[Geoff]

Thanks for following up and marking the answer, Jonathan! I’m glad this helped.

Please feel free to open a new thread if any other questions come up and we’d be happy to help. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

[Geoff]

Thanks for following up and marking the answer, Michelle! I’m glad this helped.

Please feel free to open a new thread if any other questions come up and we’d be happy to help. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

[Geoff]

Hey Stephen, thanks for following up!

I think I see benefits to both angles and it all comes down to differences on how the plugin is being used. For example, the plugin was designed for front-end event submission and management rather than venue management. That information can still be edited on the back end and the hidden fields help prevent duplicate submissions. At the same time, I can see benefit in possibly making that a configurable preference, or making venues themselves editable on the front end. Either way, it would be great for you to share more detailed thoughts on how that might work on the UserVoice forum. 🙂

The second part to this question is removing “available venues” in the dropdown, is that possible?

Did the suggestion to remove the select menu not work? That’s the route I would suggest since “Use New Venue” is going to be the default value anyway.

Cheers!
Geoff

[Geoff]

Hi Kenneth, thanks for getting in touch!

Good question. Yes, it is certainly possible to add a button to the calendar. It will take a little custom development, but I can at least help you get started.

• Make a copy of the bar.php file. It is located in /plugins/the-events-calendar/views/modules/bar.php.
• Make a new folder in your theme directory called tribe-events
• Make a new folder in that one called modules
• Drop the copied file in that last folder

Now that the file is in your theme, you can modify it to suit your needs. In this case, you would add a button in there using something like:

<a class="tribe-add-event-button" href="[YOUR-LINK]">Add an Event</a>

Then, you will need to add some CSS to your theme’s <i>style.css</i> file to style the link like the button:

#tribe-bar-form .tribe-add-event-button {
font-size: 13px;
line-height: 20px;
letter-spacing: 0;
width: 100%;
height: auto;
padding: 10px;
background: #666;
color: #fff;
border: none;
border-radius: 0;
-moz-border-radius: 0;
-webkit-border-radius: 0;
-webkit-appearance: button;
}

It will  take some massaging to get this format to work with your specific layout, but this should at least give you a good foundation to work with and make that happen. 🙂

Does this help? Please let me know.

Cheers!
Geoff

[Geoff]

Hello stephenschildbach, thanks for getting in touch!

Sorry to hear you’re disappointed with the Community Events interface here. We do try to accommodate as many preferences as possible and we clearly fell short in your eyes here.

I realize you see hiding the address fields as a bad coding choice, but it is something we implemented having tested other ideas and soliciting feedback. I’m afraid that for the time being, this is the default behavior and modifying it will take custom development, as you’ve already started and noted, and is beyond the level of support we can provide here in the forums.

One idea might be to remove the dropdown of available venues altogether. You will likely get duplicate submission this way, but the address lines will always be visible and available. You can do this by creating a template override (more on this in our Themer’s Guide) of the modules/venue.php file and removing the select menu.

If you have another idea of how the UI should work here, we’d love to hear about it and definitely welcome you to submit it on our UserVoice forum, which is where we take new feature requests and suggestions.

Let me know if you have any follow-up questions here and I’d be happy to help. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

[Geoff]

That sounds good, thanks Rene! Please keep me posted and we’ll see what we find. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

[Geoff]

Hey again, Adam. 🙂

Man, this is a good point. I can definitely see how working with a huge number of Facebook groups and events would cause a strain here.

In fact, I see this has come up in conversations on our team and we have a ticket to work on this because there isn’t a good solution for it at the moment. You can see this thread for more context:

Facebook Events Times Out

I’ve gone ahead and added this thread to the ticket so we can follow-up with you when we have more to share on that development. I honestly don’t have a timeframe for when we would hit that development, but it is on our radar.

Sorry I don’t have a solid solution for you here, but let me know if you have any other follow-up questions here and I’d be happy to help. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

[Geoff]

Hello Manju–thanks for reaching out and we’re stoked you’re considering our plugins for your project. 🙂

Good question. The WooTickets add-on will certainly allow you to create and sell tickets for the events you publish to the site.

Then, there is our Community Events add-on which will allow your vendors to submit events to the calendar from the front end of the site.

While those two add-ons are great for those sole purposes, they unfortunately do no work together. In other words, it is not currently possible for one of your vendors to submit an event to the calendar and create tickets for the event. It’s something we’re looking into but is currently not provided right out of the box.

Does this help answer your question? Please let me know. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

[Geoff]

Sweet, thanks for following up here! I’m right there with you–if it’s working then it’s working. 🙂

I’ll go ahead and close this thread but thanks again for reaching out and feel free to start a new thread if anything else pops up–we’d be happy to help.

Cheers!
Geoff

[Geoff]

Hello Adam, nice to see you again today!

First off, nice work on figuring out a solution to the timezone issue. Timezones can be so tricky with any site, so the fact that you got that resolved is awesome. 🙂

Yes, if you move the events that have already been imported to the trash and empty the trash, the Facebook Events importer will allow you to re-import those events. That’s probably the best and most efficient route, so you’re right on track.

I’m always a fan of backing the database up before making sweeping changes, so I’d recommend doing that just in case you need to roll anything back. 🙂

Does this help answer your question? Please let me know.

Cheers!
Geoff

[Geoff]

That’s awesome, Tolis! Thanks for following up and sharing that here. I’m so glad that switching things out seemed to address the issue.

I’ll go ahead and close this thread but please feel free to start a new one of anything else comes up and we’d be happy to help. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

[Geoff]

Awesome, I’m glad that worked! Thanks for following up and sharing what worked for you–I’m sure others will find that helpful as well. 🙂

I’ll go ahead and close this thread but please feel free to start a new one if any other questions pop up and we’d be happy to help.

Cheers!
Geoff

[Geoff]

Phew, that’s awesome! I’m glad this is working and the fresh install confirmed that. You know, sometimes hosting providers make silent/automatic updates on our sites without us even knowing it, so there are lots of things that could have been changing the state of things.

Your data should be perfectly safe since it is stored in the database rather than the plugin files. However, I would still advise backing up your files and database as you would with any site updates.

Do you have any other follow up questions here? Please let me know. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

[Geoff]

Hi there, Adam! Welcome back to the forums and thanks for getting in touch. 🙂

Sorry for the trouble here, but I think there’s a fairly simple explanation. The Distance filter is only active if there is known location to gauge it against. So, for example, if I was to search for an event on your calendar in the Denver, CO area, then the Distance filter would be revealed.

Does that help clarify things a bit? I know that can be a little confusing up front but hopefully this helps provide a better explanation of how the filter works.

Cheers!
Geoff

[Geoff]

Hi there and thanks for getting in touch!

Interesting question–are you seeing two separate dropdowns/lists for “My Venues” and “Available Venues”? There should only be a single dropdown/list by default on the Community form (screenshot). Are you seeing something different?

If you’re looking to remove that dropdown altogether, that’s certainly possible with a template override (more on this in our Themer’s Guide). Basically, you would duplicate the modules/venue.php file (located in the-events-calendar-community-events/views/community/modules), drop it into your theme directory in a new folder (tribe-events/community/modules) and modify the template to remove the dropdown (Line 56).

Let me know if this is what you’re looking for and we’ll take it from there. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

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