Event List Widget

[Meaghan]

Hi There:

I was wondering if there is any way to change the formatting of the event list widget so that it puts a bullet point or something before each event listing. My event names are long and the listings all seem to blend together.

If it requires editing a template or php file, I understand the basics of copying the file and uploading it to my server so that the changes don’t get overwritten if there is an update, but I don’t actually know what to do to edit it…

Any help would be great.
Thanks!

Meaghan

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Meaghan,

If it’s just bullet points you’re after you can edit your theme’s style.css to add bullet points to the list. Something like:

.EO_Event_List_Widget ul{
list-style: disc;
}

should work…

[Meaghan]

Hm.. that doesn’t seem to work. Is there anything I can put in the template field in the actual widget area, such as:

[list style: disc] %event_title% – %start{F jS Y}%

I’ve already tried using:

%event_title% – %start{F jS Y}%

and
%event_title% – %start{F jS Y}%

but they just add more space between each event listing, but no bullet point.

Any other suggestions?

[Stephen Harris]

Styling is left entirely to the theme and the plug-in doesn’t provide a way of altering it – except by editing the theme. The code I posted should work – though it may be that the theme isn’t adding the ‘EO_Event_List_Widget’ class in. Without viewing your site I can’t really tell why it isn’t working for you.

[Meaghan]

Makes sense. My site address is http://www.curriecom.ca.

And actually, I do have one other question: when you click on an event it takes you to that event’s page. On this page, is shows the event name twice, once in the “intro-title” section (with the blue grey background), and again as a h2 header in the body of the page. I would really like to only have the one in the body of the page and change the one in the header to just “events”. Is this possible?

Thanks!

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Meaghan

Could you link to a specific event – I couldn’t find one. ‘Hello World’ is just a normal post, no?

Looking at the event list widget, all but the first event have a bullet next to them – am I looking in the right place. (By the way, it appears only the first event in that list is inside the ul tags – so I’m not sure what is going wrong there- are you using a custom template for it? I couldn’t reproduce that bug.

[Meaghan]

Hi again:

1) for the issue with the event list widget:

The only way that I could get any bullet points to show at all (even though the first one is missing) was to just write:
%event_title% – %start{F jS Y}%< / ul >
and not include the < ul > at the beginning.

If I add the < ul > at the beginning it just adds extra space between the event listings. (and I realize now that you couldn’t see the < ul > or < li > that I used in my second post to show what I had already tried.. sorry!).

I’ve also tried:
< li > %event_title% – %start{F jS Y}%< / li > and < ul >< li > %event_title% – %start{F jS Y}%< / li > < / ul >
but they don’t seem to work either.
What can I do to make this list nicer (i.e. add bullets and space between the events)?

2) For the question about the event page template:
Here’s a link to one of my events:
http://curriecom.ca/events/event/urban-development-institute-2013-building-alberta-together-gala-reception/

As you will see, at the top of the page the name of the event is listed twice, like so:

(in grey section)
Urban Development Institute – 2013 Building Alberta Together Gala Reception
Bringing excellence in event management to Alberta for 20 years

(in body of page)
Urban Development Institute – 2013 Building Alberta Together Gala Reception

I would prefer it to say:

(in grey section)
Event Listing
Bringing excellence in event management to Alberta for 20 years

(in body of page)
Urban Development Institute – 2013 Building Alberta Together Gala Reception

What do I have to do/change in the single events template to make it this way?

Thanks for all of your help!
Meaghan

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