[Jonah]

Hey Ken,

It looks like the file name is set in /wp-content/plugins/events-calendar-pro/events-calendar-pro.php on line 488, but you didn’t hear it from me 🙂

I’ll put in a request to be able to filter the name!

Cheers,
Jonah

[Jonah]

Hi everybody, ok I discovered that some change we made to the core view for the widget reintroduced some code that doesn’t respond to the checkbox setting to not show the end date. I’m going to create a ticket to get this fixed ASAP but for now here’s what you can do:

Make a copy of /wp-content/plugins/events-calendar-pro/views/events-advanced-list-load-widget-display.php and place in an ‘events’ folder in your theme. Then find lines 46-54 that look like this:

echo tribe_get_start_date( $post->ID );

if( tribe_is_multiday( $post->ID ) || !$event->AllDay ) {
echo ' –
'. tribe_get_end_date($post->ID);
}

if( $event->AllDay ) {
echo ' ('.__('All Day','tribe-events-calendar').')';
}

…and replace with this:

echo __('Starts', 'tribe-events-calendar-pro') . ': ';
echo tribe_get_start_date( $post->ID, $start );

if($event->AllDay && $start) {
echo ' ('.__('All Day','tribe-events-calendar-pro').')';
echo tribe_get_end_date($post->ID);
} else {
if ( $end && $event->EndDate != '') {
echo '
' . __('Ends', 'tribe-events-calendar-pro') . ': ';
echo tribe_get_end_date($post->ID);
}
}

That should enable the setting in the widget to take effect again but if you’re still having issues, let me know.

Regards,
Jonah

[Jonah]

Jamie, have you been able to recreate this with any other events or even by recreating the same one on different days? I’m not seeing the same thing happening on my end adding the same date/recurrence criteria and am thinking there must be something else causing the issue.

– Jonah

[Jonah]

Hi Jamie,

Yikes, thanks for doing that. I’m going to test some things out on my end to see if I can recreate. I’ll post back soon.

– Jonah

[Jonah]

Hi Jamie,

Many themes out there use very complex code and hook into many core WordPress functions, modifying things a great deal and potentially causing conflicts like this with queries. That is why we ask that you revert to the Twenty Eleven theme because we test our plugin rigorously on this theme to ensure there are no problems like this. Please download and install the theme and try it out and let me know what you find.

Thanks,
Jonah

[Jonah]

Hi Aaron,

That’s definitely possible but it’s going to require a lot more than we’re going to be able to assist you with. There’s two main components to making customizations, there’s the CSS and then the PHP. You only need to mess with the PHP when you need to change the way or type of information being displayed.

For example, grouping multiple events on a specific day like in this example. Our widget doesn’t do that, so you’d need to rewrite some of the PHP to customize the query. Basically, all of the views template files that you can do this for are located in /wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/views/ (for the base plugin) or /wp-content/plugins/events-calendar-pro/views/ (for the PRO plugin).

To make changes to the PHP or HTML in any of them, just make a copy of the file you want to modify and place in an ‘events’ folder in your theme. You can find an overview of all of our views here: https://theeventscalendar.com/support/documentation/events-calendar-themers-guide/

To make changes to the CSS, I would recommend just adding CSS to your themes style.css file and overriding existing styles by applying a higher specificity: http://css-tricks.com/specifics-on-css-specificity/

Hopefully that points you in the right direction and good luck!

Cheers,
Jonah

[Jonah]

Hi Bonnie,

Whenever updating WordPress or plugins you should always backup all files so you can revert back just in case. I would also suggest having everything under version control and carefully comparing changes in an update with the changes you made. It is also a good idea to have a local or remote development environment where you can run updates and deploy new changes to test things out without affecting your live website. These are all standard best practices for any website when doing updates or deployments.

As far as specific customizations, I would have no way of telling you which files to backup because only you would know which specific files you edited. I can tell you that any plugin overrides in the ‘events’ folder in your theme will never be touched. If you had made any changes to the core plugin files, the CSS or the views templates, they would be overwritten when you update. So it could be that you had customizations in these files that were then overwritten.

Another possibility is that your CSS customizations are still in place but need to be modified to be made more specific and applied to the elements they need to be applied to. What I am talking about is CSS specificity and you can read more about it here: http://css-tricks.com/specifics-on-css-specificity/

Sorry that you lost your customizations. Hopefully this helps and please post more information about specific changes you made (including what file(s) were changes, code samples, etc.) that you are no longer seeing if you’d like me to take a closer look.

Regards,
Jonah

[Jonah]

Hi Jamie,

That is strange behavior indeed! Just to confirm, you have deactivated all other plugins to rule out another plugin conflicting with ours? And, reverted to the Twenty Eleven theme?

Thanks,
Jonah

[Jonah]

Hi Ken,

Unfortunately there is no current way to change the file name unless you modify the core files.

Regards,
Jonah

[Jonah]

Hi Aaron,

I won’t be able to walk you through all the steps and possibilities but I should be able to give you a little more direction to get you pointed in the right direction.

What sort of customization are you looking to do?

Thanks,
Jonah

[Jonah]

Hi Goran,

Do you have a lot of events? What hosting do you use?

– Jonah

[Jonah]

Ok thanks Melissa. Can you try deactivating all other plugins and/or reverting to the Twenty Eleven theme to see if that changes anything? I’m unable to reproduce this locally so I’m trying to figure out what the issue can be.

Thanks,
Jonah

[Jonah]

Hi Melissa,

Thanks for the report. Ok, can I have you both try removing the widget and re-adding a fresh one and reconfiguring it to see if that helps?

Thanks,
Jonah

[Jonah]

Hi Andrea,

Well if you didn’t make any customizations to the widget I wonder what changed. I don’t think we made any changes to the widget itself. Did the settings change for the widget once the plugin had been deactivated? Do you just need to change the settings in the widget? Have you unchecked the End Date option in the settings for that widget instance?

– Jonah

[Jonah]

Hi Goran,

Have you tried a caching plugin like WP Super Cache or W3 Total Cache?

– Jonah

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