Buttons to pick a venue to display calendar only for that venue

[Jessica Sepkowitz]

Hello,

We are opening our second venue in a few weeks, and both venues will have live music 7 days a week. I would like to prompt our guests to select a venue, which will filter the calendar to ONLY display events for that venue.

I do not want to display the calendar with events for all venues with just the filter bar – as that will be confusing to our guests.

Is it possible to create custom buttons or a popup to filter the calendar or do I need to setup WordPress multisite to accomplish this?

Thank you so much for your help!

Regards,
Jessica Sepkowitz

[Barry]

Hi Jessica,

That’s a great question, thanks for posting it!

This is absolutely possible and, as with many requests like this, there are many different ways you might approach it.

Using Filter Bar is one option – since it will allow your users to filter down to events at one or more specific venues – but if as you stated that isn’t suitable in your case we can look at alternatives.

A customization that creates buttons for each of your venues above the calendar (and that, when clicked, modify the event query to focus in on those venues specifically) is another and though this would be entirely viable I’m afraid be beyond the scope of what we can guide you through (you could certainly engage a suitably skilled designer/developer to do this work, though).

Here’s a further and potentially easier/low cost option: make use of category archives. Though it might initially take a little more work to do this when creating events, if instead of – or in addition to – assigning events to venues you also assign them to some matching categories you could then make use of archives like this:

example.com/events/category/venue-one
example.com/events/category/venue-two

You could then present those links in your main navigation menu and/or above the calendar itself (in the form of links that look like “buttons”, if that’s your preference) by making use of the Add HTML before event content option found in the Events ‣ Settings ‣ Display settings page.

Hopefully that gives you some ideas to take forward 🙂

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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