Title: Customizing
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Customizing

 *  Resolved [joanmershon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joanmershon/)
 * (@joanmershon)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-10/)
 * This seems to be exactly what I was looking for – but I can’t figure out how 
   to change it from Yoga1, Yoga2, etc to classes that I teach. Also I’d like to
   modify the “Account Type” for new classes.
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/classdex/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/classdex/)

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 *  Plugin Author [johndaskovsky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johndaskovsky/)
 * (@johndaskovsky)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-10/#post-4055734)
 * Hey Joan,
 * That’s a customization that I’m working on. Not available yet, but hopefully 
   in an upcoming version. Let me know if you’ve got other questions.
 * Thanks,
    John
 *  Thread Starter [joanmershon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joanmershon/)
 * (@joanmershon)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-10/#post-4055744)
 * Thanks John – any guesses as to a time frame? weeks? months? eventually?
 *  Plugin Author [johndaskovsky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johndaskovsky/)
 * (@johndaskovsky)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-10/#post-4055745)
 * I hope to have that option available by the end of September. You’re primary 
   concern is the “Account Type”, right? — this effects how ClassDex subtotals income,
   so that you know how much each type of class is earning.
 * The other options above Account Type, are the check boxes “Yoga Classes”, “Seminar”,“
   Meditation”, “Wellness” and “Philosophy” — these actually determine which classes
   to send to different displays on your website. There are two display types: (
   1) a list view called “Yoga Classes” corresponds to all classes that have “Yoga
   Classes” checked, and (2) a detailed view called “Seminars” which corresponds
   to any classes that have “Seminar”, “Meditation”, “Wellness” and/or “Philosophy”
   checked. “Meditation”, “Wellness” and “Philosophy” are sub-categories of the 
   seminar display so that you can display sub-groups of all of the classes. The
   shortcodes that are used for these various displays are:
 *     ```
       [classdex_seminars start="yyyy-mm-dd" stop="yyyy-mm-dd" type="seminar"]
       [classdex_seminars start="yyyy-mm-dd" stop="yyyy-mm-dd" type="meditation"]
       [classdex_seminars start="yyyy-mm-dd" stop="yyyy-mm-dd" type="wellness"]
       [classdex_seminars start="yyyy-mm-dd" stop="yyyy-mm-dd" type="philosophy"]
       [classdex_yoga_classes start="yyyy-mm-dd" stop="yyyy-mm-dd"]
       ```
   
 * For an upcoming update I’ll try to clarify this language and give more flexibility
   to name the categories what you want.
 * Hope that helps,
    John
 *  Thread Starter [joanmershon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joanmershon/)
 * (@joanmershon)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-10/#post-4055751)
 * End of September would be wonderful. I need to change both the Account Type &
   the Check Boxes to suit my classes. Let me know if you need any beta testing 
   or if there is any other way I can help.
 *  Plugin Author [johndaskovsky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johndaskovsky/)
 * (@johndaskovsky)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-10/#post-4055754)
 * Sounds good! Testing would be a big help — any feedback you can provide would
   be very much appreciated. I posted better documentation yesterday at [http://howtononprofit.wordpress.com/classdex/](http://howtononprofit.wordpress.com/classdex/)
   If there are holes in the documentation or particular functions that need more
   explanation please let me know.
 * Thanks for your support!
    John
 *  Plugin Author [johndaskovsky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johndaskovsky/)
 * (@johndaskovsky)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-10/#post-4055774)
 * Hey Joan,
 * The customizations that you requested are now available with update 1.1.3. Let
   me know how it works for you!
 * Thanks,
    John
 *  Thread Starter [joanmershon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joanmershon/)
 * (@joanmershon)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-10/#post-4055775)
 * Looks good. I do have a few questions/comments:
 * ID – I would like a bit more room. I use a date code, plus class type for the
   ID – 8 char for the date and another 5-6 char for the class would be great.
 * Image(Location) – is this for the class location, an image for the class?
 * List/Detail – this needs a complete explanation – perhaps even with examples 
   of several possible uses. Also this did not change int he exported CSV file.
 * The one thing that is driving me crazy right now – I can’t figure out how to 
   put this out where the public can see it to enroll in classes. Give me the “I’m
   a 5yr old” version? I am also missing the “how do I get paid” section 🙂
 * I am SO excited as we will start the first class registration on Monday. This
   will be much easier than my other plans if I can get it up and running in time.
 *  Thread Starter [joanmershon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joanmershon/)
 * (@joanmershon)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-10/#post-4055776)
 * I am sorting through things more –
 * I found the information for both the Image/Location question and the List/Detail
   questions I had.
 * I also figure out how to display a list of classes open for enrollment.
    When
   I display the list, [this](https://www.dropbox.com/s/j8sha9qnfi63j2q/sshot-1.png)
   is what it looks like.
 * Any thoughts on how I can fix the spacing issue??
 *  Plugin Author [johndaskovsky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johndaskovsky/)
 * (@johndaskovsky)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-10/#post-4055777)
 * Hey Joan,
 * Seems like you’re figuring most things out. Have you setup Cart66? Connecting
   Cart66 to paypal (or whatever gateway you use) will enable students to make payments.
   Other questions about “How you get paid”? It’s important to note that ClassDex
   does not receive information directly from Cart66, from Paypal, or from which
   ever payment gateway you use. So when you receive a payment/registration through
   paypal, you need to enter the information in ClassDex — it will not appear there
   automatically.
 * About your first question… The ID is really meant to be a very short number (
   or letters and numbers) to identify a particular class without repeating information.
   It is used to quickly identify the correct class when you have classes that have
   the same name. At our studio we keep this to just 3 characters (at just 3 characters,
   we could teacher over 1000 classes a year without repeating an ID). This gets
   used in a few places (when displaying a Detail version of the classes and when
   sending the class registration to paypal) — and it would look funny and would
   be less useful if this got too long. Also, the length of this variable is set
   in the database, so changing it is not so easy. Long story short… I won’t be 
   changing that. Max length is 10 characters.
 * I’m working on generalize the style options for how the shortcodes get displayed.
   This should improve the look of the displays, and will give you the flexibility
   to make changes if needed. Hope to have that update pushed out by the end of 
   the day.
 * Thanks so much, your feedback is really helping to improve and generalize the
   plugin!
 * Best,
    John
 *  Plugin Author [johndaskovsky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johndaskovsky/)
 * (@johndaskovsky)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-10/#post-4055778)
 * Okay, version 1.1.4 now has improved shortcode display. Hope that makes things
   look better! If you need to customize the table, the custom css for classdex 
   can be found in: classdex/css/classdex.css
 * Let me know how that works for you.
 * Thanks,
    John
 *  Thread Starter [joanmershon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joanmershon/)
 * (@joanmershon)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-10/#post-4055779)
 * So I re-think my normal ID numbers. You say “not happening”, I’m good with that
   🙂 I am very aware what seems simple on the user side can be a nightmare on the
   back-end.
 * The new display is great! It is much easier to read. It still looks a bit funny
   to have the Class so connected to the instructor name: RentWell-Joan. If I was
   formatting it myself, I would prefer to see it like this: RentWell (_Joan_) That
   makes a clear distinction between the class title and the instructor name. It
   would also be adaptable to pretty much and class set up I could see someone using
   the “instructor” field to specify some sort of class restriction: like Women 
   only, Member only, Public, etc. Is that something I can change in the CSS?
 *  Plugin Author [johndaskovsky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johndaskovsky/)
 * (@johndaskovsky)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-10/#post-4055780)
 * Glad that’s working better! If you’d like to change the formatting of how the
   title/teacher are displayed, in the plugin editor go to classdex/includes/shortcode.
   php
 * Line 158 reads:
    `$content .= "<tr><td>{$row['title']} - {$row['teacher']}</td
   >";`
 * Change that to:
    `$content .= "<tr><td>{$row['title']} ({$row['teacher']})</td
   >";`
 * That should do the trick. If you are familiar with php all of the changes for
   how the shortcodes display can be made from that file.
 *  Thread Starter [joanmershon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joanmershon/)
 * (@joanmershon)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-10/#post-4055783)
 * You are AWESOME!!
 * [Here ](https://www.dropbox.com/s/bvgs1c3oy5sgokd/sshot-92.png)it is working.
 * I wish every author was as responsive as you are.
 *  Plugin Author [johndaskovsky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johndaskovsky/)
 * (@johndaskovsky)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-10/#post-4055784)
 * Thanks! After you’ve used the plugin for a little while I would really appreciate
   if you wrote me a review.
 * Best of luck with your classes,
    John

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