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Dawne Morison
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August 15, 2013 at 9:32 am
Hello,
I’m a beginning user of WP version 3.6. I’m using Event Espresso 3.1.33.3.P. It was installed about 6 months ago and is not yet live.
I’m having trouble getting colors to appear in the calendar. Under Calender Settings I have enabled CSS settings and Disable Categories is set to NO.
I have Multiple Event Manager installed, and regardless of the shortcode I try, It only links to a form with a space for coupon code and no other information.
Please help!
Thank you,
Jaime
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Josh
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August 15, 2013 at 1:53 pm
Hi Dawne,
Can you check to see if the categories are set to have colors and that the events are assigned to categories.
With the Multi Event Registration add-on, can you let us know what the shortcodes are that you are trying? Also if possible please post links to the calendar page and the Main registration page (which is the page that should have the [ESPRESSO_EVENTS] shortcode on it.
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Dawne Morison
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August 16, 2013 at 1:49 pm
On the colors, yes and yes.
One of the shortcodes I tried was:
[ESPRESSO_CALENDAR event_category_id=”your_category_identifier”]
I’ll have to check on others. I need customers to be able to select multiple dates of events from the same category, put them in a shopping cart, and fill out one registration form at the time of check out. Is this my best solution?
http://www.brightspotplayplace.net/calendar-2/
http://www.brightspotplayplace.net/event-registration/
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Josh
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August 16, 2013 at 3:21 pm
Hi Dawne,
Since the calendar does not add events to the cart, you can use the event list (your second link) or follow this guide to move all the registrations to the cart:
https://eventespresso.com/wiki/multiple-events-registration-use-add-to-cart-link-instead-of-default-registration-form/
The calendar will typically not automatically display category colors if it’s set to display one category of events. There’s a way to manually apply colors with CSS when you’re using the event_category_id parameter though. It’s detailed in this other post and in the documentation:
https://eventespresso.com/topic/any-way-of-having-different-colours-for-events-on-a-single-calendar/#post-53181
https://eventespresso.com/wiki/calendar/#colors
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Dawne Morison
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August 16, 2013 at 3:44 pm
The add to cart link seems best, but if I disable my registration form, will the customer ever have access to it? I have specific questions that need answering.
Also, the calendar colors don’t show in my main calendar page where all categories are displayed.
Thanks!
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Josh
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August 16, 2013 at 4:14 pm
The add to cart link seems best, but if I disable my registration form, will the customer ever have access to it? I have specific questions that need answering.
If they go through the cart, the registration forms display after they select quantities in the cart.
Also, the calendar colors don’t show in my main calendar page where all categories are displayed.
The reasons that this would happen are 1) The events are assigned to more than one category, and the solution for that is to use CSS to style the events on the calendar. or
2) There are enough events in the system to hit a query limit on your server (pulling category, event time, and attendee limits can be an “expensive” query.
You could try disabling the display attendee limit feature in the calendar to test whether that’s the case. If the colors start working after turning off the attendee limit feature, there’s a fix outlined here that we are working on adding to the next version of the calendar:
https://eventespresso.com/topic/calendar-category-colors-2/#post-55288
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Dawne Morison
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August 16, 2013 at 4:32 pm
I do have many events. I’ll bet that is the issue. Thank you for your help, I’m going to try your suggestions.
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Dawne Morison
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August 16, 2013 at 4:34 pm
Also, do you know if there is any way to increase the query limit through a mod to the php.ini or htaccess files?
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Dean
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August 19, 2013 at 1:46 am
Hi,
“any way to increase the query limit through a mod to the php.ini or htaccess files?”
Not that I am aware of, this is normally a hard limit set by the hosting company to keep there servers manageable. As such you would be best contacting your host to discuss upgrading your query limit (which will probably mean upgrading the hosting account to a VPS or dedicated server).
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Dawne Morison
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August 20, 2013 at 3:54 pm
Thank you Dean & Josh, this seems to have fixed my color/calendar issue.
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