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October 10, 2014 at 6:14 am

Hi Gary,

I’ve looked at some of the shortcodes and some work, some won’t. For example I’ve managed to stop the pagenation from showing and I’ve enabled the metro look but the shortcode to show the date first before event title did not work. Any ideas why?

Currently we do not include a shortcode to alter the column order, you can change the sorting order (the vertical listing) but the columns will stay in the same order. Can you post the full shortcode you are using please?

Changing the colour and removing the Venues column will depend on the template you are using. The template can be edited and then saved to wp-content/uploads/espresso/templates/

I can provide further details when I know which template you are using.

October 10, 2014 at 10:17 am

Hi Gary,

I’ll follow up with each of your comments and questions below:

The order by start date does not work. Your instructions seem to indicate this should change the order of the list so that event start date is first and then event name. However I now assume what it’s intended to do is merely give the user another option to search the events by. To me it would make the most sense to have the date as the first colomn and then trip name, can this be changed?

It turns out that order by start date changes the order of the events. So for example you can make it display the events in alphabetical order. This is useful if all the events happen on the same date. The date column can be moved over to be the first column by editing the table plugin’s. You will need to be comfortable with editing template files or contract with a PHP to do this. Basically this involves opening up the espresso-events-table-template.template.php and changing the order of the <th> elements that start on line 43. Then change the <td> element order that start on line 95.

Table search = false does work, it removed the search box.
Table paging = false also works so that I no longer have page numbers at the base.

I’m glad to hear that.

Table style = metro also works. The default style was very unattractive, the metro theme font etc is more acceptable. However the styles are all blue and I would like to change the colour so it matches my theme better.

You can change colours by adding CSS to your custom stylesheet. For example, if you want the blue background to be changed to black, you add this:

.content .footable {
  border-color: #333;
}

.content .footable > thead > tr > th,
.content .footable > thead > tr > td,
.content .footable > tfoot > tr > th, 
.content .footable > tfoot > tr > td  {
  border-color: #333;
  background-color: #333;
}

Your limited documentation seemed to say that:
We’ve included the FooTable jQuery scripts in this add-on to help make your tables look great.
When you say this do you mean that we should also install Footable plugin to get this extra control or do you mean simply that the shortcodes that then follow this statement are the Footable ones supported that will allow us to get great looking tables. I’ve seen an example of Footable and it does seem to allow changing of color. Can I do this? To describe that you can make your tables look great would seem to be somewhat overstating the matter if you cannot even change the color of the table.

It does not mean you install a footable plugin. The built in footable plugin we add to this template allows for switching themes (as you have done) and it allows for other things like using a toggle template which is optimized for mobile. I’m sorry you feel it’s overstating the matter. Thank you for your feedback.

The other thing I would like to achieve is to remove the venue column. If you look at the link I sent you will notice that I don’t use the venue option and I would rather not show the column.

You can remove the venue column by removing the venue table header code (line 44), and the venue table cell code from the template (line 96).