Creating additional filter bar items based on "Additional Filters" information

[activeyouth]

We used the code on this page http://pastebin.com/30mZSeKk and it did add a “Taxonomy” item to the filterbar, however, how do we change the data that’s being pulled in to reflect items in the “Additional Filters” area instead of “Taxonomy”?

If you could provide a code sample, that would be very helpful.

Thank you,
Dawn

[Barry]

Hi Dawn,

Looks like you’ve made a great start!

Please note, however, that when it comes to custom development tasks the amount of support we can offer up is – regrettably – somewhat limited.

how do we change the data that’s being pulled in to reflect items in the “Additional Filters” area instead of “Taxonomy”?

I feel like I’m missing some context, here … when you speak of “Additional Filters” what are you referring to?

[activeyouth]

It’s the additional fields that you can set up as a feature of events calendar pro.

You set them up by going to Events> settings>Additional Fields.

After these fields are set up and then selected when setting up an event, I want to be able to filter on them through the filter bar.

[Barry]

Ah, I see – thanks for clarifying 🙂

So Event Calendar PRO’s additional fields are, ultimately, stored pretty much the same way as are regular WordPress custom fields – and so you can take advantage of meta/custom field queries here – but there is a slight difference in that the meta key for these fields usually follow this sort of form:

_ecp_custom_x

Where x is a number. To determine which number exactly for any given field, your code would need to load the current “map” via:

tribe_get_option( 'custom-fields' );

You should get back something like this:

[
    1 => [
        'name'  => '_ecp_custom_1',
        'label' => 'Nearest town',
        ...
    ],
    2 => [
        'name'  => '_ecp_custom_2',
        'label' => 'Age restriction',
        ...
    ], ...
]

Armed with this information, your own custom filter can – through the setup_query_args() method – apply some custom field queries to match whatever has been specified by the current user.

I hope that gives you some ideas – and good luck with the customization 🙂

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