[Plugin: Event Organiser] widget width and moving between months

Hi themandril

This is just a problem with the theme. The narrowness could be corrected by tweaking your theme’s style CSS (the plug-in doesn’t add any styling to the widget calendar, but relies on the theme).

The issue regarding navigating the calendar is because the theme doesn’t allow the plug-in to add its own classes to the widget. This classes are are how the plug-in’s javascript files listen for a click (previous / next) and display the correct month.

See this post by me on April 19th 2012: https://www.harriswebsolutions.co.uk/event-organiser/forums/topic/cannot-switch-between-months-on-widget-calendar/page/2/#post-1827

You’ll need to contact the theme developer or make the tweaks yourself – but the problem lies in where the theme registers the sidebar (in functions.php).

After migrating sites, the above link will not work.

Here’s the relevant bit:

Somewhere in your functions.php your theme will make use of register_sidebar. It should look something like:

register_sidebar(array(
  'name' => __( 'Side bar name' ),
  'id' => 'sidebar-id',
  'description' => __( 'Widget area description' ),
  'before_title' => '<h1>',
  'after_title' => '</h1>',
  'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
  'after_widget' => '</div>',
));

Notice the %1$s and %2$s in the before_widget argument. These allow the widget to add their own ID and classes to the widget. It seems your theme does not use class=”widget %2$s”. If you add this in – that should fix the problem. You may want to contact the theme author and alert them to this problem – themes should allow widgets to add their own classes and ID.