steveredshaw

I could not find a way to automatically email events to site members, the Email Users plug-in was a workaround as it needs to be handled manually. In the end the Events Manager plug-in (which was the original subject of this forum query) could not cater for my exact needs, though I believe the paid-for version does have an email notification facility. But it does allow site members/users to create their own events, it has an excellent calendar and the events list is presented very well – at least it looked really good in the theme I was using. I suggest you experiment, it took me quite a while to get familiar with the Events Manager plug-in and satisfy myself that it met all my requirements.

yes, that did it, thanks for guiding me through all this – we seem to be back to full normal functioning now…

sorry this is getting bewildering, events list now showing (I have not changed anything!!), but calendar still empty…

have created a new page and designated this as the events list page in Events Manager settings, but no events appear on this

that’s great, the URL above appeared as http://mydomain.com/events/feed/ and is now a separate content block in my netvibes dashboard, a useful way to access the information outside of the website itself, which is what I am trying to achieve

the shortcode link is useful too, I can continue experimenting

thanks…

this is great detective work, I am incredibly grateful as I am not knowledgeable enough to delve into a php file to see what may be amiss!!

the line in my classes/filters.class.php file was like this (the whole section)

/*
* If use caption for title try to get the text from the caption - this could be wrong
                                    */
                                    if ($lightboxPlusOptions['use_caption_title']) {
                                        if ($e->next_sibling()->class == 'wp-caption-text') {
                                            $e->title = $e->next_sibling()->innertext;
                                        }
                                        elseif ($e->parent()->next_sibling()->class = 'gallery-caption') {
                                            $e->title = $e->parent()->next_sibling()->innertext;
                                        }
                                    }

this shows the amended version (insert ==) and it works if Auto-LightBox Text Links is checked and Do Not Display Image Title: is unchecked

BTW – in the above code extract should class=’gallery caption’ also have a double =? (although that does not affect my use of the plug-in I don’t think)

ah – I tried writing the php snippet into the text editor of the page – I wondered why it didn’t work!

so, this is my solution

• write a php function (well copy one from a helpful web article)
• create a shortcode
• insert into your theme’s function.php file
• place it before the final ?> in the functions.php file
  (copy and save your theme’s original functions.php so if something messes up you can put the original back in place)

  this is my addition which creates a Welcome message naming the logged in user by adding the shortcode [welcome_user] to a post or page.

  /**
  * user display name - SR Feb 13
  */
  function displayName () {
  global $user_identity;
        get_currentuserinfo();
  
        echo "Welcome " . $user_identity;
  }
  
  /**
  * create shortcode to display name on page - SR Feb 13
  */
  add_shortcode('welcome_user', 'displayName');

  I found out about creating short codes here

  I am new to WP and to PHP, but am enjoying the flexibility and customization that WP offers. Please do comment on my attempts, there is much more I need to learn…

proper template(s).

thanks very much for this, I have read the articles and get the concepts there, but can you place php snippets directly into a post or blog (in the text editor tab). I have tried this but it does not work. I am unclear what proper templates are and how you use these snippets to display the variable’s content on a page… thanks