[Geoff]

Hi there, Mark! Thanks for getting in touch and we’re stoked you love the plugins. 🙂

Great question. If i’m following correctly, you would like to include a calendar widget in the sidebar of a page that only displays events categorized as Birthdays and Anniversaries. Is that correct?

If so, you’re in luck. The PRO version of the plugin comes with two awesome widgets:

• <span style=”line-height: 13px;”>Mini Calendar widget: A small version of the Month grid view with the option to list events below it.</span>
• Advanced Event List widget: A beefed up version of the standard Event List widget with additional options.

Botth widgets include advanced settings to filter the events that are displayed, including by Category or Tag. That means you could add a widget to any registered sidebar of your site and display just the two categories you’d like. Here’s a screenshot of the options for the Mini Calendar to give you an idea of how that works. We also have this handy guide that will walk you through the finer details of the widgets.

Does this help answer your question? Please let me know and thanks again for checking this out!

Cheers,
Geoff

[Geoff]

You could certainly try using a caching plugin to wipe things clean. Naturally, I would suggest backing up your files and database before you do.

You could also try simply deactivating the plugin, clearing your browser cache, then seeing if there is a difference.

If the issue is still there, then try re-saving your events posts to see if that has any impact. If caching is an issue, then re-saving the posts might help.

If the issue continues to pop up, we’ll have to try some deeper troubleshooting to get to the cause. But let’s try these things first, then see what our options are. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

[Geoff]

Hi there, Christian. Thanks for your cooperation so far!

I’m still unable to replicate the issue on my end, so the next thing I would like to try here is creating a fresh test site–this will avoid any disruption to your live site and ensure that we’ve got a “clean canvas” to work with.

• Please install a fresh copy of WordPress in a subdirectory (if you have a CPanel-type hosting account there will probably be a one-click install script to make this really easy)
• Don’t install anything except The Events Calendar and Events Calendar PRO
• Please also stick to a default theme–again, there’s no need to install anything else just yet!
• Create a new recurring event so we have some test data to work with
• Can you replicate the same problem?

If you find you can replicate the problem under these conditions it would be awesome if you could stop and let me know so I can take a look while the site is still running under default conditions.

Thanks for your help!

Geoff

[Geoff]

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

I’m going to go ahead and close this thread, but please feel free to hit us up with a new thread if any other questions pop up. We’d be happy to help. 🙂

Thanks again for checking out the plugins.

Geoff

[Geoff]

Awesome, thanks for following up, Jiri!

I’m going to go ahead and close this thread, but please feel free to hit us up with a new thread if any other questions pop up. I do want to note that we are fairly limited in terms of helping out with custom development questions. That said, we’d love to point you in the right direction if we can. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

[Geoff]

Hi there, Christian! Thanks for getting in touch and welcome to the forums. I’m sorry you’re hitting some trouble here, but let’s see if we can figure it out together. 🙂

That’s definitely strange! I see how events that are set for a specific date (e.g. Nov. 23) display exactly one day before (e.g. Nov. 22). That’s not expected behavior for the calendar, for sure.

Could you try temporarily activating the default Twenty Thirteen theme, to see if the issue happens there as well? If disabling the theme fixes it, that’s good news! It means we have narrowed the issue down to a theme conflict.

If the issue is still there when using the default Twenty Thirteen theme, then we can try testing for conflicts with other installed plugins. Using the Twenty Thirteen, please try deactivating all of your plugins, except for the ones from Modern Tribe. Does that solve the problem? If so, reactivate the plugins one at a time until the issue pops back up, then tell me which one was causing the issue.

These steps are also outlined here if you want some more details on how to test for conflicts.

Give those steps a shot and let me know what you find.

Cheers!
Geoff

[Geoff]

Hi there, Stefan! Thanks for getting in touch. 🙂

Good question. Have you tried using the date settings instead of a function? For example, you can set your WordPress time format to 24-hour format (under Settings > General), then head over to the Event Date Format settings (under Events > Settings > Display) and update the “Date without year” option. Here’s a screenshot of how I configured it to match your format.

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

Cheers!
Geoff

[Geoff]

Ah, gotcha. I see what you mean. Events display correctly on the current day, but navigating to another date will display past events that have expired.

That’s definitely odd! I see you’re using the Yoast plugin and I’ve seen similar issues pop up where Yoast caching old posts, causing them to display. Are you able to clear the cache there and try again?  If that doesn’t do the trick, we’ll need to try testing for conflicts and go from there.

Give that a shot and let me know what you find.

Cheers!
Geoff

[Geoff]

Hi there, Natalie! Thanks for getting in touch and welcome back to the forums. 🙂

Sadly, there is no option to display just the first instance of a recurring event for the mini calendar widget. The option to show the first instance only applies to the calendar List Views, including the Event List widget.

One idea would be to use both widgets, but set the mini calendar widget to display zero events below it and let the Event List widget show the upcoming events for the month. I know that’s not quite what you’re looking for, but it’s a possibility.

I’d suggest adding this to our UserVoice page if it’s a feature you’d like to see. We monitor that page for popular new feature ideas to include in future releases, and I can see how that might be a useful feature for others as well.

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

Cheers!
Geoff

[Geoff]

Hi there, Rodel! Nice to see you again. 🙂

Is there any available security codes to insure my images? its been replaced by 3rd party advertisement

Are you running third party advertising that’s taking over your images? If so, are you able to disable it on Events posts, or control where it is displayed? Images for Events use the standard Featured Image functionality in WordPress, so it seems that the advertising conflicting with WordPress rather than the plugin itself.

And is there any way to put the description on the right side of the picture?

Yes, this is definitely possible with some custom development. You can customize the single-event.php template by overriding it in your theme (see our Themer’s Guide for more details). Another route is try to do it all in CSS. For example, you can drop something like this in your theme’s style.css file:

.single-tribe_events .tribe-events-event-image {
float: left;
margin-right" 30px;
}

You may need to fiddle with this to fit your needs, but it should help point you in the right direction. 🙂

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

Cheers!
Geoff

[Geoff]

Hi there, Jiri! Thanks for getting in touch.

Great question. Custom email messages on a per-ticket or a per-event basis isn’t supported right out of the box.

That said, I do think it would be possible with some custom development. For example, you might consider using Advanced Custom Fields to add an admin field for event posts, use that for your various descriptions, then call it in the email template. The email template can be overridden and customized–see our Themer’s Guide for more details on overriding and customizing our plugin templates.

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

Cheers!
Geoff

[Geoff]

Hi there, Tennille! Thanks for getting in touch. 🙂

Great question. Using the free The Events Calendar plugin will give you the calendar functionality you are looking for, as far as being able to create display events. We also have the Community Events add-on, which allows your visitors to submit events to the calendar. That might be the combination you’re looking for.

Community Events adds a page to your site that includes a form for submitting events. It does include a lot more fields and options than I think you are looking for (i.e. organizers, venues, etc.). It sounds like it would be ideal for what you’re after, but might also take some time to customize it to fit your needs, including some development. That’s likely where you’ll need to decide if it’s best or too much for you.

Here’s a full overview of Community Events that shows you everything from installation to submitting events.

Gravity Forms is certainly an option. However, the information submitted through it would still need to be manually published as an event. Probably not ideal if you’re looking for a plug and play option.

Thanks for asking! Does this help answer your question? Please let me know. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

[Geoff]

Hi there, Kate! Thanks for following up and great job testing. 🙂

When something like this crops up, the best route is typically to contact the theme author. If this was happening in the default WordPress theme, that would tell us that there is something buggy with the plugin that goes against standard WordPress functionality. But since the issue seems to be at the theme level, it’s best to solve it there instead.

One alternative is to create a copy of your theme’s header, replace the page title, then override the events template so it uses the new header instead.

I’m afraid we’re pretty limited in our ability to support custom development like this, but our Themer’s Guide will help walk you through the process of overriding the events template. In this case, you would create a copy of the default-template.php file (located at /plugins/the-events-calendar/views/). Once you drop that in your theme files, you can customize it from there.

Does that make sense? Will that work for you? Please let me know. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

[Geoff]

My pleasure, thanks for following up! I’ll go ahead and close this thread, but please feel free to hit us up with a new one if any other questions pop up. We’d be happy to help. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

[Geoff]

Hi Dee, thanks for following up and confirming the answer! Glad that helped.

I’m going to go ahead and close this thread, but please feel free to hit us up with a new thread if any other questions pop up. We’d be happy to help. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

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