[Brook]

Awesome! I am glad to hear it works. We all have those moments where we kick ourselves thinking we should have thought of the solution sooner, myself definitely included.

By the way, if you have a minute or two, we would love it if you could write a few words about the plugin here. I hope the site development goes smooth.

– Brook

[Brook]

Howdy jamesdonegan,

Perhaps you are looking for the function tribe_get_event_website_url()? Would that work for what you need?

– Brook

[Brook]

Thank you Luis! That helps us diagnose this further. If we learn anything more about why this is happening I will let you know. For now everything looks normal.

When we designed the system it made sense to have the thread close when it was marked answered, unfortunately this has proven confusing to many of our users. It is something we are going to redesign ASAP.

Thanks again! – Brook

[Brook]

Well it looks like that snippet is probably not helping on your server, which it only will on some server configurations. That said at least the Pro Plugin is only adding 20-40ms of delay to the page load. That is not too shabby. To put that in perspective, on average there is a 10-15ms delay between the time you move your mouse and the cursor on the screen moves with it, yet to most people that delay is completely imperceptible. The delay that our Pro plugin adds is probably not even perceptible on your server.

Thanks for running the tests. It is good to have some hard data. I hope the site building goes smooth.

– Brook

[Brook]

Bill,

I just reopened this thread. If you want to try speeding up your site with the Pro addon enabled, I have an idea on how to do it. Would you mind doing each of the following then posting the results?

1) Running a test using the P3 plugin without Pro enabled.

2) Running a P3 test with Pro enabled

3) Running a P3 test with Pro enabled and this in your theme’s functions.php file?

If you do not want to bother I totally understand, but on many sites pasting the snippet from step 3 drastically speed up page load times. On one site I saw the P3 test speed improve over 60x!

– Brook

[Brook]

Thanks for you candor Bill. I will keep your recommendations in mind for sure for when the team is planning future design choices. Unfortunately I doubt that we will ever see a third or fourth option for this plugin, it will just be Pro or Free. I can certainly see how it would be beneficial to folks like yourself, but it is not a feature that we see requested often enough to justify the rather sizable investment in development time that it would take.

I see that you have put this as a feature request here. I just wanted to link to your request in case someone else comes across this topic, like the idea, and wants to voice their support for it.

Thanks for your feedback. Let us know if we can clarify any of the above, or assist you with something else.

– Brook

[Brook]

Howdy siriusly,

That is not the usual behavior for that widget. I just confirmed on my test site and it is behaving nothing like it is on yours. Would you mind running through some debugging steps for me to see if we can narrow down the source of this problem?

First, would you mind grabbing your system information and pasting it here? Make sure to use the ‘Set as private reply’ checkbox to protect your private information from the public. You can find the system info by going to WP Admin > Events > Settings, clicking on the “Help” tab, and scrolling down to the ‘System Information’ box. (Or by going to [yoursite]/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=tribe_events&page=tribe-events-calendar&tab=help) That will give me a lot of extra information to help diagnose the problem.

Next, could you try temporarily activating the default 2013 theme, and seeing if the issue persists?

If disabling the theme fixes it, we have narrowed the issue down to a theme conflict. Do you have any theme overrides for the Events Calendar? If so could you try disabling them by renaming your [themename]/tribe-events/ folder to ‘tribe-events-bak’. Did that fix it?

If the issue persists in the default 2013 theme, then we have a different set of debugging steps. Please keep the 2013 theme enabled, and also disable any plugins other than the ones from Modern Tribe to see if that fixes it. If it does, please try reenabling the plugins one at a time until the issue resurfaces. When it does resurface, can you let me know which plugin caused that to happen?

If you can answer the above questions it will greatly aid me in diagnosing what might be causing the widget to behave differently on your site. Thanks!

– Brook

[Brook]

Ahh yes, it looks like you theme is being most specific than the rule I created. I was able to get the following to work:

.tribe-events-venue-details .author.fn.org a {
font-size: 9em;
}

Obviously that is probably too large of a font size, but you can adjust the size as needed. Is it working now?

– Brook

[Brook]

Okay, I follow you. I did not yet notice that you have not purchased the current Pro version.

Well, if you need just one feature from Pro, and do not want all the other features and the accompanying (though I would say small) performance penalty, then you would really have to build that feature yourself. It might be worth it to you to purchase a copy of Pro, get the more powerful widget class and its files, then roll those into a plugin of your own making. I bet that would save a lot of time; probably significantly more than enough to justify the expense, considering how much most developers make per hour and how little the plugin costs comparatively.

I wish I had a better solution than that, but it is the only one I can think of. If you have ever developed a WordPress plugin then it is no doubt obvious to you why we can not just make a pick and choose setup where you can get just one feature without all of the others. Please let me know if I can be of further assistance. Cheers!

– Brook

[Brook]

Howdy again Noah,

If you scroll down to the bottom, just above the reply box, there should be a field to select a status option.

I am not aware of any free WordPress hosts that let you upload your own custom plugins and themes. You will need to purchase one. As far as I am aware they all come with support. You would have to consult with each host to find out what type of support they offer, and how much it covers. Most of them state their scope of support somewhere on their site, although you could contact them with specific questions.

– Brook

[Brook]

Ooops, I forgot to add your register_sidebar code looks stellar. Good work!

[Brook]

You are so very welcome!

Your script is for some reason not calling widget-calendar-full(.min).css, nor is it including widget-calendar.js. Is your theme even calling wp_head() anywhere? That is a pretty necessary bit of code for general WP plugin compatibility.

You should not actually need to manually insert/remove scripts, like jQuery. WordPress does this automatically using it’s enqueue_script system. Basically it will enqueue scripts and their dependents (which many plugins, ours included, depend upon jQuery) wherever WP is told it needs to. If it is not needed on a given page, it should not be included. If you have created your own version of the enqueue system it is pretty much guaranteed to conflict with plugins, ours included.

– Brook

[Brook]

You are welcome!

I am curious myself. You are not the only user to have that happen recently. Would you mind grabbing your system information and pasting it here? Make sure to use the ‘Set as private reply’ checkbox to protect your private information from the public. You can find the system info by going to WP Admin > Events > Settings, clicking on the “Help” tab, and scrolling down to the ‘System Information’ box. (Or by going to [yoursite]/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=tribe_events&page=tribe-events-calendar&tab=help) That will give me a lot of extra information to help diagnose the root cause. If you can that’s awesome, if not I totally understand. Cheers!

– Brook

[Brook]

Globemedia, I 100% agree. We actually just talked about this yesterday as a team, and it is definitely something we would like to approve. The horizontal feature was added a bit late in the Filterbar development, and thus not thought through as much. But, even we would like to see it improved in a fashion similar to what you are looking for.

I am not sure when that will happen as the next release is likely to be mostly bug fixes and not feature improvements. But, I would like to see it as soon as possible.

– Brook

[Brook]

Okay. Would you mind answering these two questions for me?

Are you seeing any of the Pro features missing elsewhere, like recurring events? Does the Pro Plugin show up as activated in WP Admin > Plugins?

You have probably already double checked if the “The Events Calendar PRO” plugin (In addition to the regular “The Events Calendar”) is already activated or not, but just in case you have not I need to know. Are they both installed an activated? That is basically my only suspect at the moment. What about other Pro feature like recurring events? Can you add recurring events right now, or is that functionality missing as well?

– Brook

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