Wrong State displayed

  • Resolved ncbogroupie

    (@ncbogroupie)


    8 years, 9 months ago

    Running WordPress, Weaver Xtreme Theme Child, The Events Calendar, and Events Calendar Pro, all latest versions. Currently on localhost but we are putting the site on the web within a few days.

    I noticed 2 glaring “typos” on the Front Page: Not a good way to start a new website with such misleading information as the first item! Greenville is especially bad as there is a (bigger) Greenville in SC! I double-checked ‘Events’ for each item, also ‘Venues’, all addresses are correct. Where are these erroneous “states” coming from?

    This is the front page, below the logo:
    Upcoming Concerts
    Click on concert name for details, click on “+Google Map” for directions:
    Monteverdi – Columbia, SC
    October 8 @ 4:00 pm
    Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Columbia, SC
    1100 Sumter Street
    Columbia, NC 29201 + Google Map

    Bach Concerto for Two Violins – Greenville, NC
    October 17 @ 7:00 am
    East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
    East Fifth Street
    Greenville, SC 27858 + Google Map

    Btw, would it be possible to make +Google Map link into a button?
    2 other “problems” I would like to take care of before we put the site on the web:
    “Calendar View” works with Events>Setting>Right Here, but same exact url on Calendar page (menu item) produces this result:

    Calendar
    http://localhost/wordpress/wordpress/wordpress/concerts/

    I do hope you can help me, as we can’t go live with this glaring error on the front page!

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Thread Starter ncbogroupie

    (@ncbogroupie)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    Well, I finally figured that one out! On the “Venue” page, “Country” was entered as “United States” and state picked from drop down list as “South Carolina”. This was then corrected to “select a country” and “NC”. As all our events are in the US, is there any way to eliminate the “Country” field to prevent this from happening again? Also would like to be able to enter NC instead of North Carolina.

    Thread Starter ncbogroupie

    (@ncbogroupie)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    Unresolved part of last post:
    Btw, would it be possible to make +Google Map link into a button?
    2 other “problems” I would like to take care of before we put the site on the web:
    “Calendar View” works with Events>Setting>Right Here, but same exact url on Calendar page (menu item) produces this result:

    Calendar
    http://localhost/wordpress/wordpress/wordpress/concerts/

    Abigailm

    (@abigailm)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    No one can see your site while it is on “localhost” — so no point posting links.

    There is a large amount if information about customizing the Event Calendar posted at https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/themers-guide/

    The way to make a link appear as a button is to create a custom style. To get started, see https://www.w3schools.com/css/css3_buttons.asp

    I’d suggest working with a child theme so that you don’t have to worry about styles being overwritten with theme upgrades. It’s a good time to implement that now, before your site goes live. Almost everything that the plugin does can be overridden with custom templates, so the answer to most of your “is it possible?” questions would generally be either to create a custom style or template.

    As to your question about the country in the drop down list, you can set a default country in the events setting menu, under “Default Content”. That won’t eliminate the drop down, but it means that the field will be automatically populated with “United States” and that probably would go a long way toward preventing the data entry error you experienced.

    Thread Starter ncbogroupie

    (@ncbogroupie)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    I reiterate: I am running WordPress, Weaver Xtreme Theme Child, The Events Calendar, and Events Calendar Shortcode Pro, all latest versions. Currently on localhost but we are putting the site on the web within a few days.
    “Calendar View” works with Events>Setting>Right Here, but same exact url on Calendar page (menu item) produces this result:

    “Calendar
    http://localhost/wordpress/wordpress/wordpress/concerts/”
    This is not intended as a link. It is the exact text I get on my screen instead of the calendar view I expect.
    I tried deactivating all plugins except the Events Calendar and Events Calendar Shortcode, and switching to Theme Twenty Seventeen. This made no difference.
    As the main purpose of this site is to inform visitors about upcoming concerts, it is important that we be able to display this information before we put the site on the web.

    Abigailm

    (@abigailm)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    Sorry, I misunderstood your second question. I thought you were trying to link to the page with the problem.

    I’m just another user so I can’t help you with your menu problem.

    But when you are reporting a problem and want to quote text verbatim, it will be more cleark if you enclose the quoted text in either b-quote or code tags, like this:

    “Calendar
    http://localhost/wordpress/wordpress/wordpress/concerts/”

    If you are using Events Calendar Pro then you can get support from the forums here – https://theeventscalendar.com/support-forums/

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 9 months ago by Abigailm.
    Thread Starter ncbogroupie

    (@ncbogroupie)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    I don’t think the problem lies with EC-CS. I switched to Theme Twenty-Seventeen and deactivated all plug-ins except The Events Calendar (but I did deactivate EC-Shortcode) and the problem was still there. Click on menu item “Calendar” results in:
    “Calendar
    http://localhost/wordpress/wordpress/wordpress/concerts/”
    I do notice one strange thing, though: the permalink on page “Calendar” reads:
    “http://localhost/wordpress/wordpress/wordpress/concerts-2/” I tried editing the permalink to eliminate the “-2” but that didn’t work.

    Abigailm

    (@abigailm)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    Have you tried coding your menu link to match the permalink?

    Thread Starter ncbogroupie

    (@ncbogroupie)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    Yes, I tried coding the menu link to match the permalink. The result was a white box:
    “Calendar
    Calendar…continue reading
    Logo & Site title”
    I clicked on ‘continue reading’ and got a black box:
    “WordPres embed HTML embed
    then the url
    Copy and paste this URL into your WordPress site to embed”

    Abigailm

    (@abigailm)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    Is wordpress/concerts/ a page with a shortcode, or is it a category link?

    I’m asking because on my installation, the category links are all in this format:

    mysite/events/category/category-name

    So if “concerts” is an event category, I would expect the link to be coded something like this:

    http://localhost/wordpress/events/category/concerts/

    (I’m a little confused about why your local installation has a path /wordpress/wordpress/wordpress/ so I didn’t code my example that way, but obviously you would want to code the full path)

    But if “concerts” is your Events URL slug, then my comment above wouldn’t apply.

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    Thread Starter ncbogroupie

    (@ncbogroupie)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    Events>Settings>Right Here, results in the calendar view, displayed correctly.
    The url at top of calendar view page is: “http://localhost/wordpress/concerts/”
    The page (and menu item) are “Calendar”.
    The only item on this page is: “http://localhost/wordpress/concerts/”
    The result of clicking menu item “Calendar” is this text: “http://localhost/wordpress/concerts/”
    The permalink on page, “Calendar” is: “http://localhost/wordpress/concerts/”
    When I changed the link on page “Calendar” to “http://localhost/wordpress/concerts-2/” I got this result:
    White box with “Calendar…continue reading” Clicking this reloads the white box again
    Second line in white box is: Site logo and site title and a symbol (like this<but with balls at both ends and in the middle) lousy description, but I don’t know what it means! Anyway, when I click on it I get a black box “WordPress embed/HTML embed”
    Below that is a white box with: “http://localhost/wordpress/concerts-2/&#8221;
    Below that is: “Copy and paste this URL into your WordPress site to embed”
    bty: My “wordpress/wordpress/wordpress” is the result of improper installation, but as it works OK the “guru” on WPMUDEV said not to change it as it might really mess things up! In my examples above I have eliminated the extra 2 WordPresses! I didn’t bother with categories, as all our events are concerts.

    Abigailm

    (@abigailm)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    The page (and menu item) are “Calendar”.

    Do you mean that your site has an actual page titled “Calendar”? (Listed at Dashboard > Pages)?

    Thread Starter ncbogroupie

    (@ncbogroupie)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    Yes, Dashboard>Pages>Calendar, because I want the word “Calendar” on my menu. Is the word “Calendar” a no-no word because it is used by the program? I ran into that problem when I wanted a page “2016” and was told I couldn’t use it because WordPress uses it for archives! Trouble is, I had it working for a while, with the “Calendar” page, then it suddenly quit working. Not sure when, maybe the last update of EC? I’ve been making so many changes, trying out plugins, etc., I just didn’t notice!

    Abigailm

    (@abigailm)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    OK, I’m having a real difficult time figuring out what you’ve done, and obviousliy I can’t see your site.

    All I can tell you is how I have things set up on my site.

    I don’t have ANY “pages” for events — I just use the slugs created by the program.

    So for me it is: site.url/events/

    But if I wanted my “events” called something else (like “concerts”) then I would change the event slug on the Events setting page (under the “general” tab..) So then it could be: site.url/concerts/

    All of my menu links to the event calendar are set up as custom links (not page links) — and I simply enter the link to the URL generated by the software (so in your case, site.url/concerts/) and put in whatever I want for the navigation label. No pages needed.

    If you have created a page called “Calendar” and merely typed the URL to the events calendar on that page, it isn’t going to display your calendar. At least that’s not any feature of The Events Calendar that I am aware of, and it certainly does not work on a test page on my site.

    It sounds like maybe you are trying to embed the calendar on that page? You can do that for a single event, but for the whole calendar you need to use a short code — see https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/inserting-calendar-content-posts-pages/

    And I don’t know why you want to do that in any case, if the calendar is the only thing on the page.

    Unless I’m misunderstanding something, I’d suggest that you trash the calendar page and just set up your menu items as custom links.

    Thread Starter ncbogroupie

    (@ncbogroupie)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    AbigailM you’re a genius! I changed it to a “custom link” and inserted the url. And, Bingo! There’s my calendar!
    I think EC was the first plugin I installed shortly after installing WP, as a total newbie. At that time, I thought the only way to put an item on a menu was to create a page with the name I wanted on the menu. Now, thanks to you, I know better. Thank you soo much for your help and patience!

    Thread Starter ncbogroupie

    (@ncbogroupie)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    Calendar view works beautifully. I have been changing the colors. However the bar at the top of the calendar with the days of the week remains dark gray, with black lettering. This is virtually illegible, even on my big desktop. How can I change these colors?

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