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January 26, 2016 at 2:37 am

Hi there,

Event Espresso uses your sites theme to output the event details, it does this in a very similar way in which a standard single post would be output, using your single.php template file (or index.php if you don’t have one) and just injects the event details into the_content()

In WordPress the templates for single posts check for a single-{post_type}.php template file, if one is not available they will use the generic single.php template. What this means is that you can specify exactly how the single espresso_events posts will be pout using a single-espresso_events.php template file which is what the instructions from https://gist.github.com/lorenzocaum/16aac08f099d7c154f04 try to guide your through.

(Note the above is theme dependent as some themes don’t use any templates and output evenything through index.php by default, you can still take over this using single-{post_type}.php templates but your theme may also have other ways to handle this)

However one problem is that the output needs to be specific for your theme, the template files mentioned in the link above are built from twentyfourteen so they may not be compatible with your theme and won’t look how you expect. If no event title is being output then either a template file is missing or its being hidden by CSS as the templates do output the title.

Can you link me to one of your events please, I’d like to take a look at what is happening.

The link you provided as an example has all of the standard EE output, what is it you would like to change?

January 26, 2016 at 6:12 am

The title in the link its under a blue background as a “header” in the event details template.

The title needs to be added by your theme, you can then style it however you prefer using css but right now it seems it isn’t added at all.

The ticket selections font bigger.

You can likely do that just with some css.

Without actually seeing the code or viewing the pages to see what is happening its hard to narrow this down but so far the only change that requires a template file is to add the title_title() which for EE events would output the event title.

IMO the template files from https://gist.github.com/lorenzocaum/16aac08f099d7c154f04 complicate matters, they are useful if you want complete control over each individual section of EE, but not if you just want the sidebar left or sidebar right etc. I would recommend removing them so you can work with what your theme outputs by default and then modify from there based on your themes templates rather than using the other templates to push content to work differently.

Try installing a plugin such as What the file and loading the single event agin, in the admin bar you’ll see a ‘What the file’ dropdown tha lists all of the template used by your theme to output the data. You can then see whats going on and what templates your theme is using.

January 28, 2016 at 5:33 am

The problem was the Fullwidth Page template.. and also in the header of single-event_espresso i didn’t have the comment Template Name: xxxx which didn’t make the template name visible in the Template dropdown in the event edit page.

I’m glad you’ve got it working, adding the Template Name: xxxx isn’t necessary as WordPress will use the single-{post_type}.php if you do not have a template set within the event editor, so you just set it to default.

January 28, 2016 at 6:46 am

You’re most welcome, have a great day 🙂