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@ diablo243 — no, I didn’t alter the template files. I’m using twentyten and it worked just fine with the default template. Just a fluke, I guess. I certainly didn’t plan for it to happen. I don’t know if it’s worth it to pull your hair out over this.

@ anyone who will listen — the start/end time feature seems to be completely jacked on this plugin. Super irritating.

@ bobjung — does Google’s start / end time feature work? what about giving you the option of hovering over an event on the calendar and seeing an excerpt? do you have a link to a live google calendar I can check out? I might switch…

@bobjung, yes it is a pain in the ass… I’m having trouble getting the start time / end time to display, but other than that it’s ok. I feel like I’m overly-picky since it took so long to install. How’s the google calendar plugin? Got any specific pros / cons?

@mikebtoronto… If you want the sidebar to show up on a normal page, I was able to make this happen by going to… Dashboard / Appearance / Widgets … And then dragging “Events List Widget” into the sidebar. You can tinker with display and save settings there. And then once you have the widget installed, it pops up on my twenty-ten “default” template. See an example on my post-less blog here: https://www.badabinghostel.com/binglife

UNFORTUNATELY, I don’t think that the side bar is ever supposed to display on the same page as the calendar. My calendar shows up on a blank page with nothing else. From the other posts/complaints I’ve read, I think you choose between the calendar display and the list without more advanced coding knowledge and tinkering in the plugin’s template / editor, but that’s def. beyond my capacity.

Good luck!!!

If you want, you can see it on my website here:
https://www.badabinghostel.com/category/events/upcoming

But as you can see, I’m having trouble getting the start/end time to show up… *sigh*

It’s true that the documentation for this is not very helpful. I’ve pieced together stuff from another thread. Here’s what I did…

[theme: twenty-ten]
[note: my calendar is not embedded in a pre-existing page, but rather exists on a new one. From what I’ve read, this calendar is not able to be embedded on other pages without knowing much more about template coding, which I don’t…]

1. Download and activate plugin: “The Events Calendar” Dink around with any display preferences in the Settings / The Events Calendar section
2. Download and activate plugin: “Page Links To” After you activate it, this will cause a new field which says “Page links to…” to show up on the bottom of every “new post” and “new page” site. So for now, just download, activate and let it be.
3. Create a new page with ANY url / slug that you choose EXCEPT https://www.yourdomain.com/events so, I created https://www.mydomain.com/binglife This can be a completely random slug. When you create the page, leave it blank. On mine, I’ve left it with the default template for 2010. Then I published it. **Actually, now that I write this, I’m not sure that it’s a necessary step, but I’m too afraid/lazy to delete the page and see what happens so… I think this might be something extra that I did from following all the random instructions but…**
4. Create a new post. The title of your post will show up in the heading for the event. The main text of the post is a general description of your event (note: hyperlinks show up in the “list” mode, but are unclickable in the “calendar” mode — grrrr). Below the main text box, enter details about date, start time, cost… On the right, make sure that the “Events” category is checked. <b>BELOW THAT, at the bottom,</b> you will find the “Page Links To” box. Here you can paste a couple of options:

• https://www.yourdomain.com/category/events — for a calendar view
• https://www.yourdomain.com/category/events/upcoming — for a list view

• Then, publish your post.

I currently have one event, but it seems to be working so far. *fingers crossed*

I really hope this works for you. I don’t know why it’s so confusing with this, or why the makers didn’t put something like this on the actual plug-in website, rather than the random screenshots. :-S

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No it wasn’t intentional at all. It was the result of naive copy-pasting. So I changed it to “direction:rtl” to “ltr” Issue resolved. ??

Balance has been restored in the Bada Bing Hostel universe. Thank you sooo much.
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This is unrelated, so I could start a new thread because I haven’t seen anything about it in the last few pages of FAQ posts for Twenty Ten but…

Is there any way to remove the black bar ABOVE the header image?

Ok, I made a child theme with limited success. The only thing I’ve done is make a style.css document in a subfolder of themes.

Everything seems to be fine — and now I’m able to name my site and suppress the display of it on the page (one small success!). HOWEVER, I now have some bizarre situation where the alignment is on crack and my periods are moved to the BEGINNING of a line. I’ve been playing around — changing various declarations’ “float: right” to “float: left” — but that isn’t working. Clearly there’s a bigger issue here.

Maybe I need to make changes in the “One column, no sidebare” template?!

Any ideas? ??

It isn’t a refresh issue. I’ve been refreshing a bunch of times for various reasons. But I don’t have a child theme yet. I’m working on making one but it’s kind of like shooting in the dark for me. ??

ohhh… because if I haven’t made a child theme, then I can’t make any changes to the template? lemme try that… amateurs! ha! *blushing*

I don’t know if you found anything for this but you can check out my site. ?? There are still some things I want to change but…

https://www.badabinghostel.com/

@alchymyth

Sorry for the late response!!! My dashboard says I’ve got Twenty Ten 1.1 Is that alright?

My website is:
https://www.badabinghostel.com/

(I’ve just deleted my site name so that nothing displays above the banner at the moment)

Thanks SO much for your help ??

I guess I’m a newbie compared to you guys! I tried editing the “display: none” from my dashboard but it’s not working. I tried it with and without a space after the colon. This is what I have so far…

/* =Header
————————————————————– */

#site-title {
display:none;
}

#site-description {
clear: left;
float: left;
font-style: normal;
}

:-S Do I need to download these files to my computer or am I making a more simple mistake???