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You’re welcome! Thanks for sharing the idea on there. Your stackoverflow link would definitely help with some of the security concerns. We’ll keep an eye on that topic, it’s already getting extra votes.
Regarding the band management: has the development already started or is it still under review?
We still have a few even more popular ideas we are tackling first before we can focus on truly solving band management. We added the ability to select multiple organizers already. But this would just be the first step towards a solution. Currently you could use a third party additional fields plugin tied in with extra organizers to accomplish much of what you were asking for, albeit in a round-about way.
Thanks again! Let me know if you have any more question.
Cheers!
– Brook
I appreciate the clarification!
I can definitely understand the desire to now want to write modifications to WordPress plugins. I try to limit the amount I make on my sites to the bare minimum. The fewer the easier it is to maintain.
We often deliberate whether to add UIs for customizing _____ minor feature of the plugin. And one thing that has weight in these discussions is the question “is this bloat?” Everybody loves more features in a plugin, yet everyone hates a bloated plugin. It’s a paradox all plugins must walk a line between. To be up front, we have almost never seen requests to make Related Posts have more settings. The extreme majority of people are happy with how it works out of the box. But if that ever changes, we would certainly be interested in making it a setting.
When we can’t make something a setting in the backend due to bloat concerns, we do try to make it incredibly easy to customize. This snippet for instance can be put in your theme’s functions.php file and it will limit related posts to only showing events within two months of the event’s date.
https://gist.github.com/elimn/1e6797dd1a5d8ee666c5
Does that all make sense? Would that snippet work for you?
Cheers!
– Brook
Howdy Sonke,
Thanks for providing all of the details. Upon further investigation we were able to find a bug in our code related to this. We are set to patch it very soon, possible as soon as Monday in a 3.12.2 release.
I have added your topic to our internal tracker, you should be notified when the fix is ready for release.
Please let us know if you have any questions. Cheers!
– BrookHowdy Linda,
I am sorry to hear that it’s not loading properly for you. I would love to help you figure this out.
Sometimes this arises because of a caching issue. If you have a caching system in place it will cache the old version of the page, yet sometimes it doesn’t update when there is a new version containing the new events. Do you have any caches on your server such as plugins? Can you try disabling them and retesting.
Cheers!
– Brook
Howdy Oran,
That’s a good question. Currently events have no default featured image, not from the organizer or the venue.
A year and a half ago someone suggested this feature, but unfortunately it has seen little user demand since. If you would like to see that option please vote on it (click here).
That said it would be very possible to write a customization which sets a default featured image. You could override the WP filter ‘tribe_event_featured_image’ with a custom image of your own choosing. Or using a theme override could just put the HTML for your image inside the actual template (checkout our Themer’s Guide for details on that if you’re interested). Both of these will require some WP theming knowhow though.
Does that answer your question? Please let me know. Cheers!
– Brook
Howdy Ki,
Thanks for sharing. That’s a great tip! Getting the official address can help in some areas and is often a good idea for Google’s Geolocator, but it’s less helpful in outdoor areas or some foreign lands with no official address and only lat/long coordinates.
To clarify geolocation is included in both The Events Calendar and Events Calendar Pro. Geolocation is looking up the Lat/Long coordinates based on the address you typed in. In both plugins we do a geolocation lookup for the address and store the coordinates in your DB. The only thing exclusive to Pro is the ability to override Google’s returned coordinates with custom lat/long ones of your own choosing. This is helpful in areas where Google maps is inaccurate and does not return the correct marker automatically.
Events can be filtered based on a users location. Events Calendar Pro allows you to search for events near any given location. So a user can search their area, or an area they are interested in traveling to, and see a map marker for each event nearby that location and a list of said events. If you wanted the calendar to automatically search nearby events for the users that is somewhat possible. You could gecode their IP, which is notoriously inaccurate, but even still some large website like Google rely on this. From there you have a guess at the users location, and you could automatically will that location as a location search when they visit the page. This would be a small customization to the Pro addon.
Does that answer all of your questions? Do you have anything else I could help with?
Cheers!
– Brook
I’d be happy to do my best there. I added your name and email to the ticket where all of the development work is being tracked, and requested they send you an email when the ticket is completed. We don’t really have a system in place to announce this stuff outside of our typical newsletter emails. So I am a little afeared that my note to email you will get forgotten once its ready. Have you signed up for our newsletter? If not, do you want me to sign you up? That way we can be sure you’re notified. 🙂
Cheers!
– Brook
Howdy Allison,
Thank your for taking the to reach out about a possible conflict. I really appreciate it.
I just fired up Enfold 3.3 alongside Events Calendar Pro 3.12, and ran the default slider that comes with Enfold’s LayerSlider WP [layerslider id=”1″]. The slider is called “Enfold – most beautiful theme ever”. It’s working perfectly alongside The Events Calendar. The sliders are going back and forth, and no JS errors or issues.
What specifically happens to your page when the slider stops working? Do you have a link to the page so I can see the problem in action? Or is your dev site not online?
Cheers!
– Brook
Howdy Papertower,
I really appreciate you taking the time to document this and get back to us. I just tried testing this myself in a variety of environments. I was 99% sure I had tried this numerous times already, but just to be completely sure I wanted to try again. I input a future date for the start/end times in a new event. I input a url such as “http://example.com/” into the Event Website field. There was no bug. On the Single Event page the dates were all correct, showing the event dates as one month in the future.
I have done my best to replicate your server environment and settings. But, I am not able to reproduce this, nor have I have seen any other bug reports like this. Are you doing anything else with this event? Are they recurring events perhaps? Do you have an example I could investigate and see if I have anymore ideas on how to try and reproduce it?
Typically when an issue can’t be reproduced it’s not bug in our code. Not to say that we aren’t still interested in finding a fix for it. First I want to do my college best to try and reproduce it, then we can see if there is anything we’ve missed.
Cheers!
– Brook
Howdy Jennifer,
Thanks for reaching out and taking the time to share your feedback. I want to first address your concern that we don’t test enough. I appreciate your candor and will definitely keep that in mind. I do want to mention that we do third party usability tests, in addition to employing UX experts and strategists. We definitely strive to build user friendly products.
It seems like the crux of your issue might be a slight misunderstanding of how related events works. It displays upcoming events from the same category, not the same venue. Many of our users have venues which host a large variety of events, all unrelated. So for them it does not make sense at all to show all events from the same venue as “related”.
That said there are many unique use cases like yours. And so we do our best to make our calendar extremely easy to customize so that each use case can be addressed. You evidently want to change the related posts query to show upcoming events from the same venue, instead of upcoming events from the same category. Perhaps you also wish to limit the query to events within a certain timeframe, say within a month of the current event. That is completely possible and couldn’t be easier if you are a WP customizer. A standard WP Query powers the related events, and we run the query args through the filter ‘tribe_related_posts_args’. The function which applies that filter can be found here: /events-calendar-pro/src/functions/template-tags/general.php:668 So you could simple strip the category/taxonomy, and alter the query to do a post meta check for events which share the same venue, and whose start date is within your desired timeframe.
Does that all make sense? Do you have any more feedback? Please let us know.
Cheers!
– Brook
Howdy Shah,
Thanks for reaching out. I am happy to hear you are in touch with Barry. Currently his plugin just does not support adding that field to Community Events, nor is there any known workaround at the moment. It’s possible he might be interested in adding the RSVP support Community Events as well. But, to be honest I doubt that he will. Reason being: we are nearing completion on a full RSVP solution that will really expand and improve upon Barry’s work, and he has been helping with that.
Alongside the RSVP feature we are building the “tickets meta” feature, which will allow you to add fields for collecting information about each ticketholder. Both of these features will enter beta soon, and you would be welcome to test them out if you’re interested. You can sign up here (click me).
In short, I don’t think there is a solution to your RSVP issue available right now. But we will be releasing one very soon alongside the ability to collect attendee info. Does that answer your questions?
Cheers!
– Brook
Howdy Robyn,
Some folks have tried using WooCommerce plugins like this one to add checkout fields for tickets. From what I have heard one or two have found it met their needs. Further Eventbrite Tickets already offers very similar features, especially for registration type events. You might check both of those out.
Definitely let me know if you have any more questions.
– Brook
Howdy Oliver,
It’s nice to see you again. That’s a good question, one we asked our dev team a while back.
There are two major reasons why the WP Media Uploader, that you see on the backend, is not available in the Community form:
a) Security. The Media Uploader UI “doesn’t really provide much room for filtering capabilities”. Basically it will end up revealing too much about your site’s private files to random users.
b) The media uploader depends so much on admin JS, templates, etc. It is only ever meant to be loaded on the backend.
There has been some interest in us building our own version of the Media Uploader for the front-end community form, but that will represent a sizeable investment in time. We need to see a decent amount of user demand for it to make sense to invest all of that time.
Would you mind suggesting this as a feature on UserVoice so we can gaude demand for it? I know you have made some great suggestions in the past that are proving popular. Your Band Manager for instance is something we have repeatedly noticed and are looking into. We are very interested in implementing a more flexible organizer system that allows you to feature the groups responsible for the event. So whether it’s a Band, a Speaker, or an Organizer you could add attach one or more of them to an event and reuse them plus see all the other events they are attached to. The goal of this would be to satisfy your feature request, and some other less popular ones that are equally specific to Artists, Guest Speakers, etc.
Let me know if you have any question. Cheers!
– Brook
