – these tools let you find exactly what CSS you’d need to write to accomplish something, which is immensely helpful and they save a ton of time.

Cheers!
George

[Kenneth Bronstein]

George, you’re great. Thanks so much for your kind and detailed reply. I did find the option to turn off the Related Events, appreciate you pointing that out. And I can certainly add the updates to style.css. In fact, I found (being new to GoDaddy) that I can access any of the files through sftp, so no need to reimport to make changes to other files if I need to. I can be pretty self-sufficient from here.

I now have one roadblock. When I edit style.css I cannot get any changes of any kind to appear on my pages. I’ve verified that the changes are getting made to the file. I’ve Googled this to death and did all the usual suggestions like clearing the local and server caches, waiting etc. But nothing works.

Certainly you cannot be expected to help with this, but if any of your other users have had this issue and you have a suggestion please let me know. Otherwise, this issue is resolved with gratitude.

Cheers, Tyson

[George]

Hey Tyson,

Again with the kind words from you – much appreciated! 🙂

As for your issue with the rules not updating, I’m curious, do you have any caching plugins on your site? If so, deactivate those and save the changes you’ve made to style.css again.

Next, head into your theme options panel if it has one – see if you can disable your theme’s caching, which seems to be a problem here. There is a /cache/all.css file that exists in your theme and that’s the one being loaded on your pages, so see if your theme has the option to turn off caching and try doing so if it does. Contact your theme developer for help disabling this if you can’t seem to find a simple option or filter for doing so.

Hopefully these steps will lead the loading of the proper updated file! Let us know if you manage to get that working.

Cheers,
George

[Kenneth Bronstein]

I have no caching plugins. GoDaddy does it’s own caching for Managed WordPress sites. They provide an option to clear it and I’ve tried that. I’ve also tried forcing refresh or going incognito in various browsers, even tried it from new browsers, so I don’t think it’s local caching. The Style.css file is updated. I’m reading a lot of articles that seem to indicate that I need to add a call to wp_enqueue_style. Is that true in my case? Is there any reason I should need to add that coding to my theme code?

[George]

Hey Tyson,

Adding an additional wp_enqueue_style() call is not related here. If the changes to style.css are not taking place, then your best alternative is to find the file /cache/all.css in your theme and add the code at the bottom of this file as well.

Apologies for these caching issues, I do not know their source or why they won’t even let you update a single file! Very weird.

Hopefully you have some better luck with /cache/all.css. If not, then I’d recommend contacting GoDaddy support to ask why your cache doesn’t seem to be clearing.

Thanks!
George

[Kenneth Bronstein]

You rock! I edited the all.css directly, purged the GoDaddy cache, forced my local browser to refresh and viola, it works!!

Again, can’t tell you how much I appreciate your kind help and support.

[George]

Awesome, glad to hear it Tyson. Your kind words are supremely appreciated 🙂

I wish you the best of luck with your site!

Cheers,
George

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