• Facebook Events: Clearing up timezone confusion

    News & Announcements, Tutorial

    Over at his blog, our own support guru Barry Hughes published a post this weekend that overlaps nicely with the work he’s doing for us at Modern Tribe. It focused on a point of frustration we’ve been seeing at the Facebook Events forum, where — for sites in timezones outside of Pacific time — imported events show an incorrect hour offset. Barry writes: When you create a new event Facebook will intelligently determine what the … Continue reading →

  • How to Create a Facebook App ID

    Products, Tutorial

    Hey everybody! In this tutorial I’m going to walk you through how to create a Facebook App ID to be used with our Facebook Events add-on. While an App ID is not required, it is suggested you create your own to be used to import your Facebook events into. I. Register as a Developer You need to have your Facebook account registered as a developer before you can create an App and App ID. If … Continue reading →

  • Removing the Events dropdown from the WP admin bar

    Tutorial

    Starting in The Events Calendar 2.0.9, you can remove this “Events” dropdown menu that appears in the WordPress admin bar: Simply add this bit of code into your wp-config file, and make sure before doing so that you’re running 2.0.9…as it won’t work any earlier versions of the plugin: define(‘TRIBE_DISABLE_TOOLBAR_ITEMS’, true); Changing the ‘true’ to ‘false’ will bring the “Events” menu back; it’s only hidden when ‘true’ is in place.

  • Adjusting how many years display in the calendar view dropdown

    Tutorial

    Some folks prefer to control how many years frontend users can choose from on the dropdown that appears in calendar view. You can use the following code in your themes functions.php file to adjust how many years show in that dropdown:

  • Revisited: Showing Events and Venues in Breadcrumbs

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    The Events Calendar comes with a few built-in conditionals that can be very useful when customizing your templates. The Question Recently, a user asked why events were not showing up correctly in his breadcrumbs. The Answer Unless your breadcrumb code is checking for custom taxonomies, it’s not going to know what to do with events and venues. Most breadcrumb plugins use a mix of conditionals to determine what to show, and often custom taxonomies don’t … Continue reading →

  • Change Events Calendar Strings Without Editing Language Files

    Products, Tutorial

    Until now, if you wanted to change labels and strings in the Events Calendar you could edit the language files as outlined in this FAQ post. Now we have a new solution contributed by one of our users that allows you to change strings in your themes functions.php file. To do this, just add this snippet to your themes functions.php file (preferably at the end): You can add as many elseif conditions as you want … Continue reading →

  • Manually Checking for Updates to Modern Tribe Plugins

    Tutorial

    With each release of The Events Calendar PRO or a related add-on, we get a few users following up after we publish our announcement: “Why am I not seeing the update prompt,” they wonder, “when you just told me this product has been released?” This becomes even more confusing based on the fact that updates to plugins on the WordPress.org repo will not always show an update prompt at the same time as those PRO/paid … Continue reading →

  • Themer’s Guide to The Events Calendar

    Products, Tutorial

    Heads up, fans of The Events Calendar & Events Calendar PRO: we’ve just added a comprehensive guide on how to theme with The Events Calendar, Events Calendar PRO, and the Community Events addon (Eventbrite doesn’t offer the same level of customization..yet). While a lot of folks have theming questions and concerns – usually ones that have been raised at least once in the past – we’ve up until now mostly addressed them individually in the … Continue reading →

  • Add the Post Thumbnail to Your Event List

    Products, Tutorial

    Note: most of this tutorial and the code provided here applies to the 2.x code base and will not be applicable in 3.x Hi everybody! We’ve seen a fair amount of requests to show the WordPress Post Thumbnail for events in the Event List, and it seems like a common enough thing that folks would want to do…so I’m going to walk you through how to do it. A Screenshot of What We’ll Be Doing … Continue reading →

  • Renaming the calendar to something other than “Calendar of Events”

    Tutorial

    This is relatively easy to do. And what’s better is that this doesn’t require you to modify the translation files in any way. Just open the site’s functions.php file in your favorite text editor and drop in this code: Replace “My Title” with whatever you want the title of the calendar to be and you should be all set. Note that this is just for changing the title – if you want the site translated … Continue reading →

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