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Perfect, that did it! Thank so much.

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Hi Barry,

Thanks so much for your response. The events are on a membership only site but for testing purposes I’ve just opened it up. You can take a look at http://decor8blog.com/ecourses/events. I’ve inspected the elements in Firefox with Firebug but am unsure as to how to fix it. If I use CSS > inline on the form it changes formatting completely and becomes unresponsive (an option that had been suggested on other forums). The theme developer is rather unresponsive hence posting here.

Thanks,
Thorsten

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@joinfof It’s called All-In-One Event Calendar. It doesn’t work well on my site so I ended up not using it, but it does do a great job importing Facebook group events, even if the group itself is set to private – as long as the events are open to anyone. It also syncs events, which is great if an event changed on Facebook. And, it imports any event’s timezone (though it does change the time to local time still). Since it uses the FB API I am sure all this should work over here as well.

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Hi Julie,

That’s quite brilliant! Thanks so much for that recommendation. I’ve added a custom filed called “Time Zone”. True, it’s manual, but works for now.

I’ve also added a URL custom field called “What’s My Time Zone?”. Would it be possible to have this populated with default content (which would be http://www.timeanddate.com/time/map/)? I have no problem digging in to the code itself to make that happen, I’ve had to ‘hack’ quite a few plugins lately to make them fit. I want students to quickly check their current time zone, which helps to clarify.

Thank you again,
Thorsten

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Hey Julie,

Thank you so much for your response and also for your generous refund offer. But TEC does so much right already that I’d rather keep it and deal with the shortcomings until enhancements come out – though I would rather see them sooner than later.

We do not have a ton of events anyway so I just have to manually adjust the times after each import. I’ll also establish some rules as to when we import an events (basically once it’s finalized) so that we avoid constant re-imports.

The timezone issue might be good to look at in general. I am sure there are quite few TEC users that schedule events across different timezones and it would be good to have at least some type of identifier.

TEC’s aesthetic works for us, it looks clean and well thought out. It fits perfectly with out site. So I’ve voted on the already existing feature ideas for the Facebook plugin and hope you guys consider them for a near future release.

Thank you,
Thorsten

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It seems the issue resolved itself (perhaps it was a plugin conflict after all). I’ve removed the [raw][/raw] tags and also removed the before and after HTML filters from function.php. Everything stays tidy. Do please have a look to verify, in case I am seeing things pulled from some local cache.

On a side note I’ve noticed that the calendar doesn’t quite fit on a iPhone screen due to the day labels. It stops at roughly Frid, so Saturday and Sunday are omitted. But this may have already been mentioned before.

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Never mind, I was wrong (I have a VERY complex configuration). I had already switched back to eastern time zone.

So Facebook events are pulled in and converted to whatever the WP timezone is set to. That’s controlled by the API? So a German event scheduled at 10:00 AM UTC+1 will actually show up as 4:00 AM UTC-5 when pulled in to our site, insatiably confusing our German students who expect it to be 10:00 AM? Will it revert back to 10:00 AM if they export to iCal/Google?

I still like the other plugin’s group import option though, that would be nice to have here as well. We don’t have a lot of events but people do tend to change them a bit and right now we need to do manual updates to account for that rather than simply hitting refresh.

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I did a bit more digging and actually came across another WP events plugin that allows importing Facebook events. Their approach is a bit different as they directly link to one’s Facebook account to pull pages, groups and friends. The most interesting option is groups, especially since we’re running a closed group. Their Facebook connection actually allows pulling public events from a closed group, keeping them in sync with updates on Facebook. That is something I was hoping your plugin would accomplish as well. It only does so partially as I need to plugin each event’s ID and import manually (and of course it’s not being kept in sync this way, or is if I re-import the same event?)

But, more importantly, it imports with the correct time and an identifier. For example, we have a Brooklyn event coming up. When I switched our WP to the Berlin timezone (to check for our German members) the event pulled in with a note similar to “11:00 AM eastern time (5:00PM)” – and it then exports it accordingly to Google and iCal. That’s exactly what I am looking for.

Now, I paid good money for your plugin so can’t just move on (and don’t want to as the other one messes with our complex install too much). Any chance at someone here taking a look at what they’re doing? I am not going to post a link or name the other plugin unless you’re ok with it.

Cheers,
Thorsten

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Hi Julie,
I think I already found an answer to my question, in as much as TEC doesn’t offer any timezone tracking, which is quite unfortunate.
Our WP timezone is set to NY as we’re located on the east coast (Portsmouth, NH). However, events on FB are scheduled around the world. And the students of our ecourse are also from around the world.
The problem now is that if I import an event scheduled for London, which say is set to 11:00 AM UTC, imports as UTC-5, so 6:00 AM. There is no timezone identified declaring this as EST now. So students from London will see the event on Facebook as 11:00 AM, but as 6:00 AM on our site.
Unless you’re saying that TEC does account for a user’s own timezone? Meaning they see the event as 6:00 AM but in Google Calendar/iCal it will show up in their local timezone? I tried that by setting my time zone to UTC on my PC, but when I imported the event in question it still showed as simply 6:00 AM, not 11:00 AM. In Google I could pick a timezone manually, but that would be tedious.
Do let me know if I got this all wrong.

Thorsten

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Sorry, my bad, still trying to get to grips with Cloudflare and it’s features.

This link should work: http://decor8blog.com/downloads/hotlink-ok/Capture.PNG

I know that usually just a bit of CSS is needed to correct these issues though I am not knowledgeable enough to figure out what exactly. Though my theme allows for custom CSS and that’s where I plug in CSS snippets developers provide me with to fix issues. Hence my inquiry. I am not really asking for changing any templates, just a CSS snippet to correct te DIV/Class/Entity to align again properly.

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