Brook

Howdy Cybertek,

This is possible with a theme override of the single-event page. Have a look at the Themer’s Guide. It walks you through modifying the PHP templates so you change tstuff like this.

Cheers!
– Brook

Howdy brody182,

Yeah I am sorry, that is not the right function for your needs. It will return pubdates not event dates and is focused on the first post of a page.

If you want the day of the week for each one, the easiest way to do it might be to create your own version of the $days_of_week that’s actually $days_of_month. Our plugin uses wp_locale->get_weekday_abbrev for $days_of_week (https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_locale/get_weekday_abbrev/) but you would probably not need to do that if you’re not worried about an international solution. Populate your array with every possible day of the month so 5 weeks of Mon-Sun. From there you determine what the start day of the month and how long the month is using PHP’s date utils, trim the days from the start and end of the month that you dont need. Now that you have that you can have an increment the counter for each day, and just call the current day from the array as you go through each month day. That’s basically what our plugin does, only it is limited to one week. But that’s just the first of the hurdles you are going to face to build this customization.

In this forum, in order to provide volunteer/free support to everyone we are only able to give basic overviews like the above for customizations. That said, sometimes one of the community volunteers has more time and can provide further assistance. So I will definitely leave this topic open in case someone comes along.

Best of luck with your customization.
– Brook

Howdy luukkeee,

I am happy you reached out. Calendar queries are intrinsically complex, and tend to tax the SQL server pretty well. That is why we take it very seriously to optimize our calendar queries as much as possible. We have done extensive testing on them, particularly over the past 12 month, and optimized them in every way we found.

Some recent changes to our Month View did make it perform it a little bit slower than it could, and we have some performance updates for it coming in either 3.12 or 4.0 depending on when they pass QA.

Do you know if it is specific pages that are taxing the server hard? The Month View is one of the most complex query wire, which is why we offer a built-in caching feature for it. Have you enabled month view caching in WP-Admin > Events > Settings > Display ? If month view is not the issue, how many events do you have set to display per page? You might try bumping it down to around 10 if it’s not already.

If your settings are already optimized then you probably have just reached the limits of what your server can handle. Powering a calendar is hard work.

Cheers!
– Brook

Howdy Annedawn,

I am very sorry we never got back to you. Your thread was accidentally missed during out weekly pass. And with the way the forums work here, if you miss it during a single pass you likely will never see it again. 🙁

You could write a custom event list using the function tribe_get_events(), more information on that function is in our docs: The Events Calendar: API Documentation. Or, if you have Events Calendar PRO you could include a list of event titles or even a mini month view calendar via the shortcodes.

Would one of those options work? Sorry again for the ridiculous delay. 🙁

Cheers!
– Brook

Howdy lchild,

I am sorry that is giving you so much trouble. We would definitely be interested in helping you. Could you share some details about your server environment? What version of PHP is it? Is it Windows or Linux?

Would you mind grabbing your system information and pasting it here if your server allows? You can find the system info by going to WP Admin > Events > Settings, clicking on the “Help” tab, and scrolling down to the ‘System Information’ box. (Or by going to [yoursite]/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=tribe_events&page=tribe-events-calendar&tab=help) That will give me a lot of extra information to help diagnose the problem.

Finally and probably most important, what do your server logs say? What specific error is causing this page?

Thanks for reaching out. With that info hopefully find you a quick fix.

Cheers!
– Brook

Howdy guys,

You definitely can add events using our API. It’s not super well documented as of yet, but our plugin runs everything through the plugin function

Tribe__Events__API::createEvent().

From there you can specify args. There are tons of possible args thought few are required, and this is where our documentation gets a little fuzzy. You can see a list of possible meta values here: https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/wordpress-post-meta-data/

You might also checkout the class which power our CSV importer as it implements the above API in a rather concise way. It can be found:

the-events-calendar/src/io/csv/ecp-events-importer.php

Personally when I am inserting batches of stuff I just try to generate a CSV programatically and then import that. But, that’s just been my preference to date as its usually quite easy to do.

I hope that knowledge helps. If you have any specific ideas on what you would like to see in our documentation please let us know. We are working hard to improve it and appreciate the feedback.

Cheers!
– Brook

Howdy Travelmark,

Thanks for detailing the problem so thoroughly. The difference is that a page loaded by clicking Next is loaded via ajax. A direct load or a refresh is not ajax.

It would seem something is interfering with our Ajax requests. I have seen this happen a time or three before. It was always the result of a plugin conflict, usually a caching plugin. Could you try a conflict test? This guide walks you through how to test for a conflict, and then identify what is conflicting. You might start with any caching plugins/solutions you have. Disabling them and then retesting. If it is one of those, can they be disabled for ajax requests?

Cheers!
– Brook