Title: Help
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Help

 *  Resolved [kpernici](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kpernici/)
 * (@kpernici)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-460/)
 * Hello Andy and Barry:
 * I’m hoping you can guide me in the right direction. I’ve recently been asked 
   to assist on a Web project for a site I did not create from scratch and where
   there have been many different people involved so far.
 * We have a site on WordPress 3.8.1 running Swagger theme. We have the following
   plugins installed:
 * The Events Calendar – Version 3.4.1
    The Events Calendar PRO – Version 2.0.11(
   although we currently have a message at the top of our dashboard reading “The
   following plugins are out of date: Events Calendar PRO 2.0.11. All add-ons contain
   dependencies on The Events Calendar and will not function properly unless paired
   with the right version. Want to pair an older version?)
 * Anyway…last night, I downloaded and installed The Events Calendar Category Colors
   version 3.4.2. I followed your installation instructions and added the following
   code to our functions.php file:
 * if( class_exists( ‘Tribe_Events_Category_Colors’ )) {
 *  teccc_reposition_legend( ‘tribe_events_before_footer’ );
    teccc_add_text_color(‘
   Red’, ‘#f00’ ); teccc_add_legend_view( ‘upcoming’ );
 * }
 * I clicked the Colors tab and set up the colors for my categories, but when I 
   hit SAVE, nothing immediately happened. I wanted the legend to display at the
   top of the calendar, so I went into the fuctions.php file and removed the line
   about repositioning the legend and voila – the shaded colored boxes appeared 
   on my calendar. I noticed that the red and orange colors I had chosen were a 
   little too close, so I went back into the Colors tab to edit, and this time when
   I hit SAVE, the colors went away and also removed several event items from my
   calendar (which had been recurring calendar events) – but only for 2 weeks. Very
   bizarre. I never physically went in and edited the actual calendar event entries–
   but had to do so to manually restore the missing events after this happened. 
   Has your plugin displayed a bug like this before?
 * I have temporarily deactivated the plugin until I can do more research. For the
   brief 2 seconds it was working, it looked fantastic and seemed to accomplish 
   everything we’re looking to do. Could it be the location of how I put the code
   into the functions.php file? (in this order … )
 * <?php
    /*———————————————————————————–*/ /* Run Theme Blvd Framework /* /* Below
   is the file needed to load the parent theme and theme framework. /* It’s included
   with require_once(). /* /* If you’re creating a child theme, this line needs 
   to be at the top of your /* child theme’s functions.php. By doing this you’re
   overriding the file being /* included here. /*———————————————————————————–*/
 * require_once ( get_template_directory() . ‘/framework/themeblvd.php’ );
    if( 
   class_exists( ‘Tribe_Events_Category_Colors’ )) {
 *  teccc_reposition_legend( ‘tribe_events_before_footer’ );
    teccc_add_text_color(‘
   Red’, ‘#f00’ ); teccc_add_legend_view( ‘upcoming’ );
 * }
 * Do I have to go into any other stylesheets (CSS) to override anything?
 * I’m also seeing the following in our “Themes” view: “Broken Themes – the following
   themes are installed but incomplete. Themes must have a stylesheet and a template.
   Name (Twenty Eleven for LI – Description: The parent theme is missing. Please
   install the “twentyeleven” parent theme) Do you think this problem could be theme
   related?
 * Any help you might be able to provide, including whether or not the Events Calendar
   PRO plugin actually has color functionality built in – would be most appreciated.
 * Thank you for your time. It looks like a powerful plugin – I just want to get
   it to work!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar-category-colors/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar-category-colors/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Andy Fragen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/afragen/)
 * (@afragen)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-460/#post-4619213)
 * First, I don’t think ECP 2.0.11 will work with the current version of TEC. In
   fact, it may cause issues. You’ll have to ask elsewhere to find out of sure.
 * The theme warning you’re getting is because you have a child theme for Twenty
   Eleven and you don’t have the Twenty Eleven theme installed.
 * As far as I can see the additional setting code is proper and should be installed
   in your current theme’s functions.php file.
 * Legend location above the grid is the default. The code you have will put it 
   at the bottom.
 * There is no inherent category coloring in either TEC or ECP.
 * Can you provide a URL?
 *  Thread Starter [kpernici](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kpernici/)
 * (@kpernici)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-460/#post-4619303)
 * Thanks Andy.
 * We are about to upgrade to the latest version of ECP, so I hope this will fix
   the situation and allow us to run The Events Calendar Category Colors plugin.
 * Do most folks who use it also have TEC and ECP installed and activated (running
   on the most current versions)?
 *  Plugin Author [Andy Fragen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/afragen/)
 * (@afragen)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-460/#post-4619304)
 * Everyone **should** be running the latest version of TEC. I’m not sure how mixing
   version of TEC and ECP work out but it’s likely to cause issues.
 * You if you disable ECP you can see how the Category Colors plugin will function.
   It works with or without ECP.
 * You’d have to get the data regarding what versions of TEC and ECP that are currently
   in use from Modern Tribe. 😉
 *  Thread Starter [kpernici](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kpernici/)
 * (@kpernici)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-460/#post-4619305)
 * OK. Thanks very much!

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 * Last reply from: [kpernici](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kpernici/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-460/#post-4619305)
 * Status: resolved