[Barry]

Hi mastafu,

From domain.com/event/events-name/date
to domain.com/events-name

Ordinarily you should only see the date if it is an instance of a recurring event. What sort of method would you prefer to use to identify the actual event date if it was not passed via the URL (given that all instances of a recurring event share the same slug)?

[Barry]

Hi Mastafu,

We’re open to exploring changes here. What I’d highlight straight away though is that if, hypothetically, we were to change the permalink structure across the board as of the next release then that would in itself have a potentially negative impact on many users who might not be so keen to see changes here.

The Url is wrong (SEO and logical reasons). Right now it is domain.com/event/events-name/date and it should be (if anything) domain.com/event/date/events-name

Can you help us to understand why this is better for SEO reasons? In terms of being more logical I have to say I think that is very subjective – I personally don’t think the format you are proposing is particularly more logical – but we’d be interested in hearing your arguments and, with regards to being better for SEO, any references you can provide to support this.

That’s not to put you on the spot but simply to help us better understand your point of view.

Normal order is domain/category/subcategory/item
In your case we have it like that: domain/category/item/subcategory

Can you describe the set-up that would lead to this sort of URL being used – is this for single event URLs and if so what is your permalink structure?

[Barry]

Hi John – can you provide some more details:

• Do you have a URL so that we can observe this problem for ourselves?
• Have you tried our standard troubleshooting steps of deactivating all other plugins and reverting to a default, unmodified theme? If so does this impact on the problem at all?
• Should you be using a caching plugin, please remember that deactivating it does not necessarily mean cached pages will cease to be served (so check in with the author/team behind the caching solution if that’s the case)
• Is there a particular view or view you are expecting to see the toggle appear on or does this affect all views so far as you can see?

Thanks!

[Barry]

Hi elementalhealing – you could try adding something like this (which should hide the before HTML field contents on all views except month view) to your theme’s functions.php file.

If you have something other than the month/calendar grid as your main events view or have other requirements then of course you might need to tweak it slightly 🙂

Hope that helps!

[Barry]

Does this happen only if you are using the Default Events Template / have you tried adjusting the template setting as indicated in my last post and does that impact on this at all?

Thanks!

[Barry]

Hi Tim – I’m afraid the events calendar widget isn’t built to do that. You could definitely investigate customizing it, though, especially if you are familiar with WP development – we’ve got some useful tutorials, technical docs and a themer’s guide that might be of interest if you want to investigate this 🙂

[Barry]

Hi John,

Thanks for the feedback.

We definitely don’t want to give the impression we’re slamming the door in your face and you’re right, we should certainly allow you to follow up rather than closing the thread after the initial post – that was the wrong course of action and that’s something we will not do again going forward. Please accept our and my apologies on that count.

With regards to shortcodes: I don’t personally agree that shortcodes are integral to all plugin implementations, but that doesn’t mean we’re not listening and we are very much conscious that there is demand for certain shortcodes. Right now, however, there are very few shortcodes facilitated by our event plugins – and those that currently exist are not really intended for general use. With that in mind, if you decide you need or want a shortcode that performs a specific function then you are welcome to post a feature request. In the short term though, if you need to go ahead and implement something like this, it really can only be a custom development task – we simply can’t build it for you.

The use of emoticons in responses is purely a matter of personal choice, there’s no overarching company policy there. I’m sorry if it jars with you – I for one find them a useful tool in what is a predominantly text-only channel of communication but can accept that of course that not everyone sees them that way.

To the question at hand:

You have implemented a custom type in your plugin, i.e. ‘tribe_events’, why does a custom page template not work as with any other custom type implemented in WP when viewing a post of type ‘tribe_events’, so following WP standard template hierarchy standards?

The Events Calendar overrides some parts of the default template hierarchy and also creates a new template hierarchy of its own, which we feel better accommodates presentation of events-related data.

Decisions like this one in many ways come down to personal choice rather than being a straightforward case of what is right and what is wrong and there are various avenues open to you here. For instance rather than set up a filter you might override and customize the default events template and use that as a branching off point (if you need different templates for different scenarios) or if your case is more straightforward go ahead and customize the default events template itself (and add whatever you need there, without creating separate templates).

Does that help?

[Barry]

It definitely sounds possible and we do have some technical notes on the meta walker that might be of interest if you want to get into the nuts and bolts of the meta walker itself.

That said, it sounds like if you need to add not only additional meta fields and possibly groups but also new sub menus within the admin environment that this is very much a custom development task and we would need to leave you to figure out the details of this.

[Barry]

Hi Steve/Dulcie,

I’m not really clear on what you are trying to achieve. Do you mean that you have overridden and customized the default single venue template? If so, what are you trying to remove and what are you trying to add? The default venue page already lists all upcoming events at that venue – so when you refer to adding related events do you mean events that are related by some other criteria?

Thanks!

[Barry]

Hi shimatorabi,

I do appreciate your frustration but this is, essentially, a customization issue and there is a real limit to how much help we can provide there: there are a great many themes and theme frameworks out there and realistically we can’t be proficient in all of them.

I ended up getting the sidebar on the details pages by choosing the default template and not the calendar template, and manually assign a side bar to it.

Can you locate the code in this template responsible for displaying the sidebar and share it via Pastebin or Gist? Combining this with the code I suggested here is one probably path towards a solution.

That said, I do realize you stated in the previous thread that you are not comfortable working with code. That being the case – and if you don’t feel you’d be able to locate the theme code that displays the sidebar – would you alternatively like a list of freelancers that you could contact for further assistance?

[Barry]

Hi Glenn – can you provide any more detail? Is this in relation to recurring events? If so, we sometimes talk of a “chain” of events. Please bear in mind that if you have a recurring event taking place on the following dates:

* October 23
* October 30
* November 6
* November 13

And you then edit the November 6 instance and select Apply to All it will actually break the above in to two separate chains:

* October 23
* October 30

The first two would be one chain and would remain unmodified, the second chain would reflect your modifications and would consist of:

* November 6
* November 13

To edit and apply the change to every event in the original chain you must edit the first event in the sequence (in my example, October 23) and then apply/update all. Since breaking the chain in two doesn’t cause the title to change the fact that this has happened may not be immediately apparent when viewing the list of events via the main admin events list.

I’m not sure if that helps/relates to what you are experiencing, but if it does not or you have further questions please don’t hesitate to ask 🙂

Thanks!

[Barry]

Hi sguilliard,

I’m not aware of any conflict here (though there may be) – but really I feel this is in the domain of custom development and integration with something like a lightbox script isn’t going to be something we can really assist with, unfortunately.

[Barry]

$url = tribe_get_event_meta( $venue_id, '_VenueURL', true );

[Barry]

Excellent, thanks for updating 🙂

[Barry]

Hi Tyler: we’re using the regular post_tag taxonomy, so what I’d try in the first instance is simply swapping out tribe_meta_event_tags for post_tag. I hope that helps!

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