DarthTater

We are both likely experiencing sub-therapeutic caffeine levels.

It’s getting a bit late for this old person, but I will give that a try tomorrow and let you know how it works out. The mini-calendar is FABULOUS!

Later,
Tater

It’s not just a preview.

This is the page (click here).

I’m using Chrome.

Neither of the two calendars feeding into the group has a custom date & time, the feeder calendars just us the default date & time format.

I really appreciate your looking into this. I get the feeling it’s something simple that is not at all obvious.

Hi Nick,

The event template:

<strong>[title]</strong><p>

<div>[start-date format="D"]</div> <div>[start-date format="d"]</div>

<span class="day">[start-custom="D"]</span>
<span class="month">[start-custom="d"]</span>

[location]</p><div>[description]</div><p>[link newwindow="yes"]See more details[/link]</p>

It is a grouped calendar. It should display a list view. I took off all the css referencing it.

I don’t see an option for uploading screenshots.

Custom date setting (in addition to template above):

Advanced -> Date format -> Custom

It shows the date preview as “Sunday, 01 January 2017” but I was thinking that the template tags would override.

I tried to set everything on the “Advanced” options calendar settings to blank, but it just went back to showing everything as above.

Thank you very much for your help.

Any feeling yet, as to why the full day-of-week, & year are showing when my custom dates are set to show only month abbreviation & numeric day?

You are very welcome. Thank you for providing such a useful plugin.

I guess one question is, do I need to define the stuff I don’t want to show, such as the day of the week, then set it to not display?

OK, changed some things to make it easier.

Date is set to Advanced -> Custom

Calendar page (in editor) is (cut & paste):

<strong>[title]</strong><p>

<div>[start-date format="D"]</div> <div>[start-date format="d"]</div>

<span class="day">[start-custom="D"]</span>
<span class="month">[start-custom="d"]</span>

[location]</p><div>[description]</div><p>[link newwindow="yes"]See more details[/link]</p>

Test page is here.

css is stripped down to:

/***********  Style the Simple Calendar big list view  ******************/
/*  calendar id = "2145"  */
/*  Define php date format as
       D d
*/

.simcal-events-calendar-{calendar-2145} {
}

I have a widget on the same page, as you see, but all references are prefaced with #gce_widget-2

Current version of WordPress, theme “Evolve” also current.

Yes, the revisions worked like a charm, and I found the missing curly brace, too. ??

I’ll try to write a review this week. Been using Custom CSS for awhile. The plugin I use most, that’s not on autopilot.

Thank you very much for making it available.

Resolved. For lack of an ending curly brace in the middle of a 500 line file, the css was lost…

Woops, it took almost the entire post as the link text. But you can click on the css and it will get you to the test page.

Woops on the gender. I’d like to blame my eyes — which aren’t all that good — but it’s probably my brain.

Thanks for all the help. Your plugin is very impressive!

Awk! I managed to insult a nice man without even trying. [cringe, grovel] I should change my handle to “Miss Piggy”. Although you may be too young to remember the Muppets.

Your plugin has no problems — but it may not be the easiest solution for me. I certainly did not mean to suggest you should offer a whole bunch more stuff, for free.

I probably don’t need the event input frontend, but do want a particular widget style. However, I’m retired and tinkering with WordPress is much more fun than knitting — which I also don’t know how to do.

I have looked at the html classes & divs generated, which was how I got the styling so far. Filters and plugins are a bit beyond me right now, although I signed up for some Udemy courses when they were having their Christmas sale. I’ll keep plugging away (so to speak).

Have a good week!
Tater

Hiya, Anmari!

I wanted a colspan because I’m trying to make a small popup box with event for a particular day on mouseover. The box is small enough that more than one column makes things not fit and look awful. If I can put in a colspan tag, I think I can get it to look ok.

Regarding the html validation (this is probably a stupid question), can’t you just check for matching braces, or does that require too much memory? Seems that could be done with a pushdown stack (showing my age here). If you could implement that, it would REALLY make things flexible.

Agree about better to style with css. I just couldn’t figure out a way to set up a colspan with the handles I had available. I’ll see about digging around css some more.

I do love the way the events calendar looks, now just want a lean, clean widget. Been trying out Simple Calendar but of course it too has problems.

Making some headway but the html styling on configuring the event list type (for what I hope will become a popup hover box) isn’t working.

I need to put in a <colspan = > tag but even though I checked that the syntax was correct, when I “Update” the “Configure event list type” page, the html disappears.

Otherwise looking very promising.

Could you check your plugin on how it is handling html in the “Configure event list type”?

Thank you.

Yes, that would be the idea. If I can set up the second calendar to display a list just of one days’ events, should be able to figure out a way to have it display on hover but hide otherwise. Maybe(!)

I’ll work on it. Got the small widget calendar mostly looking the way I want, and the big list calendar I think will make my users very happy with the clean look and bigger print.

I’ll let you know how things go.