[George]

Hey Jeff!

The back button and such are indeed a bit tricky with these export links, but you should be able to at least help improve that functionality as you describe here by heading to /lib/tribe-ical.class.php in your Events Calendar plugin files – the core, free version, not the PRO add-on or any other add-on.

Once here, head to around line 69 or so and look for a function single_event_links() – simply add target=”_blank” here, and save the file, and it should work well.

One important note: since these are changes to the core plugin files, you will lose these changes after the next auto-update – no worries though, the function is in the same place, with nothing new except the name of the file being simply /lib/iCal.php instead of /lib/tribe-ical.class.php. Just add the changes back and re-save the file, and you should be good to go. (You can even bookmark this support topic for reference or something).

Let us know if this helps!
George

[George]

Hi Ron,

Thanks for reaching out to us here. I’m not 100% certain what you mean about importing events from “all subscribed calendars”, but you can import Facebook events from Facebook pages and on an individual per-event basis with our Facebook Importer add-on.

If you’re curious about the actual import process, the intro video on the main Facebook Importer product page is a great demonstration of the process from beginning to end – I’d recommend watching it in full, which you can do here → https://theeventscalendar.com/product/facebook-events/

If you have further specific questions after watching that, let us know!

Thanks!
George

[George]

Hey Nicolas,

Thanks for reaching out to us! If I understand your request accurately, then this should be quite simple to do – basically, wherever you want the Day name of the various date to show up, you should be able to use code like the following:

$date = tribe_get_event_meta( get_the_ID(), '_EventStartDate', true );
echo date( 'l', strtotime( $date ) );

The first line gets the start date of the event you’re currently on, and then the second line displays the full name of the day (e.g. “Thursday”, or “Saturday”, etc.) using PHP’s date() function.

Learn more about the date() function here → http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

Play around with this and let us know if it helps! 🙂

Cheers,
George

[George]

Hey Martin,

The troublesome line can be seen in full at this link → https://github.com/moderntribe/the-events-calendar/blob/release/117/lib/tribe-templates.class.php#L688

So it seems that the $post variable isn’t an object, which means that the $post global isn’t being set properly or something – there are several things that could cause this, and if you are truly interested, you should run through the full set of troubleshooting steps we have outlined in this article and check on this issue after each step, and see if anything improves along the way → https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/testing-for-conflicts/

The [relatively] good news, however, is that this is just a “notice”, not an outright error, so it really shouldn’t be causing any actual problems with functionality on your site – is this true? Or do you find actual problems when you try to view or use your events, as well?

— George

[George]

Hi Greg,

Since we can unfortunately only provide very limited support for customizations and such, a high-level overview of how to make the Community Events submission look exactly like you want is as follows:

* The “meat and potatoes” of customizing would really be writing custom CSS in the bottom of your theme or child theme’s style.css file. If you’re not familiar with how to find what to style with CSS, I can’t recommend a [free!] tool like Firebug for FireFox, or the Developer Tools for either Safari or Chrome enough – these all have “Inspector” tools, that let you zoom right to an element whose padding/colors/font-styles/whatever you want to change, and then see what CSS exists already. It makes customizing almost – dare I say – fun.

Let’s use the “Event Categories” area on your page as an example – in this screenshot, the categories box is highlighted with a blue border because I’m selecting it with Firebug’s “Inspector” tool → https://cloudup.com/c0je_zb2deE

That shows all the related HTML classes and IDs that can be used for writing custom CSS. So as a quick example, I used the Inspector tool and wrote the following CSS:

#event-categories li {
    text-align: left;
}
#event-categories {
    margin-bottom: 16px !important;
}
.tribe-events-community-details.eventForm.bubble table td {
    padding: 5px !important;
}
.tribe-events-community-details.eventForm.bubble table {
    margin: 0;
}
.tribe-events-community-details.eventForm.bubble {
    padding: 0 !important;
}

Here’s how that ended up looking on your site when I tested it out → https://cloudup.com/c0je_zb2deE

I hope that helps!

The next method for customizing is to use our templating system to wholly customize even the HTML of the page itself – you can learn about the whole process of doing this in our official Themer’s Guide here → https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/themers-guide/

Both methods should be a great start towards getting things looking exactly like you want – let us know what you think about all this and if you have any other questions or concerns!

Cheers,
George

[George]

Hey Pier!

I hate to bear the bad news, but no, this is unfortunately not possible at this time.

Events Calendar PRO’s recurrence features would let you create one instance of that 9am “Gym” event, and have it repeat every Monday, and then the same for each other instance of the “Gym” event, but you cannot repeat them within one day.

Does that make sense? If not, let me know – and also check out our full overview of the Recurring Events system here, it should be quite helpful: https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/pro-recurring-events/

— George

[George]

Hey Robyn,

There unfortunately isn’t much extra that can be done here – if the location-based filtering in the Filter Bar add-on is not enough, then the strength of the location filtering would be in the hands of that interactive map plugin you mentioned.

You could filter Venues by various components of their address manually, e.g. by their City, or State, or Country, or even zip code if those are provided. But as for plotting those specific grouped events on a map, that’s something that would unfortunately take a significant amount of custom coding.

Let us know what you think here, if my reply here wasn’t specific enough let me know what other information you’d be curious to know!

Thanks Robyn!

[George]

Hi Tomek!

This is unfortunately quite a complicated thing to code, and there not may be any solution here for now. However, there are two bits of good news here:

1. This exact feature is something we’re working hard to include in a future update of the plugins, it’s a very high priority and part of our release plans – while it won’t make it into the next public release, it may very well be in the one after that. It’s high on our to-do list, as many people have been requesting this functionality!

2. I might be possible to pull something off here, and I will take a deeper dive into some code and play around with some ideas that I came up with and that some other folks on our support team have suggested, particularly an idea from one of our awesome support crew Josh – he has an idea that seems very promising and I will try to put something together!

Stay tuned to this ticket – I will post as soon as possible if I’m able to figure out some way to do this with code so you don’t have to manually add every single ticket.

Sorry for the disappointment that this is not currently in our codebase, and that it may take some time to make it into your codebase. But we are working on it! 🙂

Cheers,
George

[George]

Hi Neil,

You can indeed add categories anywhere you need, but it’s a bit more involved of a customization – your best bet is to search around the forums for pre-existing threads related to this, as we’ve shared code before, but the general idea is to first make custom theme templates of any parts of The Events Calendar you want to want to customize. To learn more about that, check out our official themer’s guide here → https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/themers-guide/

Once you’ve got custom template files in place, you can use functions like tribe_get_event_categories() to display the event categories quite easily – check this function out in the source code of your plugin files to learn about, and play around with adding it in your custom template files. This should be a great start!

Cheers,
George

[George]

Hey Jennifer,

You can indeed export the data, and while out-of-the-box the export functionality isn’t tailored exactly to only showing the fields you mentioned here, you can get all the raw data there in XML format.

Now, I don’t know what spreadsheet tool you’re using, but you can usually import XML into spreadsheet applications. Google Docs, for example → https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3093342?hl=en

With that raw data there, you could then filter out what’s not needed and hopefully get something semi-useful…or have your client log into the WordPress admin, and modify the listing of the admin columns to show the venue city name instead of the venue itself.

These are the main options I can think of, and am sorry that CSV plugin didn’t work out well. It’s possible that other CSV plugins would work better for you, though I understand how frustrating it can be to try and wade through the massive selection of plugins out there.

— George

[George]

Hey Kavi,

Hm, that’s odd behavior indeed. Can you run through the troubleshooting steps we have outlined here, and check on this behavior after each step that’s listed here? → https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/testing-for-conflicts/

Let us know what you find!

Thank you,
George

[George]

Hey Mason,

Hm, that’s a bit of a red flag, and I wonder what version of the plugin you’re using? The plugin indeed has /admin-views, though the only file there is a metabox.php file.

The /admin-views subdirectory I was referring to is actually in /the-events-calendar itself, the core plugin – not the files of a ticketing add-on, sorry for not being clear about that!

Let me know if you’re able to find this subdirectory in the core plugin.

Cheers!
George

[George]

Hey Jennifer,

This is indeed possible, the built-in WordPress exporter (Tools > Export) alone should let you export Events, and then Venues separately. You could match Venue IDs to the exported Venues and just grab the city name from that.

You could also run SQL queries to get the specific data you want.

Are either things helpful here?

[George]

Hey Cliff,

Thanks for being cool about the limitations of customizations here – and do stay tuned for the release of the Ticket User Meta add-on, coming soon! It should help a lot with your original question.

Now, as for your other question, you can change those quantity inputs on the left of the tickets, but this is not something related much to The Events Calendar or WooTickets themselves – these inputs are generated by WooCommerce core, as our plugins and add-ons leverage as much of the default eCommerce system as possible.

To be more specific, our own code just calls the woocommerce_quantity_input() function, which generates the inputs you see there with the “0” in them.

The actual HTML for those inputs comes from a WooCommerce template file, in templates/global/quantity-input.php in your WooCommerce plugin files. So, if you just create a theme-override version of this in your theme, and write a “checkbox” input type here instead of text/quantity, the customization is indeed possible.

To learn more about WooCommerce’s template-override system, which is very similar to ours, check out their official documentation here → http://docs.woothemes.com/document/template-structure/

This may take some fiddling around with to get just-right, as the two input types are different, but if you ensure the passed value attribute on the new checkbox input field is saved correctly by WooTickets, this should work fine as far as I can think.

I hope this helps! Play around with this for a bit and save your changes, and be sure to read through any WooCommerce and/or The Events Calendar documentation that might help here.

Cheers,
George

[George]

Hey Thierry,

Weird indeed, but I’m glad it helped regardless! If other issues arise, don’t hesitate to come back at any time – best of luck with your site in the meantime!

Cheers,
George

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