Conditional to display add event button in sidebar

[jewschool]

Hi,

I’m trying to create a conditional to display a button in my sidebar linking to the community event submission form.

I’m using the following code to invoke the button, but it doesn’t seem to be working. Am I missing something? Am I using the wrong conditionals?

if is_page('events') || tribe_is_event() {
 echo '<center><a class="button-st button-with-icon button-with-icon-16 ico-st ico-plus button-custom-color" href="/events/community/add" target="_parent" style="background-color: #16a085;"><span>Submit an Event</span></a></center>';
 };

[Barry]

Hi Benjamin,

You generally ought to wrap the conditional in parentheses:

if ( is_page('events') || tribe_is_event() ) { /*...*/ }

Please also note that event views are not actually pages in the traditional WordPress sense (they are not editable posts stored in the database) so if that first test – is_page(‘events’) – is trying to detect requests for the main events page it won’t work (though if you happen to have an actual WordPress page called events and that is one of the things you are looking for then of course it’s completely fine).

I hope that helps 🙂

[jewschool]

Duh, I can’t believe I forgot the parens.

That said: Is there another conditional I can se to check if it’s the main calendar page?

[Barry]

None built in that specifically do just that, but you could potentially use a custom function like this one (modify to suit your needs!):

/**
 * Returns true if the current page is the main events page, else returns
 * false.
 *
 * Criteria for the "main events page" here means:
 *
 *     - We're on an events page
 *     - It is the same view as the default events view
 *     - No particular date has been specified
 * 
 * @return bool
 */
function is_main_events_page() {
	global $wp_query;

	// We needn't worry about non-event requests
	if ( ! tribe_is_event_query() ) return false;

	// Get the default view and currently requested view
	$default = TribeEvents::instance()->default_view();
	$current = $wp_query->get( 'eventDisplay' );

	// Was a date specifically set? If so, it isn't truly the "main" events page
	$date_set = $wp_query->get( 'eventDate' ) . isset( $_REQUEST['tribe-bar-date'] ) ? 1 : 0;

	// Compare and contrast!
	return ( $default === $current && ! $date_set );
}

[Barry]

Hi! It’s been a while so I’m going to go ahead and close this thread. If we can help with anything else, though, please don’t hesitate to create new threads as needed. Thanks!

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