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scaldwell
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June 15, 2015 at 3:43 pm
Following the instructions posted here. I was able to modify RT Theme 18 and now have a template choice that gives me a sidebar (Yay!) But do I have to go in to each and every event now and select it? Is there a way to bulk edit that? We’ve got a ton of events we’ll have to manually change if not.
Thanks,
Shelly
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Josh
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June 15, 2015 at 5:15 pm
Hi Shelly,
The RT Theme 18 is does some really tricky things with sidebars. The way forward may be to put together a little custom function. Can you let me know which type of sidebar you got to load into the events? ie was it a sidebar for pages or a sidebar for single posts? This will help me come up with a solution.
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scaldwell
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June 15, 2015 at 6:10 pm
Actually I don’t know. I had someone else do it over the weekend following the instructions that Lorenzo sent me via email. I’ll attach them:
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Install revised version of Theme RT 18
Here is a revised copy of the theme:
http://cl.ly/2f3G0S42141N/download/rttheme18.zip
Alternative link: http://cl.ly/203p3T1g0H3E/download/rttheme18.zip
Backup your website. (I have already taken a backup of the site)
Then deactivate your theme via your WordPress dashboard and remove it. Then upload and activate the theme above.
Next, go to WP-admin –> RT Theme 18 –> Template Builder.
Then download the file above and upload the template (http://cl.ly/image/24020n321q2g):
http://cl.ly/text/0H2h0y2C193S/download/Templates%2015-May-14-18-52-45.txt
Alternative link: http://cl.ly/text/0w0g142Q0Q2o/download/Templates%2015-May-14-18-52-45.txt
Next, go to Event Espresso –> Events. Now click on one of your events. Along the right side, you should see a new template option selector:
http://cl.ly/image/0H3S0Q1u0E21
Select the new theme template that you just imported. Then save changes.
You should then see your layout with content + a right sidebar:
http://cl.ly/image/2i0I2N1R3e3H
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As a side note, as soon as this was done, my wonderful customization of the Status Banner that I achieved with your guidance (adding some great code to the functions.php in my child theme) stopped working. Did this change somehow make the browser skip looking for a functions.php in the child theme folder?
Thanks again for you help!
Shelly
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Josh
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June 15, 2015 at 7:03 pm
No, if you activated the new theme, your child theme will be automatically deactivated. So you’ll need to reactivate the child theme.
You can make it so all posts (including events) have a sidebar by going into the RT theme options ( /wp-admin/admin.php?page=rt_general_options ) and select Content + Right Sidebar, then save.
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scaldwell
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June 16, 2015 at 9:50 am
You are my HERO! I’m such a dork. My brain is obviously not connecting the dots very well. Thank you again Josh!
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scaldwell
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June 16, 2015 at 9:54 am
Ha! I spoke too soon. That didn’t work. Looks like the new template is assigned at the event level.
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Josh
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June 16, 2015 at 12:15 pm
I tried the copy of the theme that Lorenzo sent and it didn’t seem to matter. The sidebar displays regardless of what was set in the event editor so long as you set the widgets for the common sidebar.
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