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Hello Leland, I am getting someone with more expertise and technical knowledge to help you out. I’m tempted to say you need to hack the code, but just in case I thought I’d see if there is a way to do this in a theme file. Have you checked out our tutorials page? There is a template over-rides tutorial in there, and tons of stuff that would probably lead you in the right direction on how to do this, even if it does involve a hack: https://theeventscalendar.com/the-events-calendar-for-wordpress-tutorials/
Hi Wayne,
I think the easiest way to do this would be to just link to the categories directly using WordPress menus or whatever way you’re directing users to those pages.That being said, if you’d rather do some on-hand coding, here are tutorials that may help you:
https://theeventscalendar.com/list-categories-above-calendar-view-for-quick-frontend-filtering/
Actually, there are tons of tutorials that may help you here: https://theeventscalendar.com/the-events-calendar-for-wordpress-tutorials/
Let me know if you find something that works!
We also have technical documentation here: https://theeventscalendar.com/support/documentation
Hello Michael,
Since this is a customization, we can’t really do much to help out, but I can lead you to our technical documentation page which will probably have what you’re looking for: https://theeventscalendar.com/support/documentation
Also, at our Tutorials page, we have an entire section on Queries, Categories, Tags & Event Loops. I know you said you already know how to do this, but perhaps one of these will shed light on what you’re trying to do (for example “Category-based filters on calendar view” or the general “Queries and pagination” tutorial):
https://theeventscalendar.com/the-events-calendar-for-wordpress-tutorials/
Let me know if this helps!
Hello Ken,
Can I ask what you’re trying to accomplish? Is there a reason you can’t set the permalinks back to “postname”? That might work.
If you’re trying to integrate the blog categories with your event categories this tutorial might help: https://theeventscalendar.com/integrating-wordpress-categories-tags-with-your-events/
We also have a list of tutorials here, and I’m hoping one of them is what you are looking for: https://theeventscalendar.com/the-events-calendar-for-wordpress-tutorials/
If the events don’t show up in the feed where they are supposed to be, and you haven’t done modifications to the plugin, then something is up, and that should be addressed.
Sorry if I’m not being very helpful 🙁
Hello Roberto, it looks like this may be a theme customization issue. We don’t normally offer help with that unless it’s a simple fix. If your site works with the latest Twenty Eleven theme on the latest version of WordPress, that would be the strongest test to make sure it is running at its best standard. If a theme breaks it, there is something there that would need to be addressed.
I would suggest you take a look at our Themer’s guide here: https://theeventscalendar.com/themers-guide-to-the-events-calendar/ – it may have some pointers.
We also have a guide to integrating the Events Calendar with the Genesis framework. While you may not be on Genesis, the tutorial gives a lot of insight and sheds light on principles that could apply to other theme frameworks as well: https://theeventscalendar.com/tutorial-integrating-the-events-calendar-w-genesis/
We also have our technical documentation here: https://theeventscalendar.com/support/documentation
If you are able to do some digging to get us a more specific problem, show us what tests you’ve tried, code that you’ve found you think is conflicting, I may be able to get a developer to point you in a closer direction. But at the moment this is quite broad, and it could take a long time to find out the reason it’s not working.
Sorry!
Hello Enio, we normally release around the beginning of each month, but can’t guarantee a date, sorry 🙁
Hi Danny! It would be awesome if you could post here what you did to make this change, since I’m sure other users will find it useful 🙂 We’d also love to see your site in our showcase!
Ah I see. Ok, I will see if someone is available to help you, if it’s a quick fix. It is a customization request though, so no guarantees, very sorry 🙁
Hello Michelle, this may be a customization issue which we can’t really support but I am going to see if Paul can chime in, no guarantees though 🙁
Hello Davie,
I’ll try to answer your questions best I can:
1) You can create categories of events, give each category a colour using either this tutorial: https://theeventscalendar.com/coloring-your-category-events/ or a new plugin that one of our more avid users created. Not sure if it’s released, but if it is not yet, it will be very, very soon.
2) Our sidebar widget has a filter that can show events only from one category yes. It’s called the “Events List Advanced Widget.”
3) You would probably have to custom code the disclaimer text, but it shouldn’t be hard for a developer to do it. You can post on our forum to see if anyone wants to take on the job, if you do not have the in-house capabilities to do it.
4) Yes you can have a form, but you may want to set things up so that you approve events before they are published. You can set it up so that logged in users can only submit events, but yes, there is an “anonymous” submission mode.
5) The form is set up to take in the fields that are in the calendar itself, and any “Additional fields” you have set up in your own site (it’s a setting we have where you can for instance, have a customized form field that says “food allergies” and people have to enter their food allergies)
The disclaimer would probably have to be custom coded in 🙁 But really, it should not be hard for any developer who is familiar with WordPress.
6) Not sure exactly what you mean by menu titles, but if you are referring to your navigation menus, yes, you can do this using WordPress menus, by changing the menu’s “label.”
We have settings where you can change urls and things, but some other parts may require a bit of code hacking. But again, something like a title shouldn’t be a hard fix for a developer.
Hello Brian (and thanks Andy!)
Andy gave good answers. I just want to make sure you are following the instructions here to set up your changes in your child theme folder so that you don’t lose the changes upon update: https://theeventscalendar.com/themers-guide-to-the-events-calendar/
Let us know if Andy’s suggestions work for you!
Just a little update, our developers are looking at it now and trying to find out if it was designed like that to solve another issue, or if it can just be changed in a future release as per Andy’s suggestion. Will keep you posted!
Hi Danny, I was talking to another support rep who noticed your question. We were wondering if you meant you wanted to see the 31st of the previous month, and the 1st of the next month, in the empty spaces of the current calendar month? I might have just not understood…
If so, that would be a customization request, which we can’t really support, but the links I gave you should help you find what you’re looking for!
Hello Joe,
We do have a lot of feature requests, enough to probably last us a year to work on, in addition to continual upgrading of the core files. If you only read through the many forum posts here on the support forum, and on .org, you’d get a pretty quick idea that supporting an maintaining a plugin is a lot of work. You should see how many staff members we have working on all this stuff too! 🙂 There are five of us JUST doing support – not even coding the actual plugin and releasing updates to the software.It’s surprising (I found anyway, when I crossed over to the support side of things), how many people and man hours it takes to execute something that seems so simple to a front-end user. Even theme integration with other prominent themes out there, just so the calendar looks good right out of the box, can take hours and hours of coordination with external organizations, not to mention the coding work that has to be done by multiple developers at both companies. So you can appreciate that something like an automated tweet, which can probably be handled by a free plugin in the WordPress repository, may not make it to the top of our list for a while 🙁
That being said, why don’t you try the plugin I suggested. If it works, it would solve the question for the people that are also wondering 🙂
