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December 12, 2017 at 6:32 pm

Hi qtwebhost,

The demo there is using the twentysixteen WordPress theme. You’ll get the same layout and styling if you download and activate that theme. The borders, table layout, and styling that you’re asking about are all controlled by the theme in this case.

The image is set as the event’s featured image, and the twenty sixteen theme just outputs it at the top of the event post. Then, to get the text before the event listing, you can go to Event Espresso > Events > Templates and change the “Use Custom Display Order” option to Yes. Then you drag the Event Description to the top of the ordered list. The settings will look like this:

https://slack-files.com/T02SY781D-F8ELDVD38-a9b82ba300

December 15, 2017 at 8:22 am

Hi there,

This is a very interesting theme in that it doesn’t seem like the author of the theme author planned on the users of the theme installing plugins that add custom post types.

Here’s how to fix this oversight:

1) Open up the child theme folder and add a partials folder
2) Open the partials folder and add a content folder; You should now have this directory structure: wp-content/themes/pearl-child/partials/content/
3) Copy the single.php file from the parent theme’s /partials/content/ folder into your child theme’s /partials/content folder
4) Open the new file in an editor, and look for this block of code starting on line 16:

/*If attachment - like post*/
if($post_type == 'attachment') {
	$post_type = 'post';
	$sidebar_position = 'full';
}

5) Add this code after the above:

$ee_post_types = array(
    'espresso_events', 
    'espresso_venues', 
    'espresso_people',
    // add other custom post types you might use here
);
if(in_array($post_type, $ee_post_types)) {
    $post_type = 'post';
    $sidebar_position = 'full';
}

6) Save the changes. You should now see content on the Event Espresso event pages now.
7) Contact the theme author and ask them to fix their theme to allow displaying custom post types. The above steps shouldn’t be necessary.