[George]

Thank you everyone here for being patient while we sort out as many translations as possible, and bring things up to date across all languages for all plugins. Your patience means a ton!

The partial-English problem is one that could come from a few different sources, so we’re working on it.

Thank you!
George

[George]

Hi David,

Translations you made right on the live site will not be included in the export files until they are manually approved by an administrator. If the translation file is still incomplete, then the French/English mix could result from that.

We are working hard to approve translations as fast as we can, and while I understand your frustration and claim that this is unprofessional, I urge you to see how the new translations site is better regardless.

Let’s say we didn’t have the new translations site – all languages, including French, would be out of date anyways, because every time a plugin is updated it’s strings change. So the problem of broken translations after updates is a known and expected problem for every theme and plugin out there. Our new translation site will let us solve this faster, and instead of users having to translate whole files, they can just contribute individual strings if they’d like.

Your patience means a lot, and I can understand how frustrating this is. We made some mistakes with the French translation that we’ve recently fixed, and are now awaiting further translations to approve so we can resolve the translation and have it work for people when they use it on their site.

Please stay tuned for future updates here.

Thanks,
George

[George]

Hi @pderathe,

I’m sorry to hear that you’ve continued to have trouble with this translation on your site – as @agence reported above, the French translation on translations.theeventscalendar.com was accidentally uploaded as a Finnish one. We’ve fixed that in General, but it’s possible there are still broken or untranslated strings.

We will approve translations as fast as we can to rectify these problems.

Thank you everyone for your patience while we adapt to the new system and bring our translations up-to-date after the 3.10 update.

— George

[George]

Hey Carl, you posted this same question in another thread here today → https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/how-to-change-month-view-title/

So, to keep things organized I will close this thread and keep our conversation there in the thread above.

Thanks,
George

[George]

Hey Carl,

I shared that link with you in your other forum post about this, and at this time the methods described there are the best methods for changing the title.

If you want to be more specific about your modifications, then you’ll have to write more specific code for the modified title.

For example, if you want to preserve everything but change just “Events for” to “Course Schedule for” (to preserver the month name and year, for example) then you could use PHP’s str_replace() function to just swap out these specific words. Like this:

add_filter( 'tribe_get_events_title', 'example_filtering_the_title' );

function example_filtering_the_title( $title ) {

	if ( strpos( $title, 'Events for' ) !== false ) {
		return str_replace( 'Events for', 'Course Schedule for', $title );
	}

	return str_replace( 'Events', 'Courses', $title );
}

This is unfortunately the most help we can provide here, since you’ll have to take the reins on customizing the code to fit your needs exactly, but between this information and the information I shared in your original thread from yesterday you have enough to work with. I will close that other thread which is at https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/changing-the-text-on-the-main-events-page/.

We can keep any further conversation about this customization in this thread, just to keep things organized.

Thanks,
George

[George]

Hi Ken,

I went to http://iwradio.co.uk/events/ and checked out the Previous and Next links, and they all worked fine for me in any calendar view I tried.

Is this the site you’re talking about? If not, what site are you talking about? Share a URL if you can.

Thanks!
George

[George]

Hey Ryan,

The simplest alternative I could think of would be to write custom CSS at the bottom of your theme’s style.css file to achieve this.

First, hide the default elements with CSS like this:

.tribe-events-nav-previous span,
.tribe-events-nav-next span {
    display: none !important;
}

Then, use the :before and :after CSS3 pseudo-selectors and the content rule to, well, add content before or after those elements. This will replace the originals pretty adequately.

As an example, after hiding the default arrows with the code above, code like this would a different type of left-facing arrow before the Previous button:

.tribe-events-nav-previous:before {
    content: '←';
}

I’m pasting in a left-arrow character there that I grabbed from http://copypastecharacter.com.

Here’s how that looks:

Doing this for the “Next” events link is just as simple, but you use “after” instead of “before:

.tribe-events-nav-previous:after {
    content: '→';
}

You can apply width/cover/hover/font/image styles from here, but this should give you a good basis for beginning these customizations. Best of luck with them – and be sure to keep good backups of any custom code! (and your site and database in general, of course 🙂 )

Cheers,
George

[George]

Just a quick followup here – I’ve logged this as a ticket in our development system, so it’ll be a discussion point for upcoming releases and we’ll try to fix this promptly!

Thank you,
George

[George]

Hi Samuel,

This is an interesting revelation and I assure you it’s s a feature of Finnish that we were not aware of when we made these changes!

As you (kindly!) mention, this feature does work superbly for most languages where this sort of verbiage makes sense. So while I can’t think of getting rid of this string-replacement altogether, there could be some alternatives here that would make it in a future release.

I will bring this up with the rest of the development team and see what can be done. In the meantime, I’m sorry to bear the bad news that there’s little that can be changed on the code-side of things.

Is there any Finnish-friendly solution you can think of for the translation itself, while we work on a better solution? Would leaving the word “Events” in English make sense at all? Perhaps if it was capitalized so as to be a proper noun, which would justify its lack of being translation? Just throwing out ideas. Let us know what you think.

I’m sorry for any inconvenience this has caused. Hopefully we can build a useful alternative here!

— George

[George]

Hey Lorene,

I’m sorry to hear about these issues! There are a few pieces of information that could make a huge difference as far as finding out what’s responsible for this problem on your site. If possible, can you address the following items in the order they appear?

1. First, what versions of The Events Calendar and of Events Calendar PRO are you using on your site?

2. What version of WordPress is running on your site?

3. Can you take a screenshot of the Recurrence settings for these events, and share a link to that screenshot in your reply? You can use an apps like CloudUp for taking & sharing screenshots, or just manually upload them to your WordPress site’s media library and link from there, or Dropbox.com, etc.

These pieces of information will help us get started on the troubleshooting here. Thanks in advance for sharing these details!

— George

[George]

Hey Mark,

Looks like our replies here came in at just about the same moment, ha! See my post above yours here about testing in Google Chrome, and run through those questions I listed there. That should some helpful info here, though you’re right that we can disable the is_04 check in your theme as a “last resort” sort of thing if nothing else works.

Thanks for your patience with this issue, cheers!

— George

[George]

Hey Mark,

Sorry that didn’t help. I’m curious about a few things from here:

1. What method are you using to change the default /events/ slug to /calendar/ ?

2. Does un-doing the method for Question #1 here temporarily, so that your site uses the default /events/ slug affect any of this behavior? (Tip: Be sure to do the “Save Permalinks” trick again after disabling whatever modification you made for #1).

3. If doing #2 does not help this issue – What other plugins do you have on your site? If you deactivate them one at a time, and check on this issue after each deactivation, does any of the behavior change? (Exclude The Events Calendar itself from this process, of course 🙂 )

4. If doing #3 does not help here – what if you leave all of these non-Events Calendar plugins deactivated, and then activate a default theme like Twenty Twelve on your site? If you do that and then the “Save Permalinks” trick once more, does anything change with this behavior?

Thank you for your patience with this! These questions here should help us a ton.

Cheers,
George

[George]

Awesome! Glad to hear about both results 🙂

Be sure to keep a good backup of your site so that you help prevent the loss of custom code like this.

Best of luck with your site,
George

[George]

Hey Rob,

Unfortunately, there is little that can be done to change the PayPal.com purchase page screen itself. You can make some general customizations from within your PayPal.com account, but not much can be added from within The Events Calendar itself. I’m sorry to disappoint here!

Let us know if this helps clarify things or if you have any other questions or concerns.

— George

[George]

Hi Donald,

Adding new CSS files can be a solution for customizations and such, but the essence of your question boiled down to what you ended your first post with:

How can I get rid og all these css files and have one?

Adding more files to a sub-folder for Events in your theme can help with some customization issues, but won’t help here, and your problems seem to mostly be because of the CSS coming from your theme, as evidenced by your comments about setting up the calendar on a friend’s site and not having these issues.

Further, you mentioned having trouble customizing things because of CSS being spread across different files:

Also, if I want to change the calendar, the formatting for the name of the event is in one style sheet, the date is in another, description another, calendar grid yet another.

This is not quite true, but if you want to simplify things, the best solution for that is to go back and select the “Skeleton” styles on your site. This will leave the rest of the styling up to your theme, which though it seems to be the main problem here, would simplify the process of fixing these styles because you could then just write CSS to correct it one place: at the very bottom of your theme’s style.css file.

I’m sorry about some of the limitations that come into play when the main problem is your theme, but that seems to be the case here. Hopefully being able to customize things at the bottom of your theme’s style.css helps simplify things a bit.

Cheers,
George

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