[Barry]

Hi!

So the first thing to read up on is our Themer’s Guide – particularly the section on setting up a custom tribe-events.css stylesheet.

To deal with the crushed calendar headers there are two things we can do. One is to add a rule like this one to your own tribe-events.css stylesheet:

#tribe-events table th { font-size: 10px; }

The other is to override the month/loop-grid.php template and, in your custom version, find this line of code:

$days_of_week = tribe_events_get_days_of_week();

Replace it with:

$days_of_week = tribe_events_get_days_of_week( true );

Which should force short (typically 3-letter) day names.

Does that help with that particular problem?

[Barry]

Hi – great question!

It sounds like you need a solution that allows some users to submit events, but also to retail tickets to those same events. If that’s the case, a combination of our core, free plugin The Events Calendar – plus our awesome Community Events and WooCommerce Tickets addons – could form a solid platform for you to build on.

I suspect there would still be a few challenges to solve to fully meet your spec (disbursement of funds, for instance) but something like the above combination would likely get you 90% of the way to your goal and save you immeasurable development time.

As you mention Eventbrite, I also wanted to drop a note in that we have a plugin integrating with that very service (in case integration with Evenbrite is a possibility for you).

I hope that gives you a few ideas – but please don’t hesitate to let me know if I can offer any further guidance.

Thanks!

[Barry]

Can you try commenting it out/temporarily removing it, then deactivate The Events Calendar, and see if you’re still left with the same problem?

The thing is that the code refers to TribeEvents::POSTTYPE but that symbol will not be defined if The Events Calendar is no longer active.

[Barry]

Great!

[Barry]

as I said earlier, when I disabled the plugin, it made the site go blank. That’s not right, surely?

No, that’s not right. So do you have any code in your theme/theme’s functions.php file that relates to The Events Calendar? Might that be the source of the problem (in that, if The Events Calendar is inactive and it’s libraries haven’t been loaded, any such code in your theme will fail)?

If so, you’d need to remove those customizations or protect them with extra safeguards.

[Barry]

Ohhh I see!

You’re right, we don’t currently include the time (if you’d like to suggest this as a configurable option, though, please feel free to post a feature request).

 

[Barry]

Definitely and you’re right – there are a set of relationships that are mapped out through post meta data – but if you’ve already got a reference to the product itself you should be good to concentrate on the WooCommerce side of things.

Just in case though, the basic scheme we use is:

• Products have a piece of meta data named _tribe_wooticket_for_event linking them to the event post
• Once tickets are purchased ticket posts are generated and these are linked to the order via the _tribe_wooticket_order key

I hope that helps – and good luck with the project 🙂

[Barry]

Awesome, thanks for the update.

In that case I’ll go ahead and close the thread – but if we can help with anything else (or this does resurface in production) please don’t hesitate to create a new thread and one of the team will be happy to help 🙂

Last but not least, we’re always interested in hearing feedback about The Events Calendar in general and if you wished to share a review that would be fantastic!

Thanks again!

[Barry]

OK – if you’re happy accessing WordPress directly that’s probably best.

I wonder if you might ask the authors of the iPhone app if custom post types are generally supported directly? It’s possible they are not.

[Barry]

Could you please clarify what I need to ask for from a provider. There’s nothing in the documentation that I can find that states minimum specs from the host.

Right – because the plugin will run pretty much in any environment meeting the minimum standards for WP itself. What’s tricky though is offering guidelines above and beyond that.

The caching systems you have (and are able to set up), the volume of traffic, the hardware, the web server itself, how much work the database server is fielding (perhaps it serves multiple otherwise independent hosting accounts) right through to your PHP memory settings and how many plugins you have installed all impact … and that’s not even taking into consideration the number and nature of events you are dealing with – or indeed the event related settings.

Every now and then, for example, we see people who have effectively lifted the limit on the number of events that can be displayed per table cell in month view and, in some cases, over a thousand events are being rendered in that view: naturally, if a cached version of that view cannot be served (or whenever it must be generated), building views in conditions like that is going to be comparatively resource-intensive than if reasonable constraints were in place.

Not to say that last example is directly applicable here – but just to give a sense of the complexity of situations like this.

Taking things down to brass-tacks, though, given the number of events you have and assuming it’s not an unpopular site it may be that trying to host it on this particular plan may be overly ambitious – and perhaps upgrading to something on the next tier, or to a VPS with suitable dedicated resources, would be worth investigating.

Yes, he was highlighting that IF statement specifically. Having said that, I don’t understand it myself, so was hoping it’d mean more to you than to me.

OK, well I’ll certainly note it for future review – it definitely will cause more work to be done than if it wasn’t present, of course, but I’m not sure saying it causes a load of data to be returned (that wouldn’t otherwise be) is valid.

All that to say, we definitely appreciate your feedback and insight into your situation – it’s valued and potentially will help us to shape things in a way that will benefit you and other customers over the lifetime of the product.

I’m not sure there’s too much more we can offer in the short-term though, unless you have any further questions?

[Barry]

Hi Leigh,

While you can’t upload images directly to the forum you can upload them to your WP site, or to a service like Droplr or Dropbox, and share the links here.

I took a quick look at your site via the URL you shared – I couldn’t immediately locate the main events page, though: can you share a link to that (privately if you prefer)?

Thanks!

[Barry]

Is this an issue with settings, that past events are not displayed in category view? Is there any kind of solution here?

By default category (and list view) generally shows only upcoming events. Ordinarily though there is a link to let you “page back” and view past events – it looks like that isn’t present and I wonder if that might be the result of some customizations you have made?

[Barry]

Hi – great question!

You should see a box above the events list labelled Filters & Columns – you can use this to add or remove columns from the list (look for the Add a Column dropdown) … and don’t forget to hit the Apply button.

Does that help?

[Barry]

Hi!

So you’re going to need to set up a custom wootickets/tickets.php template for this – that’s pretty easy and you can find full details in our Themer’s Guide – but in essence you would copy the existing template found at:

plugins/wootickets/views/wootickets/tickets.php

And place a copy within your theme:

themes/YOUR_THEME/tribe-events/wootickets/tickets.php

Then just find this piece of code:

$woocommerce->cart->get_cart_url()

Change it to:

$woocommerce->cart->get_checkout_url()

Does that help?

[Barry]

is possible hide only the link “previous and next” event at detail of event??

An alternative approach would be to set up a custom template (month/nav.php) – full details of this process are described in our Themer’s Guide, but in essence you could simply create an empty file located as follows:

wp-content/themes/your_theme/tribe-events/month/nav.php

Since this generates the next/prev month links, if it is left empty none will actually display.

Might that help?

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