Category Colors

hi,

try this similar link which can help you out – https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/plugin-events-manager-cannot-figure-howto-user-category-colors-in-calendar-smallphp-file?replies=2

a few things also to check…

does it help if you try your calendar on the main site?

also, do you have global tables enabled in your EM MS settings?

if you have a sample link that may help clarify things too

ageionwl – I am trying to make the change in the full calendar to the link color. I’m not advanced enough with programming to figure out how to alter the code in that post to work… Can you assist?

Marcus – It is the main site that is having the issues. The sub-site does not have categories enabled at all. Yes, I have global tables enabled.

I don’t have the code active right now on my site because the client is working with it to add calendar items – and she cannot see them in the calendar if they are white. If I know when you are going to look at it, I can activate it momentarily so you can take a look…

ageionwl – I am trying to make the change in the full calendar to the link color. I’m not advanced enough with programming to figure out how to alter the code in that post to work… Can you assist?

Marcus – It is the main site that is having the issues. The sub-site does not have categories enabled at all. Yes, I have global tables enabled.

I don’t have the code active right now on my site because the client is working with it to add calendar items – and she cannot see them in the calendar if they are white. If I know when you are going to look at it, I can activate it momentarily so you can take a look…

Hi,

actually, you can try this simple step:

go to Events > Settings > Formatting > Calendar > Full Calendar > Event format then

change

#_EVENTLINK

to

<li><a href="#_EVENTURL" style="color:#_CATEGORYCOLOR">#_EVENTNAME</a></li>

ageionwl – that is the original solution I tried, and I have used that exact code in EM on another website, but something with this multisite installation is causing it not to work. I have not touched any of the plugin code.

It yields style=”color:#FFFFFF” – for every event, event those that are uncategorized … and I have none of my categories set to white.

Still stumped.

can you confirm that you’re using our Full Calendar that ships with EM, or are you trying to use the seperate WP FullCalendar plugin we made?

a screenshot of your settings may help, we can double check by reproducing it on a test site.

Yes. I am using the full calendar that ships with EM. I have made no modifications anywhere to the files – just to the settings.

How to I get you a screenshot? I don’t see an upload spot as I type here… Should I upload it to my site and link to it?

yes please, or any image sharing site.

I have posted two screenshots at

One of the settings page and one of what the page looks like with this setting.

maybe you can override #_CATEGORYCOLOR e.g. https://pastebin.com/Hy2pgMwz

*paste in your theme functions.php

That would maybe work if I wanted all my events black, but I can do that with CSS – I want the colors to be managed through the dashboard – as EM is set up to do. But it’s just not working here. I’m stumped.

I just tested this out on a MS w/global tables site and it works fine for me…

That’s great that it’s working for you, but it’s still not working here and it’s too late in the process for me to do a fresh install of the plugin and start over because they have entered years worth of events already.

Oh well, I guess I will just have to tell the client we are stuck with one color for now.

hi again,

can you check the categories of those events who turns white or #FFFFFF and if those categories does have colors set?