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December 20, 2012 at 3:42 am

Dear Dean
I have tried to follow your instructions, however, I have a few questions. I don’t seem to understand some basic things (and I am sorry if these questions seem silly or obvious to you…. to me they are little Mount Everests right now…).

I have templates in the folder “Plugins/Event Espresso/Templates”. These, so I assume, are the new templates, the ones that came with the update. When I am on the dashboard of the admin of WordPress and click on Plugins/Editor, that’s the templates I get when I choose “Event Espresso”. Is this right? So if for example, I change the line 42 on the template: registration_page_display, it will change it on my website, but what happens when you update the plugin next time? Will it not overwrite this?

My old templates are in the wp-content/uploads/espresso/templates-2012-12-14-12-36-26 folder. I found them there, just like you said in the above instructions.

So I downloaded a template from the plugin/eventespresso/template folder, added the changes from the same template in the wp-content/uploads/espresso/templates-2012-12-14-12-36-26 folder and then what?

You say to upload this to wp-content/uploads/espresso/templates.

Can I just confirm with you that I understand this right. There are three places where I will have templates.

wp-content/plugins/eventespresso/templates
wp-content/uploads/espresso/templates-2012-12-14-12-36-26
wp-content/uploads/espresso/templates

Further, do I understand rightly that the plugin first looks in the folder wp-content/uploads/espresso/templates for a template, if it doesn’t find it there, it will take the template from wp-content/plugins/eventespresso/templates.

So if I make changes to templates in the editor (like the famous line 42) I then need to safe a copy of this template in the wp-content/uploads/espresso/templates folder, so when there is another update, it won’t overwrite this?

Is this right, or am I totally wrong?

Thank you so much for helping me with this.

Best regards

Nadine

December 20, 2012 at 5:29 am

Dear Dean

You are truely an angel. At last I start to understand a little bit what is involved and what all the strange language means… thanks for explaining it all “dummy proof”. It doesn’t help of course that I am not a native English speaker.

As I wasn’t working here when the plugin was first setup, I am now trying to figure out in which php files there are changes that I have to copy over to the new templates.

I assume the one I am really looking for is the event_list_display.php. What I am trying to do is to make this kind of event list (the summary I was trying to explain in one of my first entries).

On the page now, it looks like this:
http://www.walterlernt.ch/

What I want in the end is something like this:
http://wordpress-kurse.ch/
(scroll to the bottom and you’ll see the events list. On the walter lernt site we used to have something like it, but now it’s gone).

On the mentioned php I have found the code below:

<?php //echo $venue_title != ''?''.stripslashes_deep($venue_title).'':'' ?>
<?php //echo $venue_address != ''?''.stripslashes_deep($venue_address).'':''?>
<?php //echo $venue_address2 != ''?''.stripslashes_deep($venue_address2).'':''?>
<?php //echo $venue_city != ''?''.stripslashes_deep($venue_city).'':''?>
<?php //echo $venue_state != ''?''.stripslashes_deep($venue_state).'':''?>
<?php //echo $venue_zip != ''?''.stripslashes_deep($venue_zip).'':''?>
<?php //echo $venue_country != ''?''.stripslashes_deep($venue_country).'':'' 
 /*echo '';
 print_r($event);
 echo '';
 echo $this_event_id;*/
 $venueName = '';
 $event->event_cost = empty($event->event_cost) ? '' : $event->event_cost;
 if(!empty($event->venue_name)){
    $venueName = $event->venue_name;
 }else{
    global $wpdb;
    $sql = "SELECT name FROM wp_events_venue wev
            JOIN wp_events_venue_rel wevr ON ( wev.id = wevr.venue_id )
            JOIN wp_events_detail wed ON ( wevr.event_id = wed.id )
            WHERE wed.id = $this_event_id
            ";
    $venueName = $wpdb->get_var($sql);

 }

Is this the part I have to copy into a copy of the new template and then safe it all in the uploads template folder? Or is there anything else?

Again, a million thanks for your help.

Nadine

December 20, 2012 at 8:20 am

Dear Dean
I downloaded Diffmerge and that programme is truely cool. I’ve also downloaded and unzipped the Custom Files addon.

What did I do then:
I looked at the uploads/espresso and found that we had already uploaded the three files from the Custom Files addon (custom functions, shortcodes and includes). I checked if they were the same and they nearly were. So I added “old” to the existing files and copied the new files into the same folder.
However, the template folder in the uploads/espresso was empty. So then I looked at the names of the files in the Custom Files addon templates folder and looked for the same files in the wp-content/uploads/espresso/templates-2012-12-14-12-36-26 folder. I copied those into the uploads/espresso/templates folder.

I then checked in the templates-2012-12-14-12-36-26 for all the folders that had been changed since the first date of installation and found five. So I compared those five with the new files of the updated Espresso Plugin (in the plugin/espresso/template folder) using the Diffmerge programm and clicking on “copy from the left to the right” to copy the changes from the old files into the new ones. Once I finished with that I pasted those five files into the upload/espresso/templates folder.

When I now click on the walterlernt.ch site, all I get is a blank screen. OMG!!!!

Is it possible that one of you can have a look at my folders and phps and all and help me out here? I don’t mind if it costs us some money, but we really need this site fixed and running before we lose business.

I think you still have the login details.

I am so sorry for all the trouble and thank you very much for your help.

Nadine

December 21, 2012 at 12:40 am

Dear Josh

I fully understand what you are saying and appreciate your help immensely. But my white-screen-problem wasn’t a bug or anything, just the result of what I did and described above. Obviously, in trying to get my old templates back, I did something wrong.

So lets say, we ignore all of our old templates and work with what we have now (I deleted all the work from yesterday and I am back to a semi-normal site).

If you look at the http://www.walterlernt.ch site you have the full details fo each course on the main site. I don’t want short descriptions either with the more tag, all I want here is a event table like we have on this site http://wordpress-kurse.ch/ at the bottom of the home page. A table with the course, the date and time, the price, place and a link to more details and booking of that course.

On the home page in the backend it now says : [ESPRESSO_EVENTS limit=3]
And on the page of the course summary it says: [ESPRESSO_EVENTS]

All I want to know is how I can make this table so that it will show on my website? Does that really need code written into the php files and if yes, which code in which file?

Thank you, thank you. Nadine