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Howdy Brady,
I would love to help you with this.
Are you using Facebook to register who is coming to your site? Is this what you are looking for: Linking an imported event back to Facebook ?
Cheers!
– Brook
Howdy Svend Nyborg,
I would love to help you with this. It sounds to me like you have a set of WP Posts with their own categories, and each of those has an identically named event category with posts in it. On your Post pages you are hoping to a show a widget that will dynamically pull in all event categories with the same name. Is that correct?
If so then this would be very doable with Events Calendar Pro and a little bit of PHP coding. As Lasse said the Advanced List Widget could be used here. It has the ability to show only posts from a given categories. It also has a shortcode version that I think might be even more useful. That’s because you could do something like this with great ease:
<?php do_shortcode('[tribe_events_list category="'.$name_of_page_category.'"]');?>And that would show any upcoming events that are in a category matching $name_of_page_category . Again though, it will require some PHP experience to get this all working and to make sure $name_of_page_category contains the date you need.
Does that all make sense? Will that work for you? Please let me know.
Thanks for helping out Lasse! Great idea with the Adv List widget.
Cheers!
– Brook
Howdy Jo,
I would love to help you with this. It is not yet possible to manually enter attendee info. However we do have a feature request for this that has been on our “Hot” list for a few weeks, which means it is getting votes far more quicker than most with only 16 supporters. Thus is is a lot higher on our radar than most feature requests with similar vote counts.
I wish I had better news on that front. Please let me know if you have any more questions. Cheers!
– Brook
Howdy Benjamin,
I would love to help you with this. This is totally doable with a simple theme override.
Have you ever created a theme override before? If not checkout our Themer’s Guide for a nice walkthrough. With that knowledge in hand create an override for public_html/wp-content/plugins/event-tickets/src/views/tickets/email.php . On around line 277 you will see:
$start_date = tribe_get_start_date( $event, true )Replace that with this:
$start_date = tribe_events_event_schedule_details( $event );And you’re done! That will show the full event details instead of just the start date. Did that do what you wanted?
Cheers!
– Brook
I am very happy you got a solution. It was not an inconvenience at all! I just wish I could help more with code that I am unfamiliar with. It would save you a lot of hassle and me a lot of explaining.
Thank you for getting back Macie. If you ever have any more questions about The Events Calendar please don’t hesitate to reach out.
Cheers!
– Brook
Howdy Nick,
We have done many hundreds of bugfixes since version 3.5 including a few relating to the datepicker format. I remember a while back we fixed this exact problem where the datepicker settings were not affecting Community. The latest versions are all 4.1.x.
Are you in a spot where you can update? Unfortunately you probably need to update everything to get stuff working as expected. If you don’t need Pro anymore you might disable it ASAP. If you still need it I would upgrade. Running mismatched versions of the plugins, such as 3.5 Pro and 4.0 of the others will often lead to errors and sometimes even data corruption.
Does upgrading get this working?
Cheers!
– Brook
In this case, you should be able to advise a breadcrumb plugin I could use on my website ? Of course fully compatible with your recurring events ?
I do not know of one. Every bread crumb I have ever used in WordPress has flaws like this. There is a reason why WordPress itself does not provide breadcrumbs, and why breadcrumbs are relatively rare in the WordPress ecosystem. WordPress is not hierarchial, and breadcrumbs require hierarchy. With how WordPress is designed breadcrumbs will often break or behave oddly. Your example is a classic case of this problem.
“The Events calendar uses a custom post type for their events. Depending on how they have structured their custom post types (the taxonomy structure they are using) this could have an effect on the breadcrumbs.”
Basically what they are telling you is that Event Categories can show up in the breadcrumb. But of course your probably already knew that.
Our plugin uses bog-standard WP Taxonomies (categories). The breadcrumb plugin is clearly designed to support taxonomies or else you would not be seeing them in it.
Why the recurring event IS PREFIXED with “tata” when the non-recurring one IS NOT ?
That’s a great question. One I too am wondering. When designing the breadcrumb the theme author faced the following dilemma, same as any other breadcrumb will when trying to impose hierarchy on WordPress:
- This post has multiple categories, should I:
- Display all of them as parents?
- Display a random one?
- Not display the category at all?
- This post is a child of another post and a category. Should I:
- Show the parent?
- Show a random category?
- Nothing at all?
There are a million different ways to handle all of these problems, I only showed a few. In the case of your first post it appears they chose to show a random category. In the case of your recurring event, which has a parent post, it appears they chose to show nothing at all. These are all decisions made within the breadcrumbs code. In order to change these decisions the breadcrumb’s code will need to be modified.
Does that help clarify things for you?
- Brook
Hello again!
I just wanted to followup with you and let you know we were able to find some areas of the Minical where the performance could be improved. If everything I found pans out it will be much faster once the modifications are made!
Tentatively our improvements are scheduled for version 4.2 of the plugin suite. If you are interested in reenabling the widget at some point keep an eye on the changelogs for any mention of improving the Minicals speed or performance.
Thanks for bringing this to our attention! It’s been a few months since our last performance audit, so its great to catch this one early (before the next audit). Cheers!
– Brook
Howdy Tim,
Thanks for lending a listening ear. I well know graphs like that can look damning at first glance. The first time I saw one a couple years back it inspired me to really investigate what was going on.
Events List Widget Twice… do you mean in the Events Dropdown where there is a menu for Events & Courses and also one for Next Event?
Exactly. As you suspected I was recommending removing one or both of these to speed up page loads a little bit.
P3 just measures what it says is plugin load speed for all plugins, it is not in any way focussed on or run linked to a certain page, and in the past, for example it said Jetpack was v slow, I stopped using it and experienced faster load speeds so I trust it is saying something worthwhile.
Thanks for the reminder here. It has been a while since I used P3. Anymore I prefer the more granular ones like Query Monitor (which include more detail for devs), so it has been a while since I’ve fired up P3.
Further something I remembered is that the P3 profiler will sometimes include more event pages in its test than other ones. If you want to do a fair test of The Events Calendar versus the other ones I would disable both widgets temporarily, then do a manual scan with the profiler. Try visiting each page in your main menu. It is quite likely you will see a more even breakdown of the plugins actual performance in there. To be up front the calendar might still be a teeny bit high.
If you are interested in the technical specifics: we are caught between a rock and a hard place when it comes to doing things the “WordPress way” – as people often say. The WordPress way is to store everything, even dates, as post_meta values. This makes your plugin broadly compatible in the WordPress ecosystem, with other plugins like Gravity Forms being able to handle our dates natively. But it also makes things insanely slow. Since dates are not stored as dates, but rather as post_meta (longtext) it makes every query to them many times more expensive. We have often considered creating our own tables within the database so that dates can be dates and things can be speedy, but such a notion is highly controversial and many folks complain when other plugins have done similar stuff. So every time we talk about this easy and major performance enhancement we circle around this discussion. So far we have decided that instead lets do everything else we can to make the plugin fast, which includes regular performance audits of every other area. Worth mentioning I do not know of any WP Calendar plugin that has not made similar choices and thus they all run kinda slow in my tests. Sometimes the WordPress way is not the performant way.
Interesting re ‘What You Say though’ … do you on that page see obvious things I can change in the background that would speed it up? (I know this is not your remit.. just asking since you said it interests you!)
I was surprised by this as well. I was wondering if maybe it relates to the youtube videos. Depending upon how they’re embedded the server might be querying YouTube itself, waiting for YouTube to respond, and then finally serving them. I don’t know, just a guess based on the fact that at a glance I did not notice the embeds on other pages.
Please do let me know if you have any more questions or concerns. Thanks Tim!
- Brook
Oh I’m sorry I did misunderstand you. But my answer will be much the same. I am not exactly sure how your breadcrumb works. Is it a walker? Does it exhibit similar problems for other post types with similar category structure? These questions will be for the author of your theme. Fortunately they will probably be quite accustomed to questions such as yours, because our plugin is mostly just a standard WordPress Custom Post Type. So any other Custom Post Type will likely also exhibit similar symptoms and people like you will have wanted to modify it.
I am sorry, I really do wish I could be of more help here. I do not like sending people away as personally when that happens to me its no fun. But we are just not the spot for helping with this. Breadcrumbs like this are not actually a part of WordPress, they are a wholly custom thing built by your theme. Thus having never even seen the code that powers this, I really can’t help you modify it.
Please let me know if you have any more questions for me. Cheers!
– Brook
Oh I’m sorry, for a split second I was forgetting how tribe_get_recurrence_start_dates() works.
So what I would do is convert it to a proper PHP date using strtotime() . Then output it in any format using date() . Like this:
$format = 'Y-m-d D'; $lavoro = tribe_get_recurrence_start_dates( $eventid ); echo date( $format, strtotime( $lavoro[0] ) ); $len = sizeof($lavoro); echo ' / '. date( $format, strtotime( $lavoro[$len-1] ) );As mentioned in my previous post you might need to look into PHP date formats to find exactly the one you want. Would that work?
- Brook
Howdy Gary,
I would love to help you with this.
It sounds like your site is probably throwing an error but not set to display them publicly. Typically the page will either be a blank white or it will stop loading half way through. Could you set WP_DEBUG to true in your config file? More detailed instructions are in that link. From there try loading this page again, does it show an error message with Pro active? What’s the message?
Also 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.
Cheers!
– Brook
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