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Hi
Can you please help me?
I insert into the new text area a shortcode like
[eme_add_booking_form]
[eme_attendees], etc.and I do not see anything on viewing. What shall I do?
Thanks@AI
Where are you put this shortcode ?? Normaly shortcode are used in page.
What do you want to do exactly ?WHERE ARE YOU PUT THIS SHORTCODE ?? NORMALY SHORTCODE ARE USED IN PAGE.
Yes, I tried put shortcodes as it says in the documentation into the newly created pages. But it does not work…
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO EXACTLY ?
To implement very simply something like
http://www.henley.ac.uk/alumni/events/
payments/bookings: http://www.store.reading.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=2&modid=2&deptid=20&catid=5&prodid=623?P.S. I have installed the plugin “Events made easy”, gone through the “documentation” but still quite frustrating – I do not know where to start from and what to do!!!
Since there is no straightforward guidance with simplified examples I wonder if there is a way that someone could patiently help with a step by step guidance with the completer implementation of this plugin from the beginning to the end including booking, PayPal payment and management systems. If I am not alone and most probably there have already been requests like mine in the past in the forum with the complete implementation guidance with examples please kindly refer accordingly.
Thanks in advanceYes I know what you mean.
This is because EME is very flexible. It does not contain any page template.
So the first thing to do is to create a category and put some events.
After that you can create a page like “Upcoming Events” and put the shortcode[eme_events]with some parameters likescope=futurefor upcoming events but this page just print a simple list of the event.
To customize this page you have two options, change the html code in the EME Settings -> Events
or create a template and use it in shortcode parameters liketemplate_id=2where 2 is the id of your template. Bref, for the first or the second solution you must mastering a minimum the html code.Ask for more questions and try to obtain a minimal list of your upcoming events.
Hi
Thank you very much for your initial guidance. It does seem a great plugin with flexible possibilities! But I am stuck so far:1) So the first thing to do is to create a category and put some events. (Done)
2) After that you can create a page like “Upcoming Events” and put the shortcode [eme_events] (Done)
– with some parameters like scope=future (sorry what do you mean by scope=future?)
3) To customize this page you have two options, change the html code in the EME Settings -> Events (how?)
or create a template and use it in shortcode parameters like template_id=2 where 2 is the id of your template (how?).
Sorry, I have tried to figure out it myself for some time how to do it, but I do need your more detailed explanation with some screenshots if it is possible and further help please.P.S. In some forums there are options to upload screenshots with sending private things, wp access for example, etc. I cannot see those here… I am not ready to publish my website yet publicly too. Is there a way we could share some screenshots and wp access, perhaps by e-mails? My e-mail: 123mc321@gmail.com Please kindly reply.
Many thanks
Did you read the initial usage instructions?
See http://www.e-dynamics.be/wordpress/?cat=8
Also, for the explanation for the extra options for each shortcode: again the docs. See http://www.e-dynamics.be/wordpress/?cat=18 for the possible options, their meaning and some examples for [eme_events]Thank you for your reply. I am sorry Franky, but of course I read and I look at it again now. I try to comprehend your documentation but again it is not straightforward to follow and implement…I am lost where to start. Sure it is easy for you and perhaps for some advanced developers – I can only thank you for this product again (but I am a kind of a beginner) – I really want to implement it, but as you have seen other people came up and confirmed that your documentation is not easy and straightforward to understand too (https://wordpress.org/support/topic/start-2?replies=2#post-747707) In that communication you refereed again for this documentation and on the video tutorial which is unfortunately only in Spanish language with no help at all for English speaking people. We need English video tutorial please, if it is of course possible.
No offence, but I find your documentation at the current written state quite difficult to follow without some guidance with practical examples on each level – what each element means with pictures – so can you help it please with plain screenshot examples and with a step by step guidance – where, what, when and how it works?
Again, sorry, I am not complaining it, I am only asking for a help to implement and master your product not only for advanced developers. If not you, maybe sleininger continue to assist…Many thanks
Spanish? That is no good … somehow the links must have changed. I updated the page to show the correct movie (which is not made by me btw).
Also, there’s a link to tips and tricks, and I added another link too.Thank you. Off course I studied those “tricks” and I have already commented you previously in wp forum that those ones are not even near and still quite far away / beyond from the straightforward implementation process that I meant and what I would like simply to achieve (please see the above example links I put) – you said in wp forum it is possible.
As to 3 min video on youtube – it is probably the first thing what people would do and search on youtube, and you can judge yourself what can one learn within 3 min video duration??? Not much…If you can see for other plugins / themes a good comprehensive step by step video tutorials on youtube last about 1 hour or even 2.5 hours (the latter I watched with step by step guidances). Sure, I watched that 3 min video before even approaching you and many thanks who did that video. But the video is just the very very simple first step, basically how to put data for events into your plugin – that was quite straightforward process. I have already done it initially, but what about the next steps and the rest; how to manage it, to interact pages and links, connection to paypal, and many many others of your shortcodes implementation that seems the big problem so far. Just to assure you, we have read your documentation and links, but sorry, it is not straightforward at all…
Still look forward for the help.
Many thanksConcerning the doc:
– the usage doc at http://www.e-dynamics.be/wordpress/?cat=8 talks about how EME works, it tells you about the “format” settings, and what goes in those. It gives you the links to placeholders and shortcodes too.
– if you read the doc about e.g. event shortcodes, you would know what “scope=future” means. If it isn’t clear that “scope=future” means to show future events, then there’s another problem…
– at the bottom of every shortcode doc, there are examples to be found with the explanation of what each does. Again, take a look at the bottom of e.g. http://www.e-dynamics.be/wordpress/?cat=18Concerning a video: creating a video of more than x minutes would take a lot of preparation. If you’re willing to donate 1000 euro’s so I can spend a week on creating a 2 hour video, then you’ll have it. For now, I’m doing this in my own free time so I can’t just go around and leave my daytime job for it …
To summarize the use:
– create events (make sure the state of the event is “public” for basic testing)
– go in the general settings of EME and look at the option called “Default event list format”. That setting defines the layout of 1 line when showing a list of events when using the [eme_events] shortcode on a regular page. Change that setting to your liking using the event placeholders (and any html of your choice) found at http://www.e-dynamics.be/wordpress/?cat=25
– now go on a regular page and enter the shortcode “[eme_events]“. The output of that shortcode is changed by the format setting you just changed. For more options to change which events are shown and how, you can add options to the shortcode [eme_events] as shown in the doc.
– If – on some pages – you want a different layout than the one defined in the generic EME setting “Default event list format”, you can create a template with your wanted format. Then use the template_id option for the [eme_events] shortcode.
– if – for a specific event – you don’t like the general layout defined in “default single event format”, you can change the format when creating an event and changing the setting “single event format”All this is to show you: you have shortcodes on regular pages (with extra options), and “format settings” that contain placeholders that influence the layout (format) of those shortcodes. And since events are not locations or a calendar, you have event placeholders, location placeholders, etc …
So, play around, change a format setting and check the returned layout from the corresponding placeholder.Everything in EME is about shortcodes and relevant placeholders … and many plugins in wordpress work in a similar manner.
Thank you for the summary. Will try to study it…
Come on AI you gonna make it. For a minimum design you must know the HTML language. Do you know it ?
Once you will have understood the functioning of this plugin you will be just delighted.
Thank you sleininger for your support. I wish I knew the HTML language. Alas!
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