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At this point I’m going to close the thread as we’ve got what looks to be a workable interim solution and it would also seem there’s a good chance of a fix being pushed out for Genesis in the near future.
Of course if it does become a lingering problem and anyone here wants to check in and see if it’s one we provide further help with then please don’t hesitate to create a new thread.
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Hi twentwatchers, that thread has now been closed as I’m sure you are aware. We’ve obviously let you down here but per Rob’s comments in this thread if you want to take these issues up again please communicate with Rob by email, or else create new threads for individual, specific issues.
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Yes, in most cases that’s true – sorry if I didn’t make that clear enough. Glad it’s working for you 🙂
Hi Nini – so I could totally be missing something here – but what is the difference between your custom month/single-event.php and the original?
What I mean is – if they are indeed the same, how are you establishing that the override is not being used?
Thanks guys, there are a lot of voices in here covering a lot of ground – but I’ll try and address some of the key points and questions you have all raised.
can i go back to the previous iteration, 2 point whatever it is, and use the community events from that iteration, as well?
Indeed you can – please see our FAQ on this very topic: https://theeventscalendar.com/faqs/help-i-upgraded-but-its-causing-me-problems-how-can-i-downgrade-to-a-pre-3-0-version/ … do note that the amount of support we can offer for 2.x going forward will be limited, however.
A custom post type’s archive page should use the theme’s archive template, if it has.
I’m not sure I agree.
That may work in some cases, but the paradigm begins to break down when presenting event data in useful ways. As always we’re open to discussion on the topic – but what we’ve basically done here is contrive a way to reliably deliver visually useful views such as month and week view in a consistent manner across themes.
Does it breakdown with Genesis? To some extent perhaps, but as far as I can see with a number of tweaks the ship can be righted quite easily and, indeed, some amount of fine tuning is often required with many themes for a truly snug fit.
Twenty Twelve’s default page template is content-page.php.
Well, to my mind the default page template, if it exists, is page.php. If it does not exist it becomes index.php by default.
As it happens, for better and clearer organization Twenty Twelve breaks things up further and uses an additional template called content-page.php (not actually a part of the de facto template hierarchy) however I’m not sure what you are getting at with this point – if you enable Default Page Template then content-page.php is indeed loaded and is used to display the page – you can verify that for yourself by placing a breakpoint inside that very template.
Your confusion on this point probably arises from the fact that you are not seeing a title inside an <h1> element as you perhaps expect – however that is by design and again comes back to delivering a consistent experience across a wide spectrum of themes.
Even the post id is a mess here if you take a look at the html
Like many other plugins we use ‘virtual pages’ and a true post ID is not applicable. It is for that reason set to -9999 to distinguish it from ‘real’ posts.
You’re still creating content in WordPress like what used to be done in earlier years of WP … We have filters and hooks nowadays.
We are well aware of the existence of actions and filters and are making extensive use of them. I don’t really get your point here.
All in all, though we’re open to critique of the architecture and processes used behind the scenes in The Events Calendar our primary interest here on the support forum is in A) helping people to get up and running with The Events Calendar and B) collating and where possible resolving bug reports.
Right now I’m concerned this thread has veered of course and we’re not achieving that, so I am going to close it.
Excellent, and as it looks like one of the Genesis mods will add that fix to their theme you should be relatively safe there.
So, after discussing this what we’re going to do going forward is ensure the query (for all non-singular views such as individual events or venues) is set as being an archive type.
It’s important to note though that this doesn’t necessarily mean an archive template from your theme will be used to display the result of that query – especially if Default Events Template or Default Page Template is in use – as the nature of the query and the template used to deliver the content are two distinct things.
My previous problem with your “default page template” is the same: you are not using THE default page template. It seems you don’t understand how WordPress’ templates are working.
That’s possible or it could simply be I’m misunderstanding you. Can you clarify what you mean by this in respect to a default theme such as Twenty Twelve?
Hi Nini. Unfortunately the forum has a bad habit of stripping out bits and pieces of code – would you be able to share that as a Gist or using Pastebin (and drop the link in here)? Thanks – and sorry for the inconvenience.
Surbma: I just want you to know that we’re taking this feedback seriously and are actively discussing it – and I’ll get back to you with a more substantive reply as quickly as I can.
Hi Nini – it looks like your override for month view is in the correct place, so I’m not sure why that isn’t working.
For the mini-calendar widget you will need to move it from …/pro/widgets/ to just …/widgets/ (I appreciate that isn’t too clear in the Themer’s Guide and we’re just discussing that within the team).
Re the month view, can you share what’s currently in the override and let me know if it is still in place? Perhaps you could also change (from within the month/single-event.php template):
<h3 class="tribe-events-month-event-title summary">To:
<h3 class="tribe-events-month-event-title summary test">And then I could inspect to see if that extra .test class is present in the output.
OK, fellow team member Chris was able to confirm the problem and this does seem to be a valid bug – we’ll definitely aim to fix it as quickly as possible. In the meantime you may wish to turn off the display of errors and perhaps avoid using that particular link if it causes operational issues (beyond the display of the error itself).
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Yes it is indeed a simple string replacement – offered up in the hopes of giving you a quick fix (in case you were facing CSS issues, where a rule wasn’t being observed due to the missing .archive class).
If that doesn’t meet your needs I’m sorry.
Most aspects of Genesis can be turned on and off using filters and actions, however, so perhaps a better way forward would be for you to take the time to figure out how to do that – ie, turn off the display of post-meta sections – then come to us for advice on detecting a given scenario, such as if the current request is for an events-related archive.
Genesis is certainly a popular theme framework – and we do plan to produce resources aimed at guiding people through integration – but even so, it is just one of quite a number of theme frameworks that might be described as popular and we can’t realistically offer expert advice for them all. Added to which we have a lot of people to support and there is naturally a limit to the extent of support on offer.
All in all, I’m sorry we haven’t met your expectations – we’d definitely be happy to offer you a refund so you can perhaps invest in a different plugin (or even simply as a gesture of good will). If you want to take us up on that please do email us at pro (at) tri (dot) be and include a link to this thread.
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