Some theme incompatibilities

[geofffitch]

On the upcoming events page –
– the font of the event description is abnormally large – not our normal paragraph font
– your screen shot shows a hr between each event – this is missing
On the calendar page,
– calendar overlaps with the page footer.
On the event detail page,
– Event title is missing
– the width of the area at the top between the two horizontal lines seems to jump all over the place, depending on the Venue that is selected. Note I’ve created three different events with different Venue’s to demonstrate that problem.

I have a few others, but I’ll start with these ones. Note that I have the page template set to a page with an empty right side bar. If I set this to a full-width page, it introduces many more problems on the event detail page.

[geofffitch]

I added the URL on the post, but it doesn’t display. Let me know if you need it.

[geofffitch]

And… the theme is Nimble from http://dream-theme.com/

[geofffitch]

Anyone there? I posted this last Thursday but no response yet. Thanks for your help.

[Barry]

Hi Geoff – sorry for the delay in responding:

the font of the event description is abnormally large – not our normal paragraph font

You may need to override events.css … one way of doing this would be to copy that file from:

wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/resources/events.css

And place it in:

wp-content/themes/{YOUR-THEME}/events/events.css

Then change the font-size entry on line 358 to:

font-size: 12px;

Can you let me know how you get on with that and then we can move on to the next issue.

[geofffitch]

Thanks – that worked great. I would add on the note that the event title is missing on the details page, there is no title on the events listing page either. I noticed on your screen shot on the events listing page, it says “Calendar of Events” and on the detail page, it lists the event name.

Help with some of these other issues would be greatly appreciated.

[Barry]

Can you provide a link to your site?

[Barry]

Sorry, ignore that last post.

Can you login to your site, visit Events > Settings > Template and tell me what the Event Template setting is (ie, default events template or default page template) and even try experimenting with that a little?

[geofffitch]

I had this set to a template from the theme we are using called “Page with sidebar”. Here’s what I notice:

When set to “Default Events Template” – numerous other formatting issues are introduced. The logo/menu from our template disappears, and I would say using the full page width makes the event list not well formatted. The Calendar does not display at all. The Event Detail page looks good, except for the lack of theme logo/menu. Good news: the Events page and Event detail page have titles as expected.

When set to “Page with Sidebar”, which is a page from our template, the events list page, is better formatted, perhaps because it the main page body is narrow. The calendar displays but runs over the footer of the page. The event detail pages are not well formatted in that the details section seems to vary in width depending on the content of the fields. Plus, no titles are displayed.

Some screen shots to demonstrate: http://dropcanvas.com/ac7ji

Geoff

[Barry]

I’ve no idea why we can’t see the event title. Can you send your theme across as a .zip so I can test it? (Please send to [email protected], marking for my attention and including a link back to this thread.)

[westcoastwifi]

I am also having an issue with display of titles on both ECP and Community Events.
http://www.thewifihotspot.com/events/ — shows title of event
http://www.thewifihotspot.com/events/community/add — shows WP Router Placeholder Page

I am using the default page template in both. When I switch to the default event template the events page shows the title but the background bleeds through. Nothing changes on the Community/Add page. All the other templates have the same effect.
I have sent my theme as a .zip file to the above email.
Thank you for your assistance!

[Barry]

Hi westcoastwifi,

Can you create a new thread to discuss your issues? If for instance we need to obtain further information from one or both of you, or ask one or both of you to run through some other troubleshooting steps, this could rapidly become confusing 🙂

Geoff: I’m taking a look now and will update you shortly.

[Barry]

Geoff: to deal with the missing headers first of all, that’s a CSS issue (your theme makes anything with the CSS class clearfix invisible), so let’s deal with that first of all. Adding this rule to your custom events.css file (place it at the bottom if you are unsure where it needs to go):

#tribe-events-content .clearfix { visibility: visible }

Should make the header area appear on the month view (calendar grid) and upcoming event lists. Can you confirm if that works for you?

[Barry]

For your other problem, the missing event titles (on single event posts), one workaround is to create a custom version of single.php – please see our themer’s guide and template overrides tutorial if you are unsure about any of this.

The contents of your custom events/single.php might look like this – and that should ensure that the event title is present.

[Barry]

I think the other remaining issue was the calendar overflowing and obscuring the footer. Again this seems to be a CSS conflict with your theme … in your custom events.css can you also add:

#tribe-events-content.grid { height: auto }

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