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July 23, 2015 at 3:34 am

Hi,

Is the Booking page an actual page?

According to the theme author Demo page, there should be an option for a sidebar. This could be in the theme settings or it could be in the Page Attributes section of the Page editor (screenshot http://take.ms/guv3T)

July 23, 2015 at 7:03 am

Could you send me a copy of the theme please? I’d like to take a look at how this is loading.

If so please use support[at]eventespresso.com

It looks like you have changed the /events/ slug to /booking/ which means the booking ‘page’ is not being used.

The /events/ ‘page’ (which in your case is now /booking/) is actually an archive of Event Espresso events, so your theme should be loading up the archive template for that output. The page slug may be the same, but the archive is taking priority, so changes being made to the booking ‘page’ are not shown on the front end (because its not the page that is loading)

July 23, 2015 at 3:31 pm

Hi Declan,

I’ve been looking over this and the reason the /booking/ page has no containers is the template files don’t have any.

For example, currently the archive-espresso_events.php template file (which is used for /booking/) contains:

        
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Which is what is being displayed on the page currently, the site header, the slider header, a sidebar and the EE event content.

So to fix the booking page I copied your page.php template, slightly modified it to always load the ‘Booking’ sidebar and removed some irrelevant details. I’ve uploaded that here:

I then made a similar change to the single-espresso_events.php template.

I’ve uploaded the files here – http://take.ms/qk2Yo

Please remove ALL of the previous template files from the guide posted by Lorenzo.

So create a backup of the current theme, then remove all of the template files that contain ‘espresso’ in the name from within the root directory.

Then copy the 3 template files from above into the theme directory and retest your events page, does it now work as expected?

July 23, 2015 at 4:57 pm

I’ve done this withing the themes folder… also delete all template files from the event espresso folder in the plugin section?

No, only the files within the theme.

also, no link to download the “page.php” template?

Apologies I didn’t explain that well, I copied your page.php into the template specifically for the EE events which archive-espresso_events.php.

Also similar with single-espresso_events.php

There’s no download for page.php as that’s already part of your theme that I based the new files on.

so far, we’re off to a good start

Great 🙂

July 23, 2015 at 6:00 pm

Hi Declan, Tony used some existing templates on your site and created new versions for Event Espresso 4 to use.

Event Espresso should not affect the layout or styling for other pages or posts. If you temporarily deactivate Event Espresso 4, does the layout change for the blog posts?

Please go ahead and create a new support post with any new questions and we’ll get those answered for you:

https://eventespresso.com/support/forums/

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Lorenzo

July 24, 2015 at 4:07 am

To explain a little, the problem with the EE event listing is due to how your theme handles archive pages.

You initially mentioned the /booking/ page not showing any sidebar, that’s because your theme loaded an archive.php template that only included a ‘Archive/Search’ sidebar that only used the global settings within your theme.

Usually we require users to purchase a support token (or more if required) to work through theme conflicts such as these as it isn’t an issue with Event Espresso itself, but the strange ways themes come up with displaying data. However installing the starter templates mentioned above actually caused a couple of further problems with how your theme would be displayed EE data, so on this occasion it investigated further.

Because the EE event listing is an archive, ‘pages’ with the same slug are ignored, the archive is loaded before the page. This means that editing your ‘booking page’ actually has no effect at all on that display.

Usually the fix is to create custom templates based on your sites archive.php and single.php files, but your theme is doing some strange things with those and you want the output to be similar to page.php….

So what I did was create ‘archive-espresso_events.php’ base on page.php (which calls a template part within ‘\templates\parts’ called content-page.php

This contains all of the containers used to display the data as you wanted, but also expects to setup a page, meaning the sidebar is set using post_meta (which doesn’t exist) so I hardcoded the page to load the ‘booking’ sidebar and swapped out the loop to use the loop-espresso_events.php file to display the events.

The bet way to see this is by comparing archive-espresso_events.php and content-page.php to see what has changed.

I then did almost the exact same with single-espresso_events.php to ensure single events displayed as expected.

Now for the News page, unfortunately I don’t any reason for this at all, I’m assuming that again the theme is doing something very strange to get that page to load. So when EE4 is activated the theme is ‘doing its thing’ but actually including EE events within its search which could be causing problems.

The first thing I would check is what template that page is using to display. You can do this using the ‘What the file‘ plugin (it add output to the WP Admin bar when you load the page so you can view which template is in use)

Which templates are in use?

July 24, 2015 at 7:38 am

I’ve just gone into the .index file and added the sidebar (copying your code from archive-espresso_events.php) Do i almost want to copy the pages you’ve sorted but remove the evnentespresso info and replace to show the bog bit?

You don’t want to edit the template files like that.

index.php will be used to output multiple different sections of your site. I just wanted to check which template was being used to load the page.

Was /news/ a standard page create by yourself?

July 27, 2015 at 10:04 am

Hi Declan,

Apologies for the delay getting back to you.

Looking at your news page it looks like you’ve fixed the view, can I ask what you did to fix it?