[Barry]

Hi Steven,

Something still doesn’t look right there. I see this class being applied to the widget container:

s_tribe_mini_calendar_widget

Ordinarily I’d expect this to be (no leading “s_”):

tribe_mini_calendar_widget

Is it possible a typo crept in when changing the code to register the sidebar, or something else of that order?

[Barry]

Hmm, that is strange – but just to confirm, you do still also have Events Calendar PRO activated at this point? Both The Events Calendar and Events Calendar PRO must be activated for the clean up plugin to function.

[Barry]

Hi!

There are a few ways to do this – template overrides are one of the easiest but it really depends on where you want to make the change. Your first stop though should be our Themer’s Guide which covers the basics 🙂

To take an example, if you want to change the word Tickets that appears above the ticket form in single event views, you could override the wotickets/tickets.php template and, in your own copy, find this line:

<h2><?php _e( 'Tickets', 'tribe-wootickets' );?></h2>

Simply change it to whatever you need, ie:

<h2>Waitlist Reservations</h2>

Does that help?

[Barry]

Hi – anything is possible 🙂

That said, out of the box you won’t be able to restrict the main calendar view to just a few specific categories without a small amount of customization work. However, you can easily workaround this with a little creativity – for instance, create a new parent category called Main Calendar and slot in some sub-categories (you can then link to month view for that specific category from your menu).

This is all possible with the free, core plugin – but more advanced stuff is certainly possible, particularly with our awesome Filter Bar plugin.

I hope that answers your questions but please let me know if we can help with anything else.

[Barry]

Hi!

Sorry you’re facing difficulties.

When an event is submitted anonymously it isn’t actually assigned to any author. To bear this out, try anonymously submitting an event – then, in the list of events that displays in the admin environment, add the author column (via the Filters & Columns meta box that displays above the list) and hit apply: you should see that the newly submitted event has no author.

Within the event editor, though, WordPress will attempt to assign an author as soon as it is edited – so as part of your workflow you could set this appropriately when you approve/publish/edit the event.

One thing I’m not clear on is why this is a problem, exactly – ordinarily the event author isn’t exposed in single event view (and, looking at your site, I don’t see it being exposed in single event pages there, either).

Just to help us get a better handle on why this is causing you difficulties, can you describe where this is being exposed and why that’s problematic? It’s certainly something we could think about revising in a future release, but I’d love a little more insight 🙂

[Barry]

Hi!

If you wish only to move the event data across you might use WordPress’s own import/export tools (and select only Events, Venues and Organizers when you export).

Alternatively, if you want to shift everything across, you might make use of a plugin like Duplicator.

Does that help?

[Barry]

Hi AJ,

It looks like end times are missing from events listed in the events list widget and the schedule details section of single event posts (the date/time info that displays right below the event title) … am I right in thinking the only remaining problem is in the meta section (under the Details heading)?

Can you confirm if there are any other areas still holding out on us?

[Barry]

Hi: I’m sorry you’re experiencing difficulties.

When you say it churns and churns, is this within the admin environment? I did visit http://www.stjamesmillcreek.org/events/ and the calendar loaded pretty snappily so I’m guessing that’s not the problem. Can you confirm?

Thanks!

[Barry]

Hi!

There are a few different ways you could tackle this – but there are quite a few angles you’d need to consider and it’s broadly speaking a more advanced customization than we can help you with. I’m not honestly sure if you can adapt the datepicker format after it has already been registered (but if you want to research this in more depth, Datepicker for Bootstrap is the library we’re using).

It may simply be easiest to remove the existing date selector and replace it with your own, using some code like this:

add_action( 'init', 'replace_tribe_bar_search_field', 50 );

function replace_tribe_bar_search_field() {
	$callback = array( TribeEvents::instance(), 'setup_date_search_in_bar' );
	remove_filter( 'tribe-events-bar-filters', $callback, 1, 1 );
	add_filter( 'tribe-events-bar-filters', 'replacement_date_field' );
}

function replacement_date_field( $filters ) {
	array_unshift( $filters, array(
		'name' => 'custom-date-search',
		'caption' => 'Date',
		'html' => '<input type="text" name="datesearch" value="Some date" />'
	) );
	return $filters;
}

From there need to set up your own Javascript to ensure the datepicker is attached to your replacement date field (that would let you control the format – you could also leverage the same library we use) and you’d probably also need to adapt the HTML or else otherwise style it with additional CSS to really make it mesh nicely.

Do bear in mind also that map view is essentially a list view – so though you might effectively force it to show a list starting on the 1st of a given month it won’t ordinarily be limited only to events in that month unless you execute some further customizations.

I hope that at least gives you a few ideas you can explore – and good luck 🙂

[Barry]

Hi!

That sounds like a great idea – it’s a fairly bespoke customization though so the amount of help we can offer is limited – but here is the sort of approach I’d explore if I were personally taking this on.

First of all, review this tutorial which explains how you can set the calendar widget to any month you like using syntax like:

new Tribe_Advance_Minical('2014-12'); // December 2014

Then create a new wrapper function (which you might define this in your theme’s functions.php file). Within that function, you could:

• Determine the month/year of the current event by using tribe_get_start_date()
• Set up a Tribe_Advance_Minical object as described above, using the event date (in yyyy-mm format)
• Use WordPress’s the_widget() function to actually pull in the widget itself

You could probably wrap this up quite nicely within a single function then just drop your custom function into a template override for single-event.php (please see our Themer’s Guide for an outline of this process if you haven’t already done so).

Again, we can’t really offer much more for a customization of this nature but I hope that at least gives you a few ideas.

Good luck 🙂

[Barry]

Hi – great question!

That’s potentially a fairly tricky customization to make but you can certainly re-order and expand upon what is displayed in the meta output for single events. Right now, that means working with the meta factory and you’re welcome to give that a blast.

However, if possible I’d actually recommend holding off until our very next release arrives. This will make it so that you can override and customize the meta output just like any other set of templates and that will potentially make some aspects of what you are trying to do a lot easier (certainly tweaking the single event meta output will be notably simplified).

Would that work for you?

[Barry]

Hi – that is definitely odd behaviour.

I wonder though if it is more complicated than just a conflict with WooCommerce (simply because lots of users have this combination and don’t hit problems – nor do I see the same thing when I test it out locally). Can you try out a variation of our normal troubleshooting steps?

• Please deactivate everything except The Events Calendar, Events Calendar PRO and WooCommerce
• Switch to a default, unmodified theme such as Twenty Thirteen
• Does the problem still occur?

It would be useful to know this as it may be that (just as an example) your theme includes code that integrates with WooCommerce and has some unwanted side effect – in which case the issue wouldn’t really be with either our plugins or WooCommerce.

Can you give that a go and let me know how you get on?

[Barry]

Hi Ian!

It is almost infinitely customizable so you could certainly do what you’ve outlined (and you can get a great sense as to how customizations work by reviewing our Themer’s Guide and this comprehensive set of tutorials).

and if so, what are the steps

We don’t deliver technical support here in pre-sales I’m afraid, but certainly once you’ve purchased a license please do feel free to post a thread in our PRO forum and one of the team will be happy to help.

Thanks!

[Barry]

Hi Gary – interesting use case!

Given what you’ve outlined I think a combination of The Events Calendar (our free, core plugin), WooCommerce Tickets and WooCommerce itself – also free – would fit your needs nicely 🙂

You can get a great idea of how it works, looks and feels by reviewing our WooCommerce Tickets New User Primer.

Of course we’ve got a range of other ticketing solutions that integrate with other ecommerce engines (so if for example you are already using/prefer to use Easy Digital Downloads or something else it’s quite possible we can help!) but if you don’t have any particular preferences then the above combination is probably the best and most straightforward way to go.

I hope that answers your questions, but please don’t hesitate to let me know if I can help with anything else.

[Barry]

I’m glad you got things working (and thank you for sharing the final solution – it could definitely be useful for others).

As an aside, we’re always interested in people’s experiences with The Events Calendar and if you wanted to share a review we’d love to hear from you 🙂

Since it looks like everything is on track here I’ll go ahead and close this thread but please don’t hesitate to create new threads as needed if we can help with anything else.

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