[nakturnal]

Is there a better way to export / import events than using the WordPress export option? I recall reading that Tribe has an events export option in the works but I didn’t see anything in the new version. I have the same issue – when I export via WP’s export then import them to a different database events are listed every day / multiple times. This would be a fantastic tutorial, feature to be added in an update, or additional plugin to work with the Events Calendar. Thanks!

[nakturnal]

Hi Rob, I was hoping to get some response on her first but I am going to reach out to him tonight. He followed up with me during our emails and sounds like a great resource. I’ll let you know how everything works out with it and hopefully will be able to post the solutions to the problems on here for anyone with similar issues.

Thanks!

[nakturnal]

Thanks Rob; doesn’t look like I’m getting any response about any of the above issues. Bump this to see if anyone can help.

Thanks!

[nakturnal]

Hi Joey,

So with the events from yesterday still showing up I have also tried many solutions but am still unsuccessful. I was playing with the Multi-day Cut-off in the settings quite a bit and it didn’t do the trick. I have it set for 4AM right now but it shows events that are on the previous day about 24hrs back.

I added a little code to see what time the site was looking at right above the loop in List.php. I added all of the extras to see the timezone and the full time format and the result was puzzling.

Added this: echo date(‘F j, Y, g:i a – T – r’);

This showed UTC time – which is 5 hours ahead of what I have set on the General Settings on the site (New York time). I’m not sure if that is the correct time that the site is loading but that would make since to why it is loading dates incorrectly. The puzzling thing about it is that the UTC time is 5 hours ahead and the events are loading from almost 24hrs behind.

I haven’t updated to the newest version of ECP just yet – do you think that may solve this issue? When I update the “events” folder in my theme doesn’t change, correct? Would I have to manually go through all of the code and update the additions / changes I have made for this particular site?

I appreciate your help!! This situation is driving me crazy and I have spent way too many hours pouring over code and looking for solutions. The plugin is great and your help is invaluable – thanks again!

~Nak

[nakturnal]

Hi guys,

I just got back from vacation and have started back in trying to figure out these problems. I’ll answer each problm separately so they stay organized.

Jonah, I tried adding that code above the loop in List.php but it did something peculiar. All of the events after the first one showed no thumbnail and all of the event’s dates changed to the first event’s date. So I tried going back to the original code you supplied for me and was looking into using the conditional statement “is_active_widget” but after messing with various If statements and trying to figure out the best way to separate the widget and the list’s loop, I was still unsuccessful.

Could you do a PasteBin with the code that you have above in the actual List.php code? Maybe I misunderstood and added it incorrectly or something. I feel like it was soooo close but I just couldn’t figure it out yet.

I appreciate your assistance!!

[nakturnal]

Hey, sorry I posted something and then just disappeared. I’m glad they were able to help you out!

I recall when I looked at your link a while back the large image that was appearing was given a thumbnail class, hence the CSS suggestion. It looks like Tribe’s crew came up with a more efficient way though! Cheers!

[nakturnal]

Thank you so much! I appreciate the dedication to my issue!

[nakturnal]

The first issue I responded about was to have a separate loop for the Upcoming Events page so it displayed more events than the homepage loop. Currently there are only 5 and I would like to get the events to show 10 and the homepage/events widget to stay at 5.

Here’s the code that I got from Jonah originally: http://pastebin.com/SwzrSSe9

This issue would be great to figure out but the multi-day one is more important.

Thank you very much for the help!!

[nakturnal]

Oh holy cow, sorry about that! I guess I had a couple issues on here and just replied to the last one I posted instead of looking at the post (trying to do too much multi-tasking).

Ok, so what I was trying to get at with the PasteBin is to have an event that is on multiple days to show the Time, Start Date, and End Date. While the events that are on only one day (though they may end at 2a or 3a) to only show the Time and Start Date.

That way I don’t have to have the start and end date on every event. Currently I just have the Start Date so on a multi-day event it looks like it happened last week but yet it is still going on for another couple days (it only shows the Start Date).

So pretty much I would like to have the events that span over multiple days to have a slightly different code so it is easy to read and understand for the end user. For an event that only goes from say, Friday night at 9p until Saturday morning at 2a then they just need to know it starts on Friday and the “Time” section will have the ending time of 2a in it. Then for an event that goes from Friday at 5p until next Thursday at 10p I would like to have it show the Start Date and End Date along with the times.

Multi-Day event would look like:
Start Date: Monday, January 23rd, 2012 @ 5pm
End Date: Tuesday, January 31st, 2012 @ 10pm

One day event would look like:
Time: 9p – 2a
Date: Monday, January 23rd, 2012

And for now if there are different times for different days that a multi-day event has then we can add it into the description.

Is that more clear? Sorry about the confusion! The site I’m working on has a lot of events and they want to add a lot more on going events but I had to tackle this issue before they could do so. I greatly appreciate the help! Let me know if this doesn’t make sense, I’ll be around all evening.

Thanks!!!

[nakturnal]

Hi Joey,

Thanks for the response and looking into this! I’ll answer all your questions and I attached a screenshot of what I’m trying to do, as well.

1. I would like ONLY the Events Listing loop to display 10 posts. When I added this code it changed the Widget’s listing to 10 posts, as well, which is not what I want. 5 posts in the widget and 10 on the Upcoming Events listing. I tried coming up with an If statement to see if the loop was a Widget or not but I lack the skills.

2. The widget and the upcoming events listing both change to display 10 posts instead of just the upcoming events. Even if I change the widget’s posts to 5 on the admin control panel the code just overwrites it and makes it list 10.

3. http://www.nakyouout.com/multiple-loops.jpg

link to the screenshot if the above link does not work: http://www.nakyouout.com/multiple-loops.jpg

Let me know if that all makes sense! Thank you very much!

[nakturnal]

Ok, so for some reason the previous day displaying problem still exists. I’m not sure why on Thursday that Wednesday’s events did not show up but now it being Sunday, Saturday is still showing up.

This is a top priority for me to fix. I am still having no luck figuring out a solution. I’m not sure if there is another date that is on the site that it is pulling from in order for it to not remove the event on the following day.

Maybe it has some connection with my other issue (https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/multiday-event-cutoff/page/2/) where all of the events are being listed as multi-day? Maybe solving one will take care of both?

Again, I appreciate the assistance on this. It’s driving me crazy and my client, Nakturnal, is also getting frustrated. They are an event based website (lots of people look to their site for upcoming events in the city) so it is a major problem to show events that are already past. Please help as soon as you can, thanks a million!!!

[nakturnal]

NOt quite. The update was made prior to Yesterday’s events still being listed on the Current Events page. I’m not sure if someone on your team fixed something (I email Jonah FTP and WP Admin info a couple weeks ago) or if something else happened that I was unaware of. I tried many things to fix it and maybe just got lucky? But I think it may have been someone on your team? Not sure but for now it is working as it should!

As for the other issue with having two loops (one on the homepage for recent posts and one on the events page for the upcoming events) – Jonah’s code worked great to get more events listed on the page. The problem is that it also made the Widget listed events show the same amount. So if I made the main listing have 20 posts then the widget would to the same (it overrides the options chosen in the widget admin section). I tried figuring out a way to separate them via If statements and some coding but no luck. This is a high priority for us so we can list as many events as possible on the Upcoming Events page because there are a lot (we only have 5 on there now and sometimes there are 5-10 in one night alone).

Appreciate the assistance thus far!! I hope someone can help with the multiple loops thing.

Thanks!!

[nakturnal]

Oops, sorry, the code didn’t paste very nicely. No worries!

http://pastebin.com/nKgdDD9u

Thanks again!

[nakturnal]

Hi there, I’m having some issues with my Events List displaying regular events as a multi-day event. I was hoping to change have the multi-day events display the Start Date (just the day and date – time is in a separate field) and the End Date while the single day events (events ending before 4a – a lot of club/parties are listed) will only list the Start Date.

I chopped up the code that was in the list.php document a bit to get the desired results but currently even events that end at 11pm will show the multi-day code. Below is what I have currently:

<td class="tribe-events-event-meta-value" itemprop="startDate" content=""> —

<td class="tribe-events-event-meta-value multi" itemprop="endDate" content="">

<td class="tribe-events-event-meta-value notmulti" itemprop="startDate" content="">


My apologize if this is something simple I’m overlooking, thank you for any assistance!!

[nakturnal]

Also – for the multiple loops – I tried figuring out how to separate the widget and the list but to no avail. tribe_is_day seems to be used in both codes and so if I add the code above that Jonah provided (which works great!) then the widget calendar and the list calendar will display the same amount of posts. Eventually, I would like to have the widgets only display 5 events and the list show 10-15. I’ll keep working at it, thank you much for your feedback!

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