General Settings

Event Espresso version 4 Documentation for the Settings (In Progress)

The general settings page covers most of the site wide settings that you will need. It is split up into 6 tabbed areas.

Critical Pages

This section lists the pages that Event Espresso needs in order to function. Should you wish to change a page that is used you will need to move the shortcode to the new page and then allocate it here. Otherwise your registrations will not work correctly.

This section also provides a status of the page to show you at a glance if something is not right.

Templates

This section deals with the general front end settings.

Event Listings:

These settings affect the main event listings and any listings provided by the [EVENT_LIST] shortcode

• Display Descriptions – toggle the event descriptions on or off
• Use SHORT Descriptions – if your event description contains a MORE tag, setting this to yes will cut off the event description at that point. Otherwise the full description is shown.
• Display Addresses – toggles the address on or off.

Registration Pages:

These settings affect individual event registration pages.

• Display Addresses – toggles the address on or off.

Themes & Styles:

These settings affect the overall look of the events.

• Use Built-in Style Sheets – turns on Themeroller and the default stylesheet. If you want to use your own custom styles or let the theme style the events, set this option to no.
• Themeroller Style – choose a Themeroller style to change the looks of your events. This will only work if Use Built-in Style Sheets is set to yes.
• Add a custom style sheet – upload a custom stylesheet.  This will only work if Use Built-in Style Sheets is set to yes.

Google Maps

This section provides numerous options for the Google maps that can be added to events.

Activate Google Maps – turns it on or off.

Reg Page Map Settings

Options for maps displayed on single event registration pages.

• Set Map Width – the map width in pixels. Please just use a number and no additional information like px
• Set Map Height – the map height in pixels.
• Set Map Zoom level: Range 1 – 19 – this is the default zoom level for the map.
• Set Map Navigation Overlay – to be confirmed
• Keep Map Navigation Small – to be confirmed
• Set Map Type Control –   Default    Horizontal    Dropdown
• Set Map Alignment  –        None    Align Left    Align Center    Align Right

Events List Options

• Set Map Width – the map width in pixels. Please just use a number and no additional information like px
• Set Map Height – the map height in pixels.
• Set Map Zoom level: Range: 1 – 19 – this is the default zoom level for the map.
• Set Map Navigation Overlay – to be confirmed
• Keep Map Navigation Small – to be confirmed
• Set Map Type Control –   Default    Horizontal    Dropdown
• Set Map Alignment  –       None    Align Left    Align Center    Align Right

Your Organisation

This whole settings tab is about you and your organisation, as well as some core Event Espresso details.

Your Event Espresso License Key

This section also contains an area to add your Event Espresso licence key to allow you to get one click updates whilst you have a currently valid licence.

Contact Information and Company Logo

The contact details that you add here, including the logo, will be used in various places most prominently invoices.

Event Espresso User eXperience Improvement Program

This is an optional system to help us to improve your Event Espresso experience.

By opting to send us anonymous secure data, we will be able to tell general patterns about the plugins usage meaning we know what areas of the plugin most of our customers are using and we can put focus on improving those areas.

Admin Options

WordPress Dashboard

Upcoming Events Widget

Activates/de-activates the Upcoming Events Widget in the WordPress Dashboard so that you can see a list of upcoming events as soon as you log in.

How many days into the future?

Defines how far in the future the Upcoming Events Widget will show, in days.

Time and Date Settings

Clarification of the current date/time settings and a link the the WordPress settings.

Please note that the date and time settings are, for the most part, controlled by the WordPress settings.

Debug/Logging Options

Enable full logging

This will turn on/off the logging system to help with debugging. Th file is available at: /wp-content/uploads/espresso/logs/

Warning!

Please use caution when using this feature. These files may be publicly available.

Also, please remember to turn this off after use, otherwise the file may grow very large.

Enable Remote Logging

Enables the logging file to be sent to another location.

Remote Logging URL

If the above is set to yes, this is the url where the file will be sent to, it must be a write enabled location.

Promote Event Espresso

You can help Promote Event Espresso by displaying a link to our site on each of your events. You can even generate commissions on every sale that comes from one of your links.

Link to Event Espresso in your Registration Page

This turns the link to Event Espresso on or off.

Event Espresso Affiliate ID

If you have the above on and you enter your affiliate ID here, then any sales that resulted from someone visiting Event Espresso via your affiliate enabled link will gain you a commission.

Countries

These settings are used throughout the plugin in different areas, so it’s important to get them set up.

Country name – The name of the country you are in/do business in.

Activate Country – When set to yes, the country details will be shown in various options throughout the plugin.

States/Provinces – Here you can add different regions applicable for your country.