Calendar formatting for dummies?

finntown
(@finntown)

1 year, 7 months ago

Hello, first post here,

What am I missing when I get a calendar looking like this (this is a test page on a Finnish site with the calendar shortcode and also a widget placed in the rightside bar.

I’m using Events Manager 6.3. WordPress 6.2.2 with Elementor 3.13.4. I tried copying the template files to my theme folder as instructed, but without success. The thememaker told me that it should not be anything in the theme that is messing with it, just that formatting is somehow broken or missing elsewhere?

Thankful for any help as I’m totally stuck! 🙂

I was wishing for something like presented on the EM website as follows, with slight color edits only.

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joneiseman
(@joneiseman)

1 year, 7 months ago

Try switching to a default theme (e.g., Twenty Twenty-Three) and see if you see the same problem.

Thread Starter finntown
(@finntown)

1 year, 7 months ago

I do not get the same problem with Twenty Twenty-Three.

joneiseman
(@joneiseman)

1 year, 7 months ago

Then it must be a problem with the theme.

Thread Starter finntown
(@finntown)

1 year, 7 months ago

Figured as much, I will have to bug their support again.

The way the calendar is styled on the Events Manager website (my screenshot above), is that from a theme or can it be styled like that in any theme? As long as the calendar works of course. 😉

joneiseman
(@joneiseman)

1 year, 7 months ago

You can style it like that with any theme.

Thread Starter finntown
(@finntown)

1 year, 7 months ago

It was indeed the theme at fault, a few lines removed from functions.php and it works now.

I’ve tried to change this date format, but I don’t seem to have any success doing it. Is it not the date field in Settings -> Formatting -> Calendar?

joneiseman
(@joneiseman)

1 year, 7 months ago

Settings->Formatting->Date/Time

Thread Starter finntown
(@finntown)

1 year, 7 months ago

It should be formatted as F Y right now, but there’s nothing that says F Y except Grouped list format and changing that doesn’t affect it. Formats in Date/Time are j.n.Y and Y-m-d.

joneiseman
(@joneiseman)

1 year, 7 months ago

If you want to change the format for the Calendar Header go to Settings->Formatting->Calendar and change the Month Format (to F Y).
Thread Starter finntown
(@finntown)

1 year, 7 months ago
For some reason it doesn’t respect those values. I edited section-header-navigation.php from
```
<input type="month" class="em-month-picker" value="<?php echo $EM_DateTime->i18n('Y-m') ?>" data-month-value="<?php echo $EM_DateTime->i18n('F Y') ?>">
```
to
```
<input type="month" class="em-month-picker" value="<?php echo $EM_DateTime->i18n('Y-m') ?>" data-month-value="<?php echo $EM_DateTime->i18n('M Y') ?>">
```
Not the nicest way to do it, but this did change the value from full textual month to short textual month.
joneiseman
(@joneiseman)

1 year, 7 months ago

It worked for me without editing section-header-navigation.php.

Thread Starter finntown
(@finntown)

1 year, 7 months ago

Most likely I’m missing something that’s blocking the settings, i.e. the theme in question. Thank you for your help.

Thread Starter finntown
(@finntown)

1 year, 7 months ago

One more question. The modal title is not editable/translatable? I know the date is, but I can’t find where the “Events on” is located. Thanks!
joneiseman
(@joneiseman)

1 year, 7 months ago
You can copy wp-content/plugins/events-manager/templates/calendar/preview-date-modal.php to the wp-content/plugin-templates/events-manager/calendar directory and then modify the following line:
```
<?php echo sprintf(esc_html__('Events on %s'), $EM_DateTime->formatDefault(false)); ?>
```
Thread Starter finntown
(@finntown)

1 year, 7 months ago

Belated thanks for the help!