Removing Advanced Template Settings data from single event?

[James]

Hi,

Love your products.

My question is a combination really, I use the Avada theme and recently they updated the theme to include styling for the Event Calendar. Personally I don’t like the fact it overrides my custom styling with no way to turn it off and revert to the standard styling. They have it so it puts all the event details in a sidebar on the right hand side, therefore if I have a long description of the event, it leaves too much “white space” on the right hand side.

You can see this new styling at https://www.jamesdoylephoto.com/activities-calendar/

Back to my question, in an attempt to reduce this white space, is there a way to remove the Advanced Template Settings from the single event pages and only have it show on the calendar month page?

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Cheers

James

[Josh]

Hey James,

Thanks for reaching out to us!

I apologize for the inconvenience. We received an updated copy of the Avada theme yesterday and personally like the styles that are added but can understand your complaints here.

For the “Advanced Template Settings” could you be more specific about what you’re wanting removed here? Are you wanting the template reverted back to the default styling here?

Thanks!

[James]

Hi Josh,

Thanks for replying.

Ok basically I run tours and field trips which are fairly detail heavy, often well over 300 words. Over the past year or so I made a number of templates of the different activities so I could “cut and paste” the “style” into event calendar, to keep things consistent. These were full page width allowing for photographs to be included on the page with the event booking at the bottom of the page.

With this sidebar idea, even with a 50% 50% sizing, with the sidebar on the right. I end up with a long column of information on the left and a short sidebar on the right with nothing but white space beneath it. My website at the moment doesn’t reflex this very well because I had to spend over sixteen hours rewriting all the current events that were live trying to make them look reasonable.

With the “Advanced Template Settings”; on the old version I used these for information about how to navigate and make a booking at the very top of the page, much like a header but with the new version this is put into a column which takes up too much real estate and pushes all my added text further down the page creating more white space beneath the sidebar on the right hand side.

With regards to my original question about the “Advanced Template Settings”, I can still put the header and footer text full width on the month calendar view, which is great but this same text is put into the righthand column on the single event page, thereby pushing all the event info further down the page creating more white space beneath the righthand sidebar. I was asking if there is a way to have the “Advanced Template Settings” header and footer only on the Month view and removing it from the single event pages.

If I could somehow “break” the page into sections (I don’t know all the technical terms) so at the top and bottom of the sidebar, I could put text in as full page width, that would be great. I don’t know how to do this though. Or if I can remove the whole sidebar effect and have all the data at full width like previously in the older version.

I’m not sure if the above makes sense. I like the “look” of the styling but think in my case the layout is very restrictive with having two columns only e.g. my long text on the left and a short sidebar on the right.

Cheers

James

• This reply was modified 10 years, 6 months ago by James. Reason: additional information

[Josh]

Hey James,

So you’ve got custom content that you have above every event that you’ve entered into the Advanced Template Settings WYSIWYG under the Event Settings > Display tab?

If so, you can modify the “default-template.php” to ensure that “<?php tribe_events_before_html(); ?>” is displayed outside of any column formatting that might be set within your theme. You should be able to find this file within your theme and within a “tribe-events” folder.

Let me know if this helps.

Thanks!

[James]

Hi Josh,

That worked a charm. I managed to get the Advanced Template Settings back as full page width.

I had to transfer some of my event text over into the Additional Fields side to even out the two column idea. I originally had this text in the main copy, but it just made the left column too long. Is there something I can modify in the code or css to make the page full width after the end of the right hand sidebar?

Thanks again for your help Josh.

Cheers
James

[Josh]

Hey James,

No problem. Took another look at your site and it appears that you may have gotten this one worked out already (https://cloudup.com/c64Uh0PszhZ)? Let me know if I’m misunderstanding this last request though, if so would you mind sending a screenshot and link to an area that you would like to be full-width?

Thanks!

[James]

Hi Josh,

Yes I think I can manage it now, so you can close this ticket.

The people over at Avada told me I couldn’t do what I was hoping to do, because of the way the templates are set up. Not to worry.

Thanks for your assistance to date Josh.

Cheers

[Josh]

Hey James,

No problem. Sorry to hear about the templating issue here.

I’ll go ahead and close this thread for now. If you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to open a new thread.

Thanks!

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