Pre-update Question

[Jordan Polon]

I apologize in advance for this moronic question. I’ve made some chances to various elements of the Events Calendar Pro for mobile and desktop display, but it was awhile ago. I didn’t make a separate folder, so I know if I update I will lose all of my customizations. I can no longer tell what files were updated because my computer was stolen. Is there a way for you to look at Hartford.com and see what files I need to download before an update, or if I can even update?

Thank you.

[Rob]

Hi Tara! Thanks for the note here, and no problem at all about the question. Let me in fact apologize on my end for taking so long to get you a reply here. Normally we strive for a 24-hour response window and we failed you on that end.

It is sadly impossible for us to tell exactly where the customizations lie, if you don’t have access to the original files. But what about FTPing into the site and viewing the source files themselves that way? You could even re-download them to access them and open/review as you see fit. If you have a staging environment or test site to work off, you can take as long as you need testing/checking your customizations before deploying the 3.0 release to the production environment.

MIght that help? It’s worth noting that you definitely can update, in terms of technical limitations, so long as you’re running at least WordPress 3.5 (which it appears you are). But if you do apply the update directly to the production site it will almost certainly mess with the appearance.

Hope that helps. Let me know if not, or if I can elaborate at all, and I’ll get you what you need. Thanks again for your patience so far.

[Jordan Polon]

Thanks for the response. I was able to download the files, but I can’t seem to tell which ones I modified (still) and I’m so sorry to ask, but can you tell me? The files are here, and I can’t see anything, even modification dates. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2D-rWe0R-iBY2ZnWUlfRzRxUGs/edit?usp=sharing

I really want to update to 3.0 — the features look great! This is, and always has been, the best plugin on WP.

[Jordan Polon]

I’m not just saying that to get help :). I’ve recommended this to lots of people!

[Rob]

Hey Tara! Thanks for the follow-up here, and for uploading the files to Google Docs there. I just had Jessica from our development team take a look at those and create a DIFF file, so you can see the differences added to the plugin code.

It looks like those files are just for the PRO add-on, though, and as a result it doesn’t look like much has changed: seems like just events-calendar-pro/views/single-venue.php was modified.

Can you possibly upload the core The Events Calendar in the same fashion, so we can review that and check the bulk of the substantive tweaks for you?

[Jordan Polon]

I’m so sorry for the delayed response (super aggressive spam filter, I guess) and THANK YOU. Here they are; can’t wait to update.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2D-rWe0R-iBRWFZOHRhWlN0MG8/edit?usp=sharing

[Rob]

Thank you, Tara! No worries at all about the delay. Just a heads up that I’ve got this back on the radar and will have Jessica take a look shortly, to finish what we started in my August 5 note. Stay tuned and thanks for your patience so far!

[Rob]

Hey again Tara. Just wanted to follow-up with you here, now that I’ve had a chance to have Jessica from our team take another look at this matter.

Here are the files she found that were changed in your core plugin:

resources/events.css
views/list.php
views/single.php

I should point out that the templates have changed significantly between version 2 & 3, so if you move those files to to your theme and then upgrade the plugin, your customized template might not work perfectly with 3.0. As far as both I and the developer can tell, though, you didn’t do anything crazy custom – and instead only changed a few lines of code – so if things don’t work exactly, it should be pretty easy for you to redo the customizations in the 3.0 templates.

Hope that helps! Thanks again for your support, and let us know if you need anything else in the future.

[Jordan Polon]

Thanks so much, Rob & Jessica! I’ve updated successfully and made some minor modifications. I still want to modify the ordering of the event-meta box on single event displays, but I can not figure out 1) where to do that and 2) where is the css file that I’m now using?

THANK YOU!

[Rob]

Hey Tara. Thanks for the follow-up here, and glad that got you sorted. Modifying the event-meta box on single displays should be pretty straightforward, and the best way to do it would probably be to create your own custom template for the single event view (single-event.php). If you need guidance on how to do a template override we’ve got the process detailed right here: https://theeventscalendar.com/what-are-template-overrides-and-how-do-i-do-them/.

In terms of the CSS: if I understand what you’re asking correctly, the plugin’s CSS files can be found in The Events Calendar’s “resources” folder. Let me know if I’m misunderstood there though.

[Jordan Polon]

I’m not sure if you misunderstood, or if I just can’t do what I did in the older version.

The old version looked like this on mobile:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2D-rWe0R-iBVWxqYkJ0REJpMWc/edit?usp=sharing

Now it looks like this:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2D-rWe0R-iBZHlLTlB2MUQ5dHM/edit?usp=sharing

I was able to do that using various tweaks to the event meta and adding this code to the “events.css”: http://pastebin.com/fw2abNc3

Adding this to the css does nothing now. Am I perhaps using the wrong css file? Or do I have to go back to the old version of the calendar? I really like some of the upgrades, but not more than I like the cleaner mobile view.

Thanks, as always for all of the assistance.

[Rob]

Ah Tara, I think I understand what’s going on here…my apologies for taking a few days to get you a reply. The issue here is that it looks like you’re still using the “old” naming convention for the CSS file….starting with 3.0 the file is actually called “tribe-events.css.”

We updated the themer’s guide with a Customizing Styles section, specific to 3.0, which should get you exactly what you need to proceed here. See this section: https://theeventscalendar.com/support/documentation/events-calendar-themers-guide/#customizingstyles , and let me know if that gets you sorted!

[Jordan Polon]

Thanks, Rob. I’ve been able to make some small fixes, but I’m not able to get the meta back to the way I had it. I’m going to give it a week of trying before going back to 2x. Thanks for the help; I do appreciate it.

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