Question on the Community Events

[Scott Barnett]

Hi – I was speaking with Zach and he suggested I post here. We are evaluating Community Events with one of our Publisher partners (thisisreno.com) who is currently using a different WP Calendar plugin and wants to switch over to TEC.

I have a few questions/issues I’m hoping you can help with so we can convince the publisher to make the switch:

(1) The Add an Event page isn’t Submitting anything. It’s at http://thisisreno.com/event-beta/community/add. I fill in some stuff, but it never submits. There’s also some weird formatting going on that page.

(2) There’s no ability to customize this page? The publisher wanted to modify some of the things that are requested, but it seems like that can only be done by modifying the php directly? Essentially, they want the signup page to look like their current signup page (http://thisisreno.com/submit-your-event), and yours has a ton more options, but a bit of overkill for what they need.

(3) Can I change the URL? I see that the default action is to put the add URL underneath the /events page. They currently use a different URL with their current Calendar plugin and wanted to maintain it (apparently a lot of folks bookmarked it) – we can always do a redirect so it’s not a huge deal, but just curious if we can just pick a fixed URL for the signup page.

Thanks in advance!

Regards,
Scott

[Geoff]

Hey Scott,

Thanks so much for reaching out! These are great questions and I’m happy to help answer them. 🙂

(1) The Add an Event page isn’t Submitting anything. It’s athttp://thisisreno.com/event-beta/community/add. I fill in some stuff, but it never submits. There’s also some weird formatting going on that page.

Oh yeah, I see what you mean. The first thing I notice is that there are several Javascript errors popping up in the console. These often indicate a conflict with our plugins and either the theme being used or another installed plugin. In this case, I see a few of the notices flagging Broadstreet ads.

Regardless, I would suggest following the steps outlined in this post. It will help test for the existence of conflicts and, if any exist, pinpoint exactly where it is.

Depending on the outcome of this test, we may want to open a separate thread to troubleshoot it specifically, independent of the other questions in this post.

(2) There’s no ability to customize this page?

There actually is a way!

The Community Events templates are located at /wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar-community-events/src/views/. Any of those templates can be overridden in your theme files (more on this in our Themer’s Guide) to build custom layouts for any of the Community Events views.

(3) Can I change the URL?

Absolutely! Community Events includes a shortcode that will embed the submission form on any page you would like and set the URL for that page accordingly.

Create a page and use the following:

• [tribe_community_events_title] as title
• [tribe_community_events] in content

Does this help answer your questions? Please let me know. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

[Scott Barnett]

Geoff,

Ok on #1 and #2. Will work on both.

For #3, just so I’m clear, it’s simply a redirect, correct? I created a permalink for that page called http://thisisreno.com/test-event-submission-page. But when I go to that page, it simply redirects back to the original page (http://thisisreno.com/event-beta/community/add).

Regards,
Scott

[Scott Barnett]

Geoff,

Actually, one other thing. I do get the idea of starting with a “fresh” site and load the plugins one at a time – I’ve also found it helpful to disable plugins to uncover issues. In this case, I’d like to disable Broadstreet on that page, but because it’s not really a Page, I don’t know how to do that. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Scott

[Geoff]

Hey Scott,

Oh yeah, I did leave out a key detail: the shortcode will only work is you are not currently using pretty permalinks in WordPress. In that case, a redirect would be the best bet for a custom URL. Sorry about that!

I’d like to disable Broadstreet on that page, but because it’s not really a Page, I don’t know how to do that. Any ideas?

I think that would depend on how the Broadstreet script is being added. For example, if it’s in a global file, like footer.php or something, then perhaps try wrapping it in a conditional statement to exclude it from community pages.

For example:

<?php if ( function_exists( ‘tribe_community_events_logout_url’ ) ) {
[Broadstreet script]
}
?>

Geoff

[Geoff]

Hi Scott,

I see my last reply was marked as the correct answer. I’ll go ahead and close this thread but please do open a new one if any other questions pop up and we’d be happy to help. 🙂

Cheers and hope you had a great weekend!

Geoff

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