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June 6, 2016 at 10:21 am

Hi Nick,

1. Removing the link from venue title and entry title

Venue title link: in content-espresso_events-venues.php on line 9 it has this:
$venue_name = espresso_venue_name( 0, 'details', FALSE );
you change it to this:
$venue_name = espresso_venue_name( 0, FALSE, FALSE );

Entry title: has an a href on content-espresso_events-header.php line 11. You remove that html code.

2. Displaying the address line by line (not inline)

Line 29 of content-espresso_events-venues.php you change:
<?php espresso_venue_address( 'inline' ); ?>
to be:
<?php espresso_venue_address( 'multiline' ); ?>

3. Can I hide the ‘State’ field in the address if it is not set?

Maybe. You could try adding some logic or even translate the “Unknown” string to be an empty string.

3. Not sure what the star by Qty in the ticket selector table refers to. Can I remove it?

Yes. You can remove the asterisk there by adding the following to your theme’s functions.php file:

function my_custom_ticket_qty_label( $label ) {
	return 'Qty';
}
add_filter( 'FHEE__ticket_selector_chart_template__table_header_qty', 'my_custom_ticket_qty_label' );

4. Can I include the venue image?

Yes, you add this to your template:

<?php $VNU_ID = espresso_venue_id( $post->ID ); ?>
<?php				
if ( has_post_thumbnail( $VNU_ID )) :
	if ( $img_ID = get_post_thumbnail_id( $VNU_ID )) :
		if ( $featured_img = wp_get_attachment_image_src( $img_ID, 'large' )) :
			$caption = esc_attr( get_post( get_post( $img_ID ))->post_excerpt );
			?>
<div id="ee-venue-img-dv-<?php echo $VNU_ID; ?>" class="ee-venue-img-dv">
	<a class="" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">
		<img class="ee-venue-img" src="<?php echo $featured_img[0]; ?>" width="<?php echo $featured_img[1]; ?>" height="<?php echo $featured_img[2]; ?>" alt="<?php echo $caption; ?>"/>
	</a>
</div>
<?php 
		endif;
	endif;
endif;
?>

5. For some reason the google map is not displayed on the right – even though there is HTML markup for it. Do you know why this is? (N.B. It is displayed on the left, where I don’t want it!)

You might need to remove the code for the one that’s displaying on the left. I don’t think the Google Maps API will work to display the same map twice on the same page.

6. The ‘content-espresso_events-details.php’ template is not only displaying the description of the event, i.e. everything from ‘In this 1 day workshop…’ down to ‘…and considerable experience working with people experiencing psychosis.’ Instead it is displaying datetime, ticket selector and venue information as well. How can I get it to just show the description?

The simple way is just don’t use that template part. You can use the_content() instead.

7. Can I display a custom field on the single event page, and if so, how?

Yes you can. This is a good guide that shows how:
https://perishablepress.com/wordpress-custom-fields-tips-tricks/

June 7, 2016 at 11:53 am

Hi Nick,

Here is one way to show the remaining spots for an event:

https://eventespresso.com/topic/ticketsplaces-remaining-ee4/#post-191823

You could repurpose the espresso_list_of_event_dates function to display in the layout that you are looking for. In this example, its updated to show only the time:

https://gist.github.com/lorenzocaum/41f70b94f7c6b212b145

Any changes to the function would replace the default look of the datetimes section on the event pages:

http://cl.ly/1f1f2X0U472W

—
Lorenzo

June 8, 2016 at 4:52 am

1. It’s not clear to me how I get the remaining tickets function to always show the number of tickets left, and not use ‘a lot of’.

‘A lot of’ should be returned when you do not have a limit set on the tickets. The function checks if there are an infinite amount of tickets available and displays that string.

2. There was one question above that was missed – Josh suggested I use the_content() in my template to just show the description of my event on a template page, but this is returning the datetime, ticket selector and venue information, as well as the description, as you can see here: http://test.opendialogueapproach.co.uk/events/an-introduction-to-the-open-dialogue-approach/. How do I just return the description?

Which template files are you using? I’m guessing you are not using single-espresso_events.php?

EE will inject the details into the the_content() unless you are using that template file, in which case it assumes you are taking over complete control of the output and no longer does so.

June 8, 2016 at 5:27 am

$event->description() will output only the description for the event.

However, to me there seems to be a misunderstanding of how to set this up (although we need more details to confirm, I may well be wrong) and simply using the above may cause problems further down the line.

You have a single-espresso_events.php template file within your child theme correct?

You also have multiple templates copied over from Espresso_Arabica_2014 within your child theme?

Can you send me a copy of the theme so we can see how you have this set up? You can send the theme to support[at]eventespresso.com (please include a link to this thread so we know what the email is for)

June 8, 2016 at 3:57 pm

Hi Nick,

I loaded your child theme locally with a version of X and only the event description was output within the left div – http://take.ms/9YSUr

I then changed espresso_get_template_part( 'content', 'espresso_events-details' ); to echo the_content(); to confirm if that works as expected and it did.

Have you customized any other files within Event Espresso?

Have you added any filters such as:

​add_filter( 'FHEE__EED_Event_Single__template_include__allow_custom_selected_template', '__return_true' );

To your site to force EE to load all details within the_content()?

June 9, 2016 at 1:36 am

You’re most welcome, Nick.

I’m glad its now working for you 🙂

To explain a little about those filters for future readers, when you load a single-espresso_events.php or archive-espresso_events.php template, EE assumes you will be taking full control of the output (such as the case here with the custom EE templates).

However we found a lot of themes would hardcode specific sidebars or some other elements on the single and archive outputs that many users wanted to remove. You could do this with CSS but it wasn’t very user friendly so we created filters to allow you to use a custom template but continue to use the build in ordering feature of EE.

This means you can remove hardcoded elements like sidebars from the output without extensive knowledge of the EE templates (you remove the sidebar from the template and EE did its usual thing with the_content using that ‘custom’ template). However using BOTH the filter and individual custom templates for the EE details results in the problem mentioned above as your telling EE to continue to inject into the_content() and also loading the same details using templates.

June 10, 2016 at 6:16 am

Whilst its possible to pull in all registrations with a status of Pending Payment and Approved and then use those values I just want to make sure your aware that it means that anyone who selects a ticket and enters registration details into the form will apply to those values?

It may seem obvious but its easily overlooked and it means (depending on your setup) that it may be really easy for any user to force your datetimes to show as sold out even though they aren’t.

June 10, 2016 at 6:56 am

You can do something like this:

//Use this block inside the datetime loop in place of:
//$remain = $datetime->spaces_remaining( true );
$tickets = $datetime->ticket_types_available_for_purchase();

$all_ticket_registrations = 0;

if( ! empty($tickets) ) {
	foreach($tickets as $ticket) {
		$all_ticket_registrations += $ticket->count_registrations( array( array( 'STS_ID' => array( 'IN', array( EEM_Registration::status_id_pending_payment, EEM_Registration::status_id_approved ) ) ) ) );
	}
}
   
$remain = $limit - $all_ticket_registrations;

Note the comment at the beginning, that block of code should be use in place of the single line $remain = $datetime->spaces_remaining( true ); within the original function.