Creating a new template for venues

[Steve]

So I have a bit of a tricky request…

I’m wanting to create a new template for the venues. I’m a bit new to all this coding stuff, however with previous templates for pages – I have managed to collect all the posts from a certain category using the code:

// The Query
$args = array(
‘cat’ => 67,
‘orderby’ => ‘title’,
‘order’ => ‘ASC’,
‘posts_per_page’=>10,
);
$query = new WP_Query( $args );

Obviously getting the certain category posts with the ID 67. I’m not exactly sure about what code I would use to get the venues. To make it more confusing, I was wondering if there was a way that I could have three different pages for the venues… So having a page for the museums, theatres etc…

If this is impossible using the plugin then I will create separate posts, and build the pages myself – however then my question would be, how can I change the links in the events, to take readers to the correct venue pages/posts.

And intriguing one I know. Can anyone help me out?

Thank you

Dulcie

[Barry]

Hi Dulcie,

That should certainly be possible. You would need to set the post_type argument correctly (for venues it is tribe_venue or you can refer to it with TribeEvents::VENUE_POST_TYPE) if you want to focus only venues.

Splitting them into three views by venue type is a little more involved – without knowing how you are going to make this distinction it’s hard to offer any advice – but I’m afraid in any case we will really need to bow out and leave this sort of customization to you 🙂

Good luck!

[Steve]

When you say refer to it with TribeEvents::VENUE_POST_TYPE, where do I refer to it?

And do you mean replacing the ( ‘cat’ =>67, ) With ( ‘post_type’ => tribe_venue )

Told you I was new to this *sigh, haha, very much appreciate the help!

Dulcie

[Barry]

Hi Dulcie,

That’s ok, we definitely appreciate not everyone is familiar with coding for WordPress. That said, you’d really need to do some reading both in terms of the WordPress docs for WP_Query and PHP in general to be confident your work is going to be robust and reliable and do exactly what you want 🙂

Basically though you could use TribeEvents::VENUE_POST_TYPE instead of ‘tribe_venues’ when setting the post_type argument – the advantage being if we change the name of the venue post type in the future your code should still work. However, if you’re uncomfortable with this just use ‘tribe_venues.’

As we’re talking about a customization here, however, I’m afraid we’ll have to bow out and wish you luck – good luck!

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