[Brook]

Howdy Tom,

I am happy you reached out with your questions. I am happy to say yes to both, they are both quite possible.

1. Checkout this free addon: The Events Calendar Category Colors
2. Most definitely. That is a built-in feature. Clicking on any event category will take you to a list of all events in that category.

Does that all make sense? Please let us know.

Cheers!

– Brook

[Brook]

Howdy Dirk,

I could definitely help you with at least some of those.

I want to show the page title h2
<h2 class=”tribe-events-page-title”>Veranstaltungen für die Woche vom August 24, 2015</h2>. This is currently hidden

The hidden title is a customization your theme has made. You just have to undo it either by deleting the title hiding CSS rule from your theme, or adding a CSS rule to anyone of your theme’s CSS files like this:

body .tribe-events-page-title {
display: block;
}

Second problem: I want to remove the scroll bar to show all events of the day without scrolling.

That’s totally possible. I can see how that would work better, especially on mobile. You will need to do a theme override by following our Themer’s Guide. Once you’ve familiarized yourself with that, override this file: /events-calendar-pro/src/views/pro/week/loop-grid-hourly.php Remove tribe-scroller from this line (line 18):

<div class="tribe-week-grid-wrapper tribe-scroller">

Like this:

<div class="tribe-week-grid-wrapper">

Then you’d need to add some CSS to any of your theme’s CSS files that allows the full height to be visible with no scroll bar:

body .tribe-week-grid-wrapper {
overflow : visible;
height : auto;
}

Third problem: I want to remove the line for all-day events (Ganztägig).

You can definitely hide lines, again by modifying the CSS. It looks another customization your theme has made has caused a vertical line to go through ä in Ganztägig. Is that the line you wish to hide? If not, which one?

Cheers!

– Brook

 

[Brook]

Howdy again Mike,

I appreciate the detailed elaboration.

The priority on my hook, 9999, is what I had it at before. I wondered if by “51 or greater” you meant between 0-50 (since WP hooks get processed earlier the lower the number). However, it doesn’t seem to matter what the priority is, I’ve tried it all the way down to 0.

I was thinking any priority more than 50, such as 51-99. I personally don’t use priorities higher than that, as odd things have happened to me. In fact for this snippet it was not quite working right for me until I switched to a 99 priority, but that was among a couple of other changes.

This snippet is working for me. Recurring events will only show one time on the first page, and not again on subsequenty pages, unless date is set. You should be able to replace my variables with your constants: http://pastebin.com/kKV0AK0k

Does that new code work for you?

Cheers!

– Brook

[Brook]

Howdy Ramon,

Thank you for taking the time to reach out. I would love to help you figure out a solution.

It’s hard to say why our widget is blank. It could be that their listing query is interfering with subsequent queries on the page, or any number of other things. I would be interested in taking a little time to investigate with a debugger, but to do that I would need a copy of the theme. Would you be interested in emailing us the zipped copy of the theme to support at this website URL? Could you reference this topic and mention that the theme is for Brook. If you can do that I might be able to help you a bit further, otherwise I just don’t have enough information to go on 🙁 .

Cheers!
– Brook

[Brook]

This is logged for a developer to look at. This takes a little bit of time, as their schedule is not always as open as support folks like myself. Please don’t take the delay to mean we’re not interested in the bug report!

In the mean time, can you manually import those two events?

Thanks again!

– Brook

[Brook]

That is a good find. Looks very similar to your goals.

I will keep this support topic opened for now. It sounds like you still need to try implementing their suggestions. If there is anything you need from us along the way, holler.

Cheers!

– Brook

[Brook]

Howdy Jim,

I would love to help you figure out a solution. Our calendar can not import from RSS feeds. RSS are not really meant for events, and so there is no reliable way to parse the information contained int hem on a global scale.

However, for a specific website like your Chamber you might be able to craft a solution. You might be able to use an RSS to CSV converter to convert all of the data to a CSV file, then try importing that via our calendar’s CSV importer. You would at least get much of the data pulled in automatically. You might still need to manually add an event end date and such, but that’s better than having to add everything manually! You can test all of this out with our free “Core plugin”: The Events Calendar. So you might give that a whirl and see if it does what you need.

Does that all make sense? Will that work for you? Please let us know.

Cheers!

– Brook

[Brook]

Howdy xxita,

I would love to help you with that.

It looks like you are running the Enfold theme. The tab page/event list here looks like it is being generated by your theme, by Enfold: http://stage21.ramsau.com/abenteuerland/langlaufen/#tab-id-4

Because of that I am not personally familiar with the Enfold template. I do not actually know where it is located or how best to modify it. 🙁 But, the template author will: http://www.kriesi.at/support/forum/enfold/ If you go there and open a topic, they should be able to help you modify that template.

If I can be of further assistance please let me know. I wish I was more familiar with Enfold so I could personally answer some of your current questions. We would like to work closer with them in the future and do more testing with their theme. But, right now their forums are the only good place to get support for making modification like this to their theme.

Cheers!

– Brook

[Brook]

For sure! I am sorry for the delayed response.

I mistakenly though you knew how to add a WP tagging UI, you were just wondering where to put it and how to make it required. You said you are not a developer though, which probably means this sort of customization is going to be beyond the scope of your abilities. But just in case I will outline what needs to happen, and a little background info on how this works. Perhaps if you have a developer you can pass this along to him and he can write the actual code for you?

Our Community plugin handles the input of $_POST[‘tax_input’] exactly as WordPress does, it runs it through wp_set_post_terms(). So in order to add a tag all you need to do is submit it just like WP does on the back end, you populate $_POST[‘tax_input’][‘post_tag’] with an array of tags. Our plugin already populates $_POST[‘tax_input’][‘tribe_events_cat’] with the list of categories, and then as I said runs the entire $_POST[‘tax_input’] through wp_set_post_terms(). So getting the data saved should be relatively easy, it doesn’t look like you will even need to added any rules to the validator or scrubber to get this working.

So knowing that this could be somewhat easy. You could embed a customized version of the backend tagging UI on the frontend community form using a theme override as outlined at the outset. Once it’s there, it should actually list tags and allow people to choose just as they do on the backend, you just need to pull it out from the backend and get it working on its own. Then upon submission its data will be inserted with the rest of the taxonomy data.

To mark it required, you can follow that tutorial I linked at the outset and check if $_POST[‘tax_input’][‘post_tag’] is empty, thus making it a required field.

I wish there was a way to walk a non-developer through all of the work that would need to go into this customization, but that could take days of training to prepare you with everything you would need to understand this, in addition to the hours it will take to write and test this customization. 🙁

Please let us know if that helps your developer. Or if you don’t currently have one, we can point you to a list of developers who are familiar with The Events Calendar. Or, if you want to officially suggest that we add tags to the Community Events plugin in a future version you can do that on UserVoice, then others could vote their support for it as well!

Does that make more sense now?

– Brook

[Brook]

I follow you now. Thanks for clarifying.

For reasons that are lost to history tribe_events_pre_get_posts does not apply to Ajax requests. :-/ This is something we are looking into fixing soon, along with some other tweaks to make modifying and targeting the WP Queries easier.

So, that’s probably the issue. You want to actually hook into pre_get_posts with a priority of 51 or greater. The reason for the high priority is because then the WP_Query  object will have some nice tribe variables defined, like the boolean $wp_query->tribe_is_event_query.

But I have once again dodged your question about whether there is any extra debugging info you could get, and whether that can be sent via Ajax to the browser. We do have some extra debugging info that gets enabled when you have defined the WP Constants WP_DEBUG and SCRIPT_DEBUG. But, these are not quite what you are looking for, and will not help you here. Most of our devs are all using a debugger like x-debug and an IDE for debugging info. It’s extremely useful for WP_Queries. We have not yet found a need for any more information than that provides. But, if you see an area where a debugger is not quite cutting it, please let us know. Even suggest it as a feature on UserVoice if you’re keen. We’d love to have that feedback. 🙂

Does that all make sense? Does the extra knowledge of tribe_events_pre_get_posts help you finalize your code?

Thanks for again for elaborating!

– Brook

[Brook]

Thanks Chris for getting back. Since we have been continuing this discussion via email I am going to archive this public thread. Cheers!

– Brookc

[Brook]

You’re very welcome! Those slip in all too easily. If you need any help tracking it down or resolving it, please let us know what the error is. Maybe a link to your page?

Cheers!

– Brook

[Brook]

I follow you now. That tutorial requires you to have access to your entire site’s folder structure, or at least the /wp-content/ directory. This means that you can not be using a simple tool like the WP Appearance editor, rather you must be using something like an FTP program to view your site’s file. If this sounds daunting or outside your comfort zone, it might be something you would prefer hiring someone to edit.

If you really do not want to hire someone (especially if this is the only modification to WordPress you want to make), then there is one way to do this with the Plugin editor. You could modify the The Events Calendar plugin, and then search for this file: /src/views/single-event.php . Then on line 58 make your change. But, keep in mind that you will need to make that change everytime you update the plugin. Which is why use of the Plugin Editor is usually not “good practice” in WordPress.

On that note, you could also use WordPress to resize your featured images. When you click on Set featured image, you see a list of your currently imported images to select from. When you click on one there is a little link to “Edit Image”. Editting an image allows you to set its size, crop it, and so forth. Simply changing its size to your desired size will also work. But this must be done on an image by image basis.

Would one of those options work?

Cheers!

– Brook

[Brook]

Howdy Mike,

For issues like that it is usually a plugin interfering with the PHP side. JS will usually show no errors. In this case I don’t think JS debugging will help you, which is probably why you’re not seeing much in the console.

Are you basically getting more events than you bargained for, or less? Could you describe what is missing or showing when you load a page via ajax?

I have seen issues like this before. On occasion it’s a legit bug in our plugin, hence my above questions. I would like to try reproducing it on a local install. But, more often than not it is a 3rd party plugin interfering with all requests to WP’ Ajax API. I’m not sure why it’s so common, but I have seen multiple plugins assume that all requests made to the WP Ajax API are for that specific plugin, and so they modify and thus interfere with every other plugin on the site that uses the API. The last time this happened we identified which plugin it was through a conflict test. (This guide walks you through how to test for a conflict, and then identify what is conflicting.) Then the user reached out to the plugin author with what they found, and the author almost immediately released a new version of the plugin that made them compatible with the rest of WP, our plugin included.

Please let me know about those questions, or if you need any clarification or elaboration on what I was talking about. Cheers!

– Brook

[Brook]

Howdy Chris,

I am happy you reached out via both methods as I’m worried you’re not getting our email. I just responded via email. I checked and we definitely received your email a few days back, and responded to it the same day. If for some reason you did not receive my response just now, are we getting clogged up in your spam filter? 🙁

Cheers!

– Brook

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