[George]

That’s indeed some odd behavior, Jeff, behavior that seems to indicate a potential code conflict. I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s a factor here and would encourage you to run through our full set of troubleshooting steps here → https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/testing-for-conflicts/

Before doing that, however, did anything improve with my suggestion to remove the URL from the “Redirect URL” option under the Access Control options?

Just curious. If not, then I’d recommend doing those general troubleshooting steps – try some test anonymous submissions after EACH step in that process along the way, and notice how the behavior changes if at all during the process.

Thanks for your patience and persistence with this issue!
George

[George]

Thank you for your patience so far with this, @codeink – with the thread in a general sense, and just over this past three-day holiday weekend specifically!

I appreciate your clarification of things, and am glad to hear that the main /events/ page is working fine – with that in mind, then, there’s no need to jump to the conclusion of code conflicts here which is good news 🙂

If you’re trying to build a list like the one you describe, a sort of “Archive View” of past events, then there’s good news and bad news here. The good news is that, even though the URL you pasted in your first post for this thread doesn’t bring you to the sort of view you’d like, you can still rather easily get a list of “past” events by using some custom code; namely the tribe_get_events() function.

The “bad” news, in a way, is that pulling off a custom view like you want requires a decent amount of code customization, which is bad news in two ways: 1. It’s extra work, and nobody likes that 🙂 and 2. We can’t really help with customizations here, and can only offer general advice and perhaps some quick code examples.

To give you an idea of what making a custom view like you want here would entail, here two example ways to display past events that I can think of:

Just using tribe_get_events()
The simplest method is to just use all the existing page templates and such in your theme, and add the tribe_get_events() function manually somewhere where you’d like your past events to display. Then you’d just write out a query or queries for past events (by month or something, et. cetera) and loop through the results to display the title of the event, date, and location. To learn how to use tribe_get_events() in this way, check out this knowledgebase article: https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/using-tribe_get_events/

Modifying an Existing Events Template
The Events Calendar’s templates are wholly customizable, and so one option here is to use its customization system to just simplify something like the “List View” template. An example of that would be to display the normal views for current and upcoming events, but then if folks page backwards into “past events”, you could display just a simpler list of events that, based on your example, just shows title, date, and location. You could check for whether an event is in the past or not using the aptly named tribe_is_past() conditional function.

To learn about customizing The Events Calendar template files, check out our article on the subject here → https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/themers-guide/

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These are just some examples of how to go about creating the sort of custom display you’re hoping to create. I hope all this is information is helpful – let me know if that’s the case, or if you have any further questions.

Thank you!
George

[George]

Hey @charrame,

Thanks for trying those things out – sorry it didn’t help much. I’m curious, just to be 100% certain of things can you clarify that the following summary of your problems is, in fact, what your problems are:

Do you mean that the widget areas on the bottom of your site used to be up on the left or right of the page?

I just wanted to clarify this detail because what follows from this is another thing I wrote above:

If so, then this is something that your theme dictates. We try to accommodate theme templates by allowing you set the template used for even pages.

In other words, the problem is your theme for the most part, which will limit how much we can help here.

With that being said, in general you can get started on customizing your theme to make sure the sidebar is on the right side of the page by heading to your theme’s style.css file and adding CSS like this to the bottom of the file:


body.post-type-archive-tribe_events #main.cb-main {
float: left !important;
width: 69% !important;
}

body.post-type-archive-tribe_events .cb-sticky-sidebar {
width: 27% !important;
float: left !important;
position: relative !important;
top: 0 !important;
}


Here’s how that makes things look for me on your site, for example:

Try that out! I hope it helps 🙂

Cheers,
George

[George]

Hey Graham – I’m sorry you have to go to such lengths to achieve the effect you want, at this time, but am glad that there is some semblance of a “solution” (or at least a “workaround”) for now.

I hope that works well on your site – stay tuned to plugin updates over time because querying for events is a weak point of our plugin that we hopefully can improve. If you have any specific ideas regarding how to do this, we’d love for your feedback on our UserVoice page here → http://tribe.uservoice.com/forums/195723-feature-ideas

I’ll close up this thread for now, but if you’d like help with anything else come back and open a new thread any time 🙂

Best of luck with your site,
George

[George]

Hey Rebecca,

Thanks for reaching out!

What you’re looking for here is sort-of possible if you have Events Calendar Pro – you can use the shortcode [tribe_events_list] and set the “count” attribute to only be 1, and it will only grab one event.

It may not work exactly as you hope, but you should definitely feel free to try – we have a refund policy whereby we can immediately issue a refund in full for any reason within the first 30 days of purchase.

To learn more about that [tribe_events_list] shortcode and how to use it to specify, for example, a category and such as you asked, check out this article here → https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/pro-widget-shortcodes/

It’s pretty flexible and might work well for you!

Let me know if this helps!

— George

[George]

Hey @marxedproject,

Thanks for reaching out! These are all, unfortunately, things that you can only achieve by writing custom code. We do not support custom code here, but I can hopefully at least point you in the right direction:

First, you’ll want to read through our Themer’s Guide here → https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/themers-guide/

That goes over how to make customizations like the ones you want to make in a safe way.

Once you’ve got the hang of that system, you can use it to then piece together your customizations. You’ll want to read through the src/views files of both The Events Calendar, Events Calendar Pro, and of Filter Bar itself, to get a sense of how the views work and, for example, which ones affect the photo view and where to add code to move the Filter Bar itself.

I know this information is vague, and apologize for that – I just wanted to help you get started with the customization process in general. Definitely give that Themer’s Guide a read, and if you have any more specific followup questions from there, let me know right away! 🙂 I’ll be happy to help offer some more specific advice along the way.

Cheers!
George

[George]

Hey Allison,

Really sorry to hear about these issues on your site! We’re about to head into a three-day weekend with the Labor Day holiday on Monday and all, so I’ll leave you with two steps that you can do here that will help immensely with troubleshooting, since I’m unable to reproduce these problems:

First is to share your system information with us, which you can learn to do here → https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/sharing-sys-info/

Next, run through our complete troubleshooting steps as outlined here → https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/testing-for-conflicts/

Do a test import after each step in that process, and see if the behavior of your problem is changed at all. If the issue doesn’t seem to be happening after a specific deactivation, then that means there’s a code conflict with that theme or plugin and we can continue from there.

Thank you in advance for doing both steps here, if you’re able to!

— George

[George]

Hey @Barry,

The full 3.12 release should arrive early next week, our plan is right after Labor Day. This is subject to change, but that’s the official plan 🙂

As for your customizations, as long as you’ve made them in the /tribe-events folder of your theme as instructed in our Themer’s Guide, you should be able to update totally fine without issue. Here’s that Themer’s Guide for reference → https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/themers-guide/

There shouldn’t be code or template issues with this release – if you’re concerned about this, however, your best bet is to leave WP_DEBUG set to “true” on your site, then update, and then if there are PHP errors they will display on your site. Then you can go to the specific file and line number reported in the errors and fix the problems if there are any.

Again, however, that is unlikely. It depends on what your customizations are, of course, and on how exactly you’ve written your own code, but from the perspective of in-plugin changes alone it is a very low chance that this update will introduce a breaking change for you.

I hope that helps! I’ll close up this thread for now but if any other problems or questions arise open a new thread any time! 🙂

Cheers,
George

[George]

Hey Lorena,

This is technically possible, but unfortunately would require custom code:

I’m wondering if I can show a calendar widget on a specific page by category

Some of the specifics of that customization, depending on how you want to implement it, are a bit outside the scope of the support forums here. 🙁 Let me know if you’re interested in writing code at all, though, and I can try to offer some general advice.

If you’d rather try and find another solution to not have to write code, let me – I’m sorry our plugin won’t meet your needs in this case, but can help with any other questions, comments, or concerns you might have.

Cheers!
George

[George]

Hey @charrame,

Sorry to hear about this! Can you share your system information with us? Here’s how to do that → https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/sharing-sys-info/

Also, can you let us know what your “Permalinks” settings are in “Settings > Permalinks” in your wp-admin?

This is an odd issue that I cannot reproduce, so these first steps of getting system information will help us in trying to reproduce the problem and figure out what’s going on.

Thank you!
George

[George]

Hey @Iain,

This is possible, but it’s unfortunately a customization that’s a bit outside of the scope of the support forums here.

That’s not because we don’t help you! It’s mostly because coming up with a programmatic way to get the specific ID of that last recurring event for all the events series is much harder than it seems… 🙁

I’m sorry to disappoint! Please let me know if there’s anything else I can try to help with.

Thank you,
George

[George]

Hey Oliver,

You can totally customize the Community Events notifications emails by making a custom version of the following template file:


views/community/email-template.php


To make a custom version of template files, you basically just need to follow the steps outlined in this guide here → https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/themers-guide/

As for getting author info and other data, all of these things are possible with WordPress functions – you can search for functions related to getting specific data on http://codex.wordpress.org

I hope all this information helps!

Best of luck with your customizations,
George

[George]

Hey Jako,

Hm, that code works really well for me, which is curious here – if you paste the entire contents of your functions.php file into a Gist at http://gist.github.com and then share a link to that Gist, I’ll take a look and see if the place you’ve added that code is problematic here at all.

Thank you for your patience Jako!

– George

[George]

Hey Thomas,

Thank you so much for your patience here, and for your diligence testing for customization issues.

Unfortunately, yes, if your customizations don’t seem to be impacting the problem at all, but simply activating a default theme does fix your links as noted earlier, then it seems that yes, your other theme is conflicting here in some way.

I unfortunately do not know exactly what is causing the problem theme – sorry to disappoint on that front!

Your best bet is to contact the theme developer or post in their support forums directly, they may have global query manipulation stuff in their theme code that is causing this or something similar and hopefully they can help you with fixing those problems.

Let me know what you think and if there is anything else I can help with!

— George

[George]

Hey Ben,

I’m sorry for all the trouble you’ve been having! It still unfortunately sounds like there are deeper issues on your site here, but you might have some success if you try using the Release Candidates of our next versions of the plugins, version 3.12.

You can learn about how to get and install these Release Candidates here → https://theeventscalendar.com/version-3-12-release-candidate-code-is-now-available/

Try replacing your existing Tribe plugins with those release candidate versions and see if that helps at all.

Thank you so much for your patience here!

Cheers,
George

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