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October 13, 2014 at 9:08 pm

Hi Lorenzo, that solved the problem temporarily but would be good not to be limited to 30 days. I tried 45 & 60 days but neither of these worked either.

Our entire events season here is only about 6 months, Oct-April, and entirely focused at w/e’s so quite important we can display more than a month ahead.

Would it difficult to widen our display area?

How can I reduce font size for event names, and control the information being displayed? This will permit me to take up less real estate and make it easier to scroll down.

The large gap between the organiser details and the event info is annoying too, and doesn’t appear in the event window.

I’d like to add the ical link to this template – I found this elsewhere in the forum will it do the trick, or is there more I need to do?

<?php echo apply_filters(‘filter_hook_espresso_display_ical’, (array)$event ); ?>

How important is the location of this within the plugin code?

I’ve some experience with html (a few years ago!), but a complete novice with php!

Thanks
Angus

October 14, 2014 at 2:49 am

Thanks Dean. Sorry, I moved the page since I posted last night 🙁 http://supersportsevents.me/

The 30 days fix made it usable so we’re running with it for now.

I’ve used Chrome’s inspect element tool, and found the CSS I need to access, but my research tells me I need an FTP to access the files, download, edit, and then reload them – correct?

The ical is 50/50 – I inserted the code and the plugin works, but no ical icon is showing.

I was able to use a parameter to change the “band/artist” to “race/event details”, but is there a parameter to change the “Tickets” to “Enter Event”?

Presumably to customise the register button I need to access the CSS too?

Thanks

October 14, 2014 at 9:02 am

When I look in Appearance – Editor the only CSS I see are under Styles:
Stylesheet
(style.css)
Visual Editor RTL Stylesheet
(editor-style-rtl.css)
Visual Editor Stylesheet
(editor-style.css)
RTL Stylesheet
(rtl.css)

I can copy the code from http://supersportsevents.me/wp-content/plugins/espresso-template-calendar-table/style.css?ver=4.0 and paste it in once edited. Presumably the plugin will create the correct heirarchy?

My Custom CSS was last updated 2 years and is not tested with WP4.0 whilst Simple Custom CSS was last updated 4 months ago and is also not tested – any recommendation/suggestion/preference?

iCal code – I used the snippet that I pasted here, and added it in as and where you suggested – nada! No biggie, least of my worries right now!

I’m using BackWPup which seems to work fine to dropbox except always has an issue on the manual run where it is unable to create a WP export file. Once I abort, or let it run its course, and re-run it’s fine – go figure!

To load a new image to the plugin file will require FTP access – correct?

Thanks

October 14, 2014 at 11:55 pm

Thanks for everyone’s assistance, I’m starting to get somewhere.

Using Simple CSS I got nowhere but maybe I’m not getting the start & finish code correct for a CSS. I edited it in Chrome so I could see what I was doing, then copied it into Simple CSS and updated it, but it made no changes. All I want to do is change the font size of the event name!

However, I’ve had more success editing the plugin in directly – changed “Tickets” to “Enter Event” and deleted some of the extraneous info that wasn’t wanted there by removing lines of code. Couple of false starts and deactivations, but at least coding is logical so doesn’t take long to compare with other lines and work out how it should be 🙂

I know this will change once I update a plugin, but they’re not major changes so no biggie to redo after an update.

As for the iCal code – managed to get the word “array” where I want the icon for the iCal link so I know I have it in the correct place, but not sure where to go next. Read the intro to the plugin and made some changes to the code, but obviously having never used php before I am at a loss 🙂

Here’s the snippet that refers to the day, date, month image in the left column http://supersportsevents.me/ with my line of code – <?php echo apply_filters(‘filter_hook_display_ical_espresso_custom_template_calendar_table’, (array)$event); ?> – added near the bottom.

<?php } else { ?>
<td class=”td-date-holder”><div class=”dater”>
<div class=”cal-day-title”><?php echo event_date_display($event->start_date, “l”); ?></div>
<div class=”cal-day-num”><?php echo event_date_display($event->start_date, “j”); ?></div>
<div><span><?php echo event_date_display($event->start_date, “M”); ?></span></div>
<?php echo apply_filters(‘filter_hook_display_ical_espresso_custom_template_calendar_table’, (array)$event); ?>
<?php } ?>
</div>
</td>

I love learning new stuff 🙂 Are there any good free guides online that will help me get my head around the basics?

Thank you

October 15, 2014 at 5:00 am

Dean, I added the extra code in because of this at the top of the plugin:
//The end of the action name (example: “action_hook_espresso_custom_template_”) should match the name of the template. In this example, the last part the action name is “calendar-table”,
add_action(‘action_hook_espresso_custom_template_calendar-table’,’espresso_custom_template_calendar_table’);

I’ve added your snippet only and now all I get is it showing in plain text on the webpage!

This is the section in total:
</div></td>
<?php } else { ?>
<td class=”td-date-holder”><div class=”dater”>
<div class=”cal-day-title”><?php echo event_date_display($event->start_date, “l”); ?></div>
<div class=”cal-day-num”><?php echo event_date_display($event->start_date, “j”); ?></div>
<div><span><?php echo event_date_display($event->start_date, “M”); ?></span></div>
< ?php echo apply_filters(‘filter_hook_espresso_display_ical’, (array)$event ); ?>
<?php } ?>
</div>
</td>

I figure I’ve pasted it incorrectly and ruined the code.

CSS is now sorted – huge thanks 🙂

October 15, 2014 at 5:19 am

Now I’m back to it only saying “array” on the web page! Since I’ve sorted the CSS it fits better under price!

http://supersportsevents.me/

<p>
<?php _e(‘When:’, ‘event_espresso’); ?>
<?php echo event_date_display($event->start_date); ?><br />
<?php _e(‘Where:’, ‘event_espresso’); ?>
<?php echo stripslashes_deep($event->venue_name); ?><br />
<?php _e(‘Price: ‘, ‘event_espresso’); ?>
<?php echo $org_options[‘currency_symbol’].$event->event_cost; ?><br />
<?php echo apply_filters(‘filter_hook_espresso_display_ical’, (array)$event ); ?></p>

Thanks

October 15, 2014 at 7:29 am

AFAIK, I only downloaded them in the last 203 days since I paid up for my licence 🙂

OK, pastebin done, public paste, never expiring, called “SSEME1 – 151014”

Thanks

October 15, 2014 at 8:04 pm

Meant 2-3 days 🙂

http://pastebin.com/ic9bc5Dm

SSEME1 – 151014

October 16, 2014 at 6:13 am

Not sure how that happened!

Anyway, your code works, bonus! – will compare with mine to see what happened. Job done 🙂

Many thanks