TEC on genesis framework?

Hi Brian,

Thank for your response to my question. I’ve read the pages you linked, but on the point of my main concern it doesn’t add new information. I had already read some pages I found that said the same and viewed the videos on youtube (although they cover older versions).

It still only says I can’t use the content limiter for archive settings. That seems like a functional change to the rest of my system, since with no alternative I would have to manually put a more-tag in all articles and I don’t like having to do that. It would have been better if you would have given a solution for that, and I can’t imagine there not being one, even if genesis itself has no special filter for it.

After some further searching I found that I can limit the length of my except by adding in functions.php a the_excerpt filter and using substr($excerpt, 0, 270). But then the read more link isn’t generated then, and for my users I want that link too. Perhaps some cleaver programmer can give me a solution that also gives me a the read more button back (please?), then there would be no further extra work in it and the solution would be the same. I can use conditions to set that filter to only the necessary archives, so problem solved.

All in all it seems to me I have to do a lot of work to correct the fact that TEC doesn’t really play nice with the genesis framework. If it’s not by the fact that most genesis framework-users are willing to code or have someone code for them… Well, mature technology would probably no longer ask that of their users.

I will read the info about widgets and shortcodes with some more attention, but it at this time I’m not sure that in that case I can solve my functional need without coding something. I just want to show all future events of a certain category below the content, so visitors see the planning of a course. Perhaps a widget will do that, we’ll see. In most alternative plugins that stuf is considered basic enough to put in the free version.

No need to complain about free versions though, because its a gift and I thank you for the effort en the richness. I understand it’s a business.

Thanks again,

Hans

I understand your position, and I’m sure genesis will say the same the other way around. It’ just that none of you offer a solution, and as a user I have to choose whether I use a plugin that has a problem with genesis (regardless of who will take responsibility for it) or one of the many others that haven’t.

Perhaps I still will find a solution myself, since I’m sure there will be one whatever choices of both development teams (tec and genesis). It’s just a matter of finding it.

Thank you for your response, and have a nice day.

regards,
Hans

Brian, I could kiss you right now. You’re my new hero, and in saying that, I’m also happy persisting on this question.

The result after selecting the default page template and the “Full styles” option is that now my layout is like all other pages (links and lists alike) and that I see the default genesis layout (content-sidebar on my installation).

The only remaining problem now seems to be (and I probably have to further examine that) that the event edit page doesn’t show the usual genesis layout icons, so I’m stuck with the default. Trying to manipulate layout from within functions.php has until now only worked when done generic without a condition (see code). So that will probably take some puzzling.

A condition selecting the ‘tribe_events’ post-type has failed and copying the selection used in your own function also failed. Only the code as followed worked, indicating that it can be done if the right selection criteria is found.

add_filter( 'genesis_pre_get_option_site_layout', themename_full_width_layout' );
function themename_full_width_layout( $opt ) {
	$opt = 'full-width-content';
	return $opt;
}

If you have a suggestion on this, I would appreciate it, but I can search for it some mor too.

All in all not to bad, and thanks a lot for keeping with it too. Perhaps this alternative can be part of the solutions you advice in the pages you shared about integrating TEC in genesis?

Thanks, Brian, for the snippets and looking into the results of it. Good to know that if Simple share isn’t showing up, it’s unrelated to the new snippets or TEC. Thanks for all your help.

Hi Brian,

Looking at the samples in
https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/genesis-theme-framework-integration/

I notice that the full width snippets often use add_filter( ‘genesis_site_layout’… in stead of add_filter( ‘genesis_pre_get_option_site_layout’…

Since the first won’t seem to work I started searching a bit and noticed that all samples to force layout in Genesis (from Brian Gardner and Studiopress) seem to use the action hook ‘genesis_pre_get_option_site_layout’. I wonder if the rest of the samples could better use that hook too. On my website they won’t work with ‘genesis_site_layout’.

Thanks