colors not working, plugin still supported?

I’ll look into this as soon as I can but have you tried switching to a default theme?

yes i switched to all the defaults that start with 20 (2012,2015,…)
thank you!

i just tried 2017, that works

how do i get it to work with the main site theme?

the theme is custom, from a developer long before i got here

he left no documentation

just tried it again, it works with twenty fourteen also

the dev site (clwtr.us) is set to 2014

the live site (clearwatercasino.com) is set to the theme i would like it to work with if possible

2014 is set with tribe events style for css

the clearwater site is set with skeleton styles

one other piece of information, that may or may not be useful

the previous revision of the calendar at 4.1.4 calendar and 4.1.3 pro worked with colors provided by the previous developer hacking something undocumented together using the advanced custom fields plugin

after update today to current versions of both plugins those colors went away, but the color picker for them still shows in the event calendar backend

thank you

Michael,

Can you set the main site back to your theme. There’s obviously some conflict in the theme. Hopefully I’ll be able to find it and find a solution for you.

I’m not quite sure I understand what you mean about the Advance Custom Fields plugin. This shouldn’t effect Category Colors unless you’re creating template overrides for the calendar pages.

You should probably use Tribe Event Styles instead of Skeleton.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 12 months ago by Andy Fragen.
• This reply was modified 7 years, 12 months ago by Andy Fragen.

Andy:

Thank you for looking into this.

Both sites are now using the same theme, and tribe event styles also.

It is better for me to try things on the clwtr.us site, as that is the test site that will go into production at the end of the month.

The clearwater casino site is live and booking hotel rooms, so I would like to make changes to clwtr first, before applying changes to the real clearwater site.

We are using the w3tc cache plugin, the behavior occurs with it either on or off, also after clearing cache on the site.

currently, the only plugins active on the clwtr.us site are event calendar ones (the core plugin, the pro plugin, and your color plugin) all others are deactivated

thank you again!

Michael

also, do i need to add something to functions.php?
thx

So this is what I see. Your previous developer used !important in many places for the tribe CSS selectors. This is overriding many parts of the Category Colors CSS. You will have to see which of these you can remove without effecting other parts of the site. If something effects another part of the site it usually means a more specific selector must be chosen.

Traditionally dark background themes are difficult to match the calendar. You might consider lightening the calendar background as a whole, though we should still be able to get closer.

Absolutely you should change the staging site and be happy before committing changes to the production site.

If you’re not comfortable editing the CSS you might need to hire another developer
for that, sorry.

All that said the following changes will help you go far.
style.css:1645 – remove !important from border
style.css:1613 – make background a non-white color (a dark gray maybe)
style.css:898 – remove the !important
style.css:1662 – remove the !important from background and color
style.css:340 – remove the !important

• This reply was modified 7 years, 12 months ago by Andy Fragen.

Hi Andy:

Thanks for the assistance.
I made a backup of style.css, saved it to make local pc, made the changes you referenced above, saved the changes to the css file in wordpress, updated the site, and cleared cache using W3TC. I have an item in the calendar at https://www.clearwatercasino.com/events/2017-05/ on saturday the 6th, free live music – that 80’s show, it has a category of free-live-music, it should be yellow (#FFCD00) with a black bar to the left (#000000)

I have tried it in both IE and Chrome and don’t see the color.

What would you suggest now?

thx

michael

i put the old stylesheet back
when i view it in IE I see the yellow, but a bunch of white backgrounds also
i think i can fix that via css assigning the background to a dark color

but chrome does not follow the same thing, just stays the colors when i first started

ideas? it is currently set at tribe event styles, with the cache cleared

thx!

michael