@caffryfrankel
Thank you for reaching out.
First, I have some good news. We are looking at extending the deadline for legacy view deprecation to give everyone a bit of a breather (and make sure things look nice and tidy under the new views).
By looking at your site, what is going on is that your WordPress theme (Hillstead) features some customizations regarding how The Events Calendar looks and feels.
In other words, it’s “normal” that those customizations don’t necessarily work under the new views.
To answer your question, this leaves you with a couple of options:
- Hire a programmer to port your WordPress theme’s customization to the new views
- Comment out (deactivate) all The Events Calendar customizations from your CSS stylesheet and theme files. I could point you to a few knowledge base articles to get you started.
- “Freeze” your WordPress environment (only subversion updates)
- Consider switching to a theme or page builder that does not feature customizations
The good news is that, based on what I am seeing, adapting the customizations should not be a big effort for a programmer 🙂
At any rate, I would highly recommend creating a staging site (copy of your live site) so that you can experiment without impacting your live site.
In closing, a word of encouragement, these changes are totally worth your while as they will give you access to a world of user-friendly upcoming features (including the ability to really tweak the look and feel of your calendar without the need for a programmer).
Let us know if you have any questions
Geoff
Thank you for your response. As I said, I am not really experienced in the theme building part of Word press. I have a few more questins.
1. We are going to be doing some upgrades on the website in the future, so could adapt the customizations then. Unfortunately, that has been put on hold post-pandemic. Hiring someone to do this right now will not be feasible. Is there any way I can do it?
2. I am not sure what this means. Would this make the page look better until we can get to hiring someone to update? If so, I would love to see the articles as long as they can walk me through step-by-step. I do have a way of doing it on a staging site so won’t wreck the site completely.
3. Does freezing the environment mean not updating The Events Calendar plugin?
4. Not really an option at this point.
Good day,
Thank you for writing back.
The good news is that you probably have a couple of months to get to the bottom of this 🙂
- Since you are not a programmer, I would not recommend tackling the customizations. To adapt things, you will need someone with basic WordPress theme understanding.
- This would make your calendar using the updated designs look better until you can hire someone to adapt things. Basically, the idea is to temporarily disable all customizations without deleting them. This might still be too much, but it’s more attainable than adapting the customizations. Quick run-down below.
- Yes, and ideally not updating WordPress (aside from sub-versions) as some WordPress updates might break older plugins
- OK
Quick Run Down
Please do this on a staging site!
Commenting CSS: use these symbols to make any line of CSS inactive
Your CSS file live here https://www.hillstead.org/wp-content/themes/hillstead/style.css (and maybe within wp-admin > appearance > customize)
Find all rules that contain the string ‘tribe’ and comment them out (make them inactive).
Deactivating template overrides
- Look at your theme files /wp-content/themes/hillstead/
- Try to locate the following folder /wp-content/themes/hillstead/the-events-calendar/
- Rename the folder by adding “z_” as a prefix /wp-content/themes/hillstead/z_the-events-calendar/
All of your customizations should be gone and things will look OK when you update the views.
Best regards,
Geoff
Hey there! This thread has been inactive for a while so we’re going to go ahead and mark it Resolved. Please feel free to open a new thread if any other questions come up and we’d be happy to help.
