Calendar in Root of WP install

[cmeigs]

Is there a way to run this plugin the root of the application? For example, I have a WP install that all I want is this calendar. I want the users to be able to go to http://www.site.com and see the calendar and not http://www.site.com/events. I attempted to modify the “events URL slug” but it wouldn’t take empty string. Suggestions on how I can pull this off?

[Barry]

Hi cmeigs: you could take the same approach we follow on our demo site and simply use a redirect plugin to take all visitors landing on the home URL to the main events URL.

Actually incorporating the calendar within the homepage/frontpage is possible but is the sort of custom development task we regrettably can’t help with.

Hope that helps!

[cmeigs]

Thank you Barry, I appreciate the tip. Can you elaborate on a starting point for the custom development route? I assume you are suggesting that within the homepage template we do a custom call to the calendar control?

[Barry]

Essentially, yes. Things to look at/consider in no particular order:

* You can pull in templates (like the month view) with tribe_get_view()
* Pulling in a template doesn’t guarantee that the supporting resources (Javascript, stylesheets) will be set up so you’d need to take care of this
* You might want to think over duplicate content issues (are you eliminating the main events view at /events/ ?)
* If you want to remove the /events/ slug entirely so it is never used or exposed you will need to think about how you will handle generated links

Beyond that – and any tips from the community you might find on the forum – I’m afraid you’re on your own, but good luck!

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