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June 22, 2014 at 5:42 pm

Hello,

Do you have the [ESPRESSO_EVENTS] shortcode in use on your site? Could you also check the other WordPress pages with EE shortcodes?

You can do this through WordPress admin –> Event Espresso –> General Settings –> Pages.

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Lorenzo

June 22, 2014 at 8:37 pm

That won’t work as expected so we’ll need to get that shortcode restored — otherwise your registrations won’t work as expected.

The [ESPRESSO_EVENTS] should not be replaced by any other shortcodes.

If you do replace it, then it needs to be added to another WordPress page and then you need to select this new page in the Event Espresso –> General Settings –> Page settings area.

http://cl.ly/image/2t182W1A0t1V

Let us know if these steps fix the broken register link.

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Lorenzo

June 24, 2014 at 4:09 am

Hi John,

You can enable the descriptions within Event Espresso -> Template Settings. ‘Display short descriptions in the event listings?’

However to display short descriptions you’ll need to insert the ‘More’ tag within the event description where you you like the text to stop. For example I’ve inserted the word ‘HERE’ to reference and than added the More tag (http://take.ms/TQPT6)

From the event list you can see the test stops at the More tag (using ‘Here’ to show that is actually where it stops) – http://take.ms/dNgnG

However this would need to be done for all of the events manually, the ‘Read More’ link is also not output as the event display already contains 2 links to the event (or 3 if using MER), the event title and the register now button.

Although [ESPRESSO_EVENTS] is a required shortcode and must be included within the page specified within Event Espresso -> General Settings -> Page Settings. Main registration page. You could hide that page from the navigation menu and use a page containing the Calendar Table to display your events if you prefer.

This would simply involve creating a new page, inserting your original EVENT_CUSTOM_VIEW shortcode and using that page for your event listing. The calendar table will basically link back to the page containing ESPRESSO_EVENTS when the user clicks the specific event they chose to register for.

Does that help?

June 25, 2014 at 3:10 am

You’ll need to edit the template to do so but yes its possible.

If you open up espresso-template-calendar-table\index.php add this at around line 86.

if($open_spots > 1) {
	$params = array(
	//REQUIRED, the id of the event that needs to be added to the cart
	'event_id' => $event->id,
	//REQUIRED, Anchor of the link, can use text or image
	'anchor' => __("Add to Cart", 'event_espresso'),
	//'anchor' => '<img src="' . WP_PLUGIN_URL. "/".plugin_basename(dirname(__FILE__)) .'/add_to_cart.png" />',
	//REQUIRED, the event name for the event to be added to the cart
	'event_name' => $event->event_name,
	//OPTIONAL, will place this term before the link
	//'separator' => __(" or ", 'event_espresso')
	);
	$cart_link = event_espresso_cart_link($params);
} else {
	$cart_link = '';
}

Then look the line that the $live_button variable is echo’d to the page (now around line 155) you’ll find this:

<td class="td-event-register"><?php echo $live_button ?></td>

Change that to:

<td class="td-event-register"><?php echo $live_button ?><span><?php echo $cart_link ?></span></td>

Please note this is just a basic example, you’ll likely want to apply some styling to the link or create an image and use that in place of the regular ‘Add to cart’ text.

An example of how to use an image for the anchor is already included within the code:

//'anchor' => '<img src="' . WP_PLUGIN_URL. "/".plugin_basename(dirname(__FILE__)) .'/add_to_cart.png" />',

That would look within espresso-template-calendar-table directory for a file called add_to_cart.png.