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RichardB
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March 26, 2015 at 7:19 pm
Does Event Espresso integrate with the Woo Diarise theme (mainly the calendar)?
If yes, what plugin version is required?
Is any add-on required?
Is any theme code modification necessary?
Thank you very much.
Richard
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Dean
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March 27, 2015 at 2:38 am
Hi Richard,
We have no formal integration with that theme. Please also note that the Diarise theme was discontinued by Woothemes back in Feb 2014, with support for it ending August 2014.
http://www.woothemes.com/2014/02/themes-cleaning-for-2014/
It’s good practice to use a theme that is still supported, as the theme author can then provide security and bug fixes.
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RichardB
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March 27, 2015 at 6:08 am
The reason I asked was that I saw numerous references to ‘Diarise+EventEspresso working together’ on both WooThemes and EventEspresso websites.
I understand the concerns regarding ‘unsupported themes’, but this is my client’s site and they do not want to change their theme.
If I can’t integrate EventEspresso with the Diarise theme, I would have to look at some other event management plugin.
Thank you very much.
Richard
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Lorenzo Orlando Caum
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March 27, 2015 at 6:17 am
Hi Richard, we have a free version of Event Espresso that you could test with:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/event-espresso-free/
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Lorenzo
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Josh
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March 27, 2015 at 6:40 am
Hi Richard,
It turns out that Event Espresso events can be displayed in the Diarise theme’s calendar. Either Event Espresso 3 or Event Espresso 4 can work, but Event Espresso 4 works better. No additional add-ons are required to make this happen.
It does require modifying the theme a little bit to change it so instead of loading blog posts into the calendar, it loads the events you post using Event Espresso.
I can show you where the modification is made, but I need to dig up an old copy of Diarise from somewhere first.
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RichardB
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March 27, 2015 at 7:05 am
Thank you Josh, that would be great.
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Josh
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March 27, 2015 at 2:28 pm
Hi Richard,
I put together a gist that outlines what to change in the Diarise theme’s events-calendar.php file. You’ll find this file in the /includes folder. Here’s a link to the gist:
https://gist.github.com/joshfeck/da5a4407e66e8d61addc
A few notes:
The modification is for use with Event Espresso 4. It will not work with the version that Lorenzo gave you a link to.
It will work with the decaf version, which you can download for free from here:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/event-espresso-decaf/
The modification adds the espresso_events post type into the query, and grabs the event info (like the event’s primary start date, end date, location). The regular WordPress posts where you enter event dates in the post meta will also display with this modification in place.
One thing to keep in mind, and may be a good thing to discuss with your client depending on what types of events they’re doing, is the Diarise event calendar is limited to one set of start/end dates per event. It’s like a 1 to 1 relationship between a post and a set of start dates. EE4 lets you do more than one set of start/end dates per event/post. It’s something to keep in mind in case they plan on using the multiple datetime feature, because if they do, it’d require a significant refactor of how the Diarise calendar loop through and displays event posts.
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