[George]

Hey Simon,

Is the site in question this one? → http://www.leapinghare.org/events/

If so, then the issue seems to be a tough one to resolve – your images themselves are mostly on the smaller side of sizing, like this one for example → http://www.leapinghare.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/April-2015-val-audrey-exhibition-212×300.jpg

The tribe_event_featured_image() function, which is what pulls in those very images, uses the ‘full’ thumbnail size within WordPress. As the name implies, this size is the full, un-cropped / un-edited version of the image, exactly how it is when you upload it.

This has a few implications, which you’re noticing here with the bluriness and such. WordPress cannot “upsize” images, or make them bigger and clearer, so for images that are like this one, no solution would work as well as simply using a larger thumbnail image.

Other options would be adjusting the grid size of the Photo View’s columns, making the columns thinner so that the images don’t have to take up as much space and can thus be a bit clearer / less-distorted. Or, you could make custom versions of The Events Calendar templates within your theme, and specify smaller WordPress image sizes like ‘thumbnail’ for the instances of tribe_event_featured_image() that you find in the files responsible for the Photo View.

Both of these secondary options would unfortunately take a healthy amount of custom coding, but you can learn more about how to make these sorts of customizations by reading our official Themer’s Guide here → https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/themers-guide/

I hope something here helps, Simon! Let us know if it does.

Cheers,
George

[George]

Hey Simon,

This should indeed be possible with one event, by using the “Custom” recurrence type in your event’s date options – something like in this screenshot → https://cloudup.com/c76sgLPID7F

Use that screenshot as a simple guide and this Knowledgebase Article as a more thorough one → https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/pro-recurring-events/

I’m sure with those guides and playing around a bit you’ll be able to configure this exactly as needed.

Let us know if this helps! 🙂

[George]

Hey Lars,

This is unfortunately much harder to do than it might seem. I’ve tried for a while to pull this off, to no avail – the trick is that you’d have to set up a range you’re willing to search for events within anyways, which might defeat the purpose of what you’re trying to do here.

The problem is that you can’t compare date strings in PHP, yet these are how the _eventStartDate and _eventEndDate are stored in The Events Calendar.

You can compare the Unix Timestamp of these dates, which you might be able to take and work with from there, but you’d have to query a bunch of events first to even have a sample size of events whose dates you could then convert to timestamps for comparison.

It’s a tricky problem and one that has sparked some ideas on my end of things, and I will bring this up with other developers on our team to see if there’s something to do here to improve this.

I’m sorry for the disappointment Lars. Please let us know if you have any other questions or concerns!

— George

[George]

Hi Julie,

I checked out your site and it indeed seems like an unspecified CSS rule from your theme is causing these layout issues. If you add the following CSS to the bottom of your theme’s style.css file, however, it should resolve these issues:

.type-tribe_events .vcard span {
    display: inline-block !important;
}

It fixed things for me, so let us know if it works for you too! 🙂

— George

[George]

Hi Christopher!

Funny to see Boston-area folk here, I live quite close to your Temple and ride past it on my bike on the Riverway pretty often! 🙂

Now, as for your calendar problems – I’m curious about the behavior you describe with your list widget here. You sum things up well when you write: The upcoming events widget should auto remove events that have elapsed their times so other events can show.

That is indeed what should happen, so to learn a bit more about what’s going on here, could you clarify some of these points here? In no particular order:

a) When you encounter the problem of “passed” events not disappearing, do you always indeed have more “upcoming” events that should be showing up instead?
b) You mention that events that end at 9am, for example, still stay on your calendar – do they eventually disappear as desired?
c) What are the timezone settings for your WordPress installation? You can find this out in Settings > General in your admin area.

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The other thing you asked was this:

Is there a way to display the widgets in the body of the page without using a third party add-on like events rocket?

There is a way to do this, but it means editing theme code. You can use WordPress’ the_widget() function to create widget instances basically anywhere you want – learn more about this function here.

Let us know about some of the questions mentioned above regarding your Past events widget display problem, and if the the_widget() function seems promising for your needs.

Thanks!
George

[George]

Hey Patrick,

Thanks for reaching out, and for checking with us about some recent code because, you’re right – code from a few years ago is likely not a good idea to put on your site! 🙂

The essence of this question is a customization, so there’s technically only limited support we can provide here – but I’m curious, for what you’re describing here, are you trying to make it so that venues themselves have categories?

Or are you trying to make it so that the Venue pages will display events of a specific event category related to that venue? In other words, relating existing Event Categories to specific venues, and then displaying things based on this relationship…

I’m sorry if neither thing is quite what you’re trying to do – in any case, elaborate a bit more on how things currently are, and then describe exactly how you want them to be instead. We can definitely at least point you in the right direction for implementing what you want here, and hopefully recommend some code to get you started!

Cheers,
George

[George]

Hey John,

Thanks for reaching out to us. Can you clarify exactly what you’re aiming to do here? For example, are you trying to hide the “$25.00” ticket price area completely? (on your main /events/ listing, like in here → https://cloudup.com/cIov8MgpGRN)

Or are you just trying to get that value to show the value of your lowest ticket price?

If neither of these things are what you mean – sorry for the misunderstanding. Describe what is currently happening and what you want to happen instead in a bit more detail and we can provide some more detailed help here.

Thanks John!

[George]

Hi Courtney,

I’m sorry to hear about this behavior – while updating to 3.9.3 may not by itself fix this issue, it’s recommended anyways.

Once you’ve updated, I’m curious if you can go through the troubleshooting steps we’ve outlined here → https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/testing-for-conflicts/

After each step described there, you should try editing recurring events and see if the behavior you describe here persists.

Let us know what you find!

Thanks,
George

[George]

Hey Glenn,

I have two ideas here that might help.

First, try making this function declaration:

ecp_filter_single_title( $title_filter, $new_title, $title, $sep ) {

Instead look like this:

ecp_filter_single_title( $title_filter, $new_title, $title, $sep = '|' ) {

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If that does not help, then instead try removing that $sep argument altogether, like this:

ecp_filter_single_title( $title_filter, $new_title, $title  ) {

And then go to the actual add_filter() bit of code and make the 4 a 3, so that it looks like this:

add_filter('tribe_events_title_tag', 'ecp_filter_single_title', 10, 3);

Let us know if either solution helps suppress that error!

Thanks,
George

[George]

Hey Scott,

Thanks for reaching out to us here, this is an interesting question because inserting calendar views outside their normal layout can be tricky – especially in the context of a scrolling layout, and the design patterns usually in place on such sites.

There are a few different options I can think of.

Idea 1. Using Event Rocket
Event Rocket is a free add-on/experimental plugin made by one of our awesome developers Barry. He’s Scottish and loves dancing, and writes great code, including this plugin, which features some “embedding” shortcodes that many users have found useful for embedding event views into disparate parts of their sites → https://wordpress.org/plugins/event-rocket/

That may not meet your needs here, but is a pretty simple and low-cost thing to try, so it might be fruitful.

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Idea 2. Writing Custom Theme Templates
All of the front-end views for parts of The Events Calendar are located in the plugin’s /views folder, and you can completely override all views here by making a folder in your theme called /tribe-events, then just duplicating the file names and directory structure from there.

So, for example, if you want to make a theme-specific version of the plugin’s default /views/single-event.php file, all you have to do is make /tribe-events/single-event.php in your theme and it’ll be used instead!

This is a bit more intensive, but it may be awesome for your project because you can just copy the event-generation code from the Core plugin views into your theme-specific versions, but rework all the markup around this event-generation code to make things fit into the page structure of your scrolling layout.

Learn about customizing Calendar templates in detail here → https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/themers-guide/

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Idea 3. Embedding (and then Customizing) the Calendar Widget
This last idea is an admittedly an odd one, but if you have our PRO add-on, then you should be able to see that the Mini-Calendar widget is quite similar to the actual full calendar – plus, since it’s a widget, you can embed this anywhere on your site quite easily using WordPress’s the_widget() function (read about this here → https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_widget)

Once embedded, you can use the same principles I mentioned in Idea 2 to customize how the widget looks, and add more data to it so it’s a more full-featured calendar instance, and style it with CSS however you see fit…

Apologies for so much text here Scott! Embedding whole instances of the calendar in places other than their default locales is a bit tricky, so I wanted to cover a lot of ground and get the gears turning on your end of things. I hope something here is helpful – let us know!

Thanks,
George

[George]

Hey Lluis,

Thanks for reaching out to us here, this is quite an interesting predicament since 1.3.0 is extremely outdated. That unfortunately means that there isn’t really an upgrade process, other than just manually upgrading carefully.

Basically, since you’re already upgrading one version at a time, here’s how I’d recommend approaching each upgrade:

1. Make a complete back-up of your site and database – if you’re not familiar with this process, there are many different ways you can go about actually creating backups, but as long as you find a method that is relatively easy for you to do, and you are able to restore from it, that’s fine.

2. Upgrade to the next major release. This means, for example, not worrying about the “third digit” in the version numbers, but just the secondary ones. So no need to go from 1.5.0 to 1.5.1, for example, but going from 1.5.0 to 1.6.0 and so on should be a good way to do this.

A note on actually performing the upgrades: since you mention things like the folder names changing and such, I think the best approach here would be to manually upgrade in the /wp-content/plugins folder on your site, over FTP, instead of doing this in the admin-area of your WordPress site.

3. If the upgrade goes successfully, make another backup of everything like you did and step one, and repeat all the way until you’re running the most recent version of The Events Calendar on your site.

If you run into issues on a given upgrade, I’d recommend activating a default theme like Twenty Twelve, then deactivating every plugin on your site, then trying the installation again.

This process may seem tedious Lluis, and I’m sorry about your being in this situation, but it seems like the most safe and cautious way to go about doing this. I’m sure you can take a quite a bit of liberty here, skipping various version numbers to speed up the process as you see fit, but the important thing is just to make good backups before each upgrade, and doing the upgrades manually right over FTP where you wholly delete the existing folder and all of its files, then un-zip the next version and manually upload that new folder to your site’s /wp-content/plugins directory.

Let us know if this helps!

— George

[George]

Hey Daniel,

Are all of your issues fixed now? Or are you still running into problems on your site? If so, I’d recommend running through our official set of troubleshooting steps, and letting us know what you find → https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/testing-for-conflicts/

Thanks!
George

[George]

Hey Jeff,

Thanks for reaching out to us here. For recurring events, you would indeed need the PRO add-on. This is something you buy and install in addition to the core, free version of The Events Calendar on your site – in other words, both would be active on your site side-by-side.

As for needing to recreate events, if you have events that you want to be recurring but they’re currently not, then for these events your best option is to indeed just copy over content of the events manually, and then set their dates and times anew and then add the recurrence information and save the series of events. You could try to just add recurrence information to the events that already exist after you activate PRO on your site, but the method I mentioned above about recreating the events seems less prone to problems or to the information not updating correctly for the series.

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As for your question about organizers, the default “Organizers” taxonomy doesn’t have things like profile pictures at this time – there are taxonomy descriptions that you could use as places to put the organizer bios, but for adding profile pictures and/or adding a custom page that pulls all of them into a grid and such, these features would require custom code.

Let us know if this information is helpful, or if you have any other questions or concerns!

Thanks,
George

[George]

Hey Emily!

Thanks for reaching out to us, and for even considering The Events Calendar as on option for your project.

Before addressing each of your points, one thing worth pointing out is that the core version of The Events Calendar itself is totally free on wordpress.org → https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar/

I mention this because it might really helpful for you to install this free plugin and play around with it yourself, particularly for your questions about how the calendar looks itself. You can check out our demo site at http://wpshindig.com/ and explore the appearance and functionality of the calendar, and also install the free version and see how it looks on your site.I hope that helps!

Now, on to your specific questions.

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Could we sort by category so that different categories of options could be displayed on different pages?

You can definitely categorize events uniquely, and then sort by these categories to only show events in the selected category. Our official Filter Bar add-on does this beautifully. But for showing different “categories of options”, as you describe it, I’m not 100% sure what you mean – if you mean that events in certain categories will have different information showing for them, then this might be possible to do with the PRO add-on’s “Additional Fields” functionality, and then just only using certain fields for certain categories. You can read about this “Additional Fields” functionality in depth here → https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/pro-additional-fields/

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Can location be used for rooms within a facility or only on a map?

By default there isn’t support for locations of events within another location like you mention here, but the above-mentioned “Additional Fields” features may be useful here as well.

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Can I import events from a csv?

Yes! 🙂 This is included even in the free version of the plugin off of wordpress.org, so you can download that for free and play around with this directly if you’re interested in doing so.

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Can attachments be added to event descriptions so, for instance, if there is a handout for workshop attendees, that can be included in the event?

There isn’t default support for this within The Events Calendar, but WordPress itself offers quite flexible support for attachments. With that and a bit of custom coding, you could pull this off for sure. For example, you could upload event materials to your WordPress site in the “Media Library” page of your admin. Then, copy the download link for the file. Then, you could create one of the aforementioned “Additional Fields” for storing this URL in the relevant event or events – and finally, from there, you could add just a bit of custom code to display this link on an event’s decsription – or anywhere else on your site related to that event!

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Can there be an archive of past events so that if people want to access those handouts afterward, they can still get to them?

Yes, this should not be an issue – when event passes, it will wholly exist on your site, and be searchable, filterable by category, etc. The only difference is the event will have some text in its information section saying “Event Passed” – but the materials would indeed still be downloadable.

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Our website is tri-lingual. I see in your documents that this plugin is translated, but can it be used tri-lingually at the same time? We use qTranslate Plus.

I unfortunately do not know if qTranslate itself would be totally compatible here, though it should be – The Events Calendar uses completely standards-compliant gettext translation functions that are used within WordPress, so any translation system or plugin that works fine with that system should, in theory, work fine with The Events Calendar.

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There’s a lot of information here, I hope it’s helpful! Some of your specific questions would require a bit of custom coding, which we don’t officially offer support for, but hopefully the documentation I’ve shared and such is useful in your decision-making here.

Let us know what you think and if you have any other questions or concerns!

Thanks Emily

[George]

Hey Todd,

There are unfortunately some inherent limitations to title generation for the Events page title – even without Yoast active and installed on your site.

But with the combination of of The Events Calendar’s unique events-page generation, and the odd and hard-to-workaround ways Yoast SEO handles page <title> tags, you will unfortunately need some custom code at minimum to force the display of custom titles. Meta descriptions are tricky too, but for now we should first ensure you can get titles working as that is essential.

For getting the titles to work, does using the code solutions recommended by Brook in this other forum topic help for you? https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/page-title-for-main-event-page/

Check that thread out and read through Brook’s recommendations, as they are sound and the code he recommends has worked for other users since.

Let us know what you find!

— George

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