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Howdy again runekjensen,
It looks like both of those are defined within tribe-events-theme.min.css.
It is quite true that we do not cover finding CSS styles in our themer’s guide. The guide, and our support, is geared towards those who completely understand the fundamentals of web design; including things like using your browser’s inspector (or other favored tool) to find elements, identify their classes, and their parents. Since this is something most designers will do many times on each site (easily hundreds on some sites), understanding that aspect of web design is a thoroughly necessary requisite to following our themer’s guide.
Personally I generally use Chrome’s inspector in instances like this. I would right click on the elements, click Inspect Element, double check that It selected the right one, then examine the styles pane to see what rules are applying to the style. You may have noticed in that last post I simple copied/pasted existing styles, but add body before each set of selectors. That added a an extra level specificity so that my my style overrided existing ones. Then I changed the colors, and removed the extra stuff I did not need. This is just one technique, there are plenty of them out there and so you might prefer a different one. Here is some documentation/tutorials to elaborate a bit more on the tools I used:
https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/docs/dom-and-styles
https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/docs/elements
If that last paragraph or the links are looking like Greek to you, then if is probably a good idea to hire a developer who can make these sorts of changes for you. I hope you understand.
Does that all make sense? If you are interested in hiring a developer, we know some good ones. You can email [email protected] and request a list. They should know all of the necessary stuff to perform customizations.
– Brook
Howdy ohlmanngroup,
It looks like that helped a lot. By my count we cut the plugin load time by 470x! That’s a big improvement in my book, it’s down to .06 seconds now.
The only real requirement out of the norm is that we do run some pretty big select statements. The gist you used simply optimizes SQL to run those. If you need to know more details it really depends on your environment. The plugin you are running will give you a good idea of the amount of queries WordPress is running and some other numbers that might be helpful to your IT department, but those are all site dependent so you would have to collect those. WordPress does tend to run a pretty high amount of queries, and her API basically encourages plugins to do the same. It is a rather powerful API, but optimized for speed it is not. That is why you see so many WP sites run caching plugins.
Does that all make sense? Any other questions? Thanks!
– Brook
Thanks for the link. I see you have been able to get it working again. Would you mind sharing what the conflict was?
I am noticing some strange things about your the Hustle theme. For instance, it sets the img element to have a max-width of 100% in a few places. This is known to conflict with Google Maps for instance, and many other common applications as well. Basically what it boils down to is not good practice. I believe it might also be causing some Javascript errors in the console, and some minor styling oddities. If in the future you have an issue like this, my first suspect would be that your parent theme is conflicting with one or more of the plugins, possible even one of the Events ones. A good way to check if it is the theme is by disabling it and seeing if the problem goes away.
Were you able to fix this? Is there anything I can do to help? Thanks again. I love looking at your site, it helps me brush up on my limited Hebrew.
– Brook
Howdy Art,
You are quite welcome. And yes, you definitely can. That is the bit you should remove from the code you copied out of tribe_events_single_event_meta(). As luck you would have it I have a snippet that does just this. You see on line 93 where the filter tribe_events_single_event_the_meta_addon is commented out? That’s how you remove it. This snippet is the entire single-events.php file. If you have made any customizations to your own, then you will have to either copy the bits of code from this file that you need, or copy this entire file and redo your changes.
Does that work and make sense? Please let me know!
– Brook
Howdy ninapostans,
I would be glad to assist you with where to put this. Inside your theme’s CSS file is the best place. It is possible that your theme adjusts some aspects of widgets, like maybe they have different classes, or use <h2>s instead of <h4>s. Many themes do. As I said that code is specific to my own theme (though sometimes it transfers fine).
However, using the technique I described above, you should be able to create a new rule specific to your own theme. Using something like Chrome’s inspector you can find out more about the element you want to style, and the parent/container elements. Using that info you can create rules. This does take a bit of practice and knowledge though. If you are not specific enough, you might find your CSS rule targets more than just the widget, for instance.
I can not find the events list widget on your site, so I can not even get you an example specific to your theme. But, really that is outside of our scope of support anyways. You say that you do not have the budget to hire a developer, and I completely understand that. But, you must understand we do not have the budget to hire a developer for you, either. As stated in our scope of support when it comes to customizations like this we would be glad to “point you in the right direction”. But, it is up to you to head in that direction. And certainly you would have to have the knowhow to actually make it to that destination once you’ve been pointed there.
I really really hope you understand. Please let me know if you have questions, or need me to point something else out. Cheers!
– Brook
Howdy Art,
You are spot on, that’s the file. We have so many single-event.php files it can get a bit confusing, at times even for one of us. Hence why the incorrect one was accidentally recommended.
On line 63, notice the call to tribe_events_single_event_meta(). That’s what shows the entire box of meta info. If you want to selectively display meta info then replace that line with individual calls. If you look inside of the function linked above, you will see the HTML and functions it uses to output the meta box. Simple copy and paste it, then remove the bits you don’t want.
Now for adding your custom meta field elsewhere. That can be accomplished with the following code snippet
tribe_get_meta('tribe_event_custom_meta')
That will output the Custom field and its title in a dt/dd pair. You can insert it anywhere you want in your template.Is that all making sense? Are you now able to make the change? Please let me know if we can be of further assistance. Julie asked me to assist since custom themes are a bit more my area. Thanks!
– Brook
I just installed the demo version of that plugin on my test site. I am able to access the events pages without 404s. I will keep the plugin installed though to see if a conflict happens in time. Are there any settings or features you recently changed on The Events plugins or on the Video Gallery one? Maybe you changed a setting or did something just before the 404s started happening. If you can think of anything let me know and I will test it on my site as well. Thanks!
I see your site is currently working again. It looks like you have left the video gallery plugin disabled. If you are able to leave it disabled for a while, I would be interested to see if that completely fixes your problem.
– Brook
Good call on posting links to your events, definitely helped me troubleshoot. When you add/edit a Facebook event on Facebook, as you type in location’s name or address it starts searching for that place. If you do not click on one of the places in the popup searchbox, then Facebook never populates its internal address field, it just uses what you typed in as the title.
Ultimately, this is a limitation of Facebook’s API, not something we can fix. If you are not able to find the place you are looking for in the “where” popup search box on Facebook and thus click on it, then there will be no address available for our plugin to import. You will have to manually copy that data into the venue details.
I wish I had better news. Does that make sense? Please let me know. Thanks!
– Brook
Thanks for doing that. I notice in your system info, it is listing the theme Themerush. Had you already switched from the 2012 theme back to Themerush when you copied this info?
With all the plugins disabled and the default 2012 theme, can you try flushing permalinks? This can be accomplished by going to WP Admin > Settings > Permalinks and clicking “Save”. Before enabling any plugins or your theme, can you try retesting and see if clicking on an event takes you a 404.
If that does not work, can you try disabling permalinks temporarily? To do that, in Settings > Permalinks, try changing the Common Settings option to Default. Did that fix it?
I was actually hoping to get your system info from before you disabled anything or changed themes. After you have reenabled all of your plugins and default theme, would you mind grabbing your system info again and pasting it here?
Thanks!
– Brook
Howdy itpromotion,
I am seeing that issue on your site as well. For starters, would you mind going to your WP Admin > Events > Settings, and clicking the “Help” tab. Scroll down to the System Information heading. Would you mind copying and pasting everything in the system info box here. For your privacy, I would check the box “Set as private reply” when posting that info here.
Next, if your revert to the default 2012 theme, does the issue persist? What about if you disable all of your plugins except The Events Calendar and Events Calendar Pro? If disabling the plugins and using the default theme fixes it, please try reenabling one at a time and testing in between each to see if the issue crops up. If it does once you enable something, please make note of what that is and post it here. If you can, try running run your forum for a while without that plugin and see if it fixes the issue. That will help us narrow it down to a conflict with a given plugin, and maybe we can dive in a bit further for a fix.
Does that all make sense? Please let me know if you have questions. Want to help you get this resolved quickly if at all possible.
– Brook
Howdy crack00r,
I can not replicate this bug. When I import an event, my venue correctly populates with data from Facebook. Perhaps the venues your are importing do not have their address data in the right field on Facebook, and thus are not imported properly. Could you try importing this event from August of 2013? When I import it the City/State/Zip specified on Facebook are all imported into the Rio Hotel venue as seen here.
Please let me know what happens. Thanks!
– Brook
Howdy Ivan,
That could be a great solution to your problem of patternless similar events. You can definitely import from a CSV by following this tutorial. If you need some support for importing from a CSV, I would strongly recommend you get an active Pro license.
Does that make sense? Let me know if you have any other questions about product capabilities. Thanks!
– Brook
They are definitely similar, but we do try and provide a unique class for each. For instance the class ‘tribe-events-meta-group-other’ will only apply to the other box. But, it looks like you got it working as you want. Very glad to hear that!
Thank you Patti for helping out.
I am closing this topic since you got it working. Thanks for posting, finleydesign.
– Brook
