Hi Daniel,
I hope you are well today and thank you for your questions.
After reading your post i think the title of the topic should not be “Appointment+ issues!” but should be “Appointment+ questions!“.
1. would like to know how to change the ‘Our Schedule for Jan 2015’ to my own cusom wording. (I have spent almost 9 hours trying to do this, watched the YouTube clip, read forums etc. but yet I am failing. PLEASE HELP)
I think you are using app_monthly_schedule appointment shortcode if this is the case then you can change it by using title argument of this shortcode as following.
[app_monthly_schedule title="Our schedule for START"]
2. I want to be able to customise ‘click a free day to apply for an appointment’
You can change it using logged argument of appointment shortcode as following.
[app_monthly_schedule logged="Click a free day to apply for an appointment."]
You will find more information about these shortcodes and its arguments on the following path in the admin area of your site.
Admin Area -> Appointments -> Shortcodes
3. I would like (if possible) to remove the grey background and have it blend in with my website container colour (white)
4. I want to be able to keep my fonts uniform with the rest of the fonts selected on my site
I am not getting any Grey background or the font change for the Appointments UI displayed on the front end of my site using Twenty Fifteen theme.
Could you please share me the appointment page URL from your site where it’s displaying so that i can help you to change it from grey to white?
5. This calendar isn’t displaying on my live site, only when I’m signed in to WordPress and then go to the site whilst still signed in.
Please share me the appointment page URL to test it.
Are you using any membership plugin or any other plugin?
It’s displaying fine on my site for both logged in and logged out users.
This can also be due to plugin/theme conflict.
To find find out plugin/theme conflict you can just try on your development site using default WordPress theme like Twenty Thirteen and deactivating all other plugins as displayed in the following flowchart to know which theme/plugin is conflicting if any.
https://premium.wpmudev.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Support-Process-Support-Process.png
6. It seems to have the ‘your name’, ‘your email’ and ‘your phone’ fields already filled out with my details – I want this to remain blank.
When you are logged in in the site, then the system takes your name, email, addresses, phones etc from your user profile page and filled out the appointment form with these details for your convenience.
To restrict it from filling out the data automatically try adding the following code in the wp-config.php file of your WordPress install.
define('APP_USE_LEGACY_ADMIN_USERDATA_OVERRIDES', false);
Also make sure the browser that you are using is not autofilling form data.
7. I want to be able to also edit the ‘your name’ ‘your email’ and ‘your phone’ fields with custom wording, as well as ‘Lasts (approx.), ‘date and time’ and ‘service name’ – again I only want to modify the wording.
You can change the ‘your name’ ‘your email’ and ‘your phone’ fields with custom wording by suing the app_confirmation shortcode and its arguments as following.
[app_confirmation name="Your name:" email="Your email:" phone="Your phone:"]
To change the words Lasts (approx.), ‘date and time’ and ‘service name’ try adding the following code in the functions.php file of your child theme and edit the text to be displayed in the following code.
function change_translate_text( $translated_text ) {
switch ( $translated_text ) {
case 'Service name: ' :
$translated_text = 'Custom Service name: ';
break;
case 'Date and time: ' :
$translated_text = 'Custom Date and time: ';
break;
case 'Lasts (approx): ' :
$translated_text = 'Custom Lasts (approx): ';
break;
}
return $translated_text;
}
add_filter( 'gettext', 'change_translate_text', 20 );
8. Is it possible for the drop down menu containing my services to appear once a day/date and time has been selected – like a chronological sequence to guide the user through the process to the end?
The correct chronological order is first select the services and then select the day/date and time of that service which you can achieve by using the “AJAX shortcode” add-on of appointment plugin which is only available in the following pro version of the appointment plugin.
https://premium.wpmudev.org/project/appointments-plus/
9. I would like to have custom staff users on the calendar whereby my clients can schedule appointments. I had issues setting this up also.
Could you please tell me a bit more in detail what you meant by “custom staff users” so that i can help you?
Best Regards,
Vinod Dalvi
