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OK. Thanks!

Unfortunately, the plugin settings only allow you to change the colors for “today” and “days with events”, not the background color of the bar with the dates.

The problem is that it looked better before the upgrade. It had a nice grid around the calendar days, a more legible font in a better colour and the tooltips showed up with dark grey text on white. I believe this was set in the style.css, which I finally found, but those settings no longer apply. Unfortunately, I don’t know how to customize the new calendar app to get it back the way it was.

Just to let you know, I was able to change the background color of the bubble (tooltip) so that the text is visible. It only took me a whole day to do it. Looked at Jon’s calendar on the website. Looks very nice. Wish I had a clue how to change the header colors like that.

I have agonized about whether to restore my website from backup (not 100% reliable according to support) or to try and fix the problem. After about 20 hours of studying about stylesheets and searching the net I have finally fixed the problem by changing the colour of the bubble or tooltip background. On the WordPress menu, went to Appearance -> Editor. I deleted the old gce code that was there. The I put in the following:

/* Tooltip background colour */
.qtip-content {
   background: #1e73be;
}

Note: I made a clone of my website and tried it out first.

Now I can at least read what’s in the bubble (tooltip). The bubbles look fine, but the calendar still looks crappy in grid view. The font for the event is small and the font colour is dull, and the colour of the day headings does not suit our website theme in either dark or light, but at least it’s somewhat readable. Have no idea how to fix this and I’m too exhausted to try.

If you are looking at this post trying to decide whether to update to this version, my advice is DON’T DO IT unless you are an expert web programmer and are getting paid.

Thanks for posting your solution. My comments that follow are meant for the developers, rather than for someone like you who is posting a solution to their problem.

The solution sounds simple enough, but not much use to volunteer organizations like ours who have to maintain a website previously set up by a developer and who don’t have a budget to hire someone to fix the problem. What’s a styles.css? Where do I find it? How do I find the right code to delete? How do I make a new style? Why wasn’t the stuff from the previous plug-in deleted during uninstall? This is supposed to be a “plug-in” which means to me that it should work out of the box. Especially when we received several emails encouraging us to update to the new version.

Sure hope the developers see this rant. They have totally ignored my posts for help, even though I was told to post on this site to get support.

P.S. I was encouraged to do the update by an email sent by Phil Derkson. When I sent a reply about the problems after update, he told me to put a post on this forum to get support. I’ve posted the problem twice and the so-called developer has replied on many posts before and after my posts, but has totally ignored my post. Some support!

I give up. I’ll be restoring my pre-update website from backup tomorrow. Then I’ll investigate which plugin will be the best replacement for Gcal events.

Wish I had some answers for you. I totally agree with your rant. I will be restoring my pre-update website from backup tomorrow. Then I’ll be looking at which calendar app will be the best replacement.