Creating Home Page 'list' view vs Events Page 'list' view

[Lucy]

Hi there,

I’ve been working with TEC Pro plugin for a couple days now and have been following along the Themer’s Guide https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/themers-guide/ to create custom templates.

An issue I’ve currently run into though, is how to create a new view template. I need a ‘list’ view for the Home Page that varies slightly from the ‘list’ view on the Events Page. I’ve tried to create a duplicate of the list view with:

/wp-content/themes/[my-theme]/tribe-events/home/ (including the same content as /list/)
and
/wp-content/themes/[my-theme]/tribe-events/home-list.php/

with the shortcode [tribe_events view="home"] in my front-page.php to differentiate from list.php that the events page ‘Default view’ is set to. However, I’m not having any luck.

Am I missing a step here/can this be done?

Thanks for your help!

[Andras]

Hi Lucy

Thanks for going Pro and welcome to the forums! Let me help you with your question.

I’m not quite sure the creating a home directory will work like that.

If you would like your website’s home page to show a calendar, then create an empty page and put the shortcode in there. I can recommend this article for some further details:

Set the Calendar as the Homepage

 

Let me know if this helps or if you have any more questions.

Cheers,
Andras

[Lucy]

Hi Andras,

I already have the shortcode on my Home Page (myurl.com) – the problem is that it’s identical to the Events Page list (myurl.com/events/).

I’d like these templates to be structured differently, so I’m wondering if I can create create a new view/list template?

For example:
On the Home Page list I want the event date to display: November 14
On the Events Page list I want the event date to display: Monday, November 14th, 2016

[Andras]

Hi Lucy,

Achieving that would require customization work, which we are limited in supporting and currently our hands are full.

What you can try is overriding the existing templates, like tribe-events/list.php and adding a conditionals like ‘if ( is_home() )’ to change the behavior based on where the view is embedded.

If you need some expert help I can share with you this list of awesome people of the community who could help you out with this:

https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/find-a-customizer/

I hope this helps to get you started.

Cheers,
Andras

 

[Lucy]

Hi Andras,

Sounds good, for those following this thread:

– I’m copying the contents of tribe-events/list/ into tribe-events/list.php and wrapping the duplicated content in a conditional (to adjust).

<!-- Main Events Content - Home Page -->
<?php if ( is_front_page() ) { ?>
  <?php tribe_get_template_part( 'list/content' ); ?>
<?php } ?>

<!-- Main Events Content - Custom Page -->
<?php if ( !is_front_page() ) { ?>
  <!-- Duplicated contents of tribe-events/list/ to customize -->
<?php } ?>

Thanks!

• This reply was modified 9 years, 6 months ago by Lucy.

[Andras]

Hey Lucy,

Thanks for sharing your solution here, much appreciated!

Allow me to recommend a simplification:


<!-- Main Events Content - Home Page -->
<?php if ( is_front_page() ) {
php tribe_get_template_part( 'list/content' );
}
// Main Events Content - Custom Page
else {
// Duplicated contents of tribe-events/list/ to customize
} ?>

Not much of a difference, but performance wise a bit better to have if … else … than if … if …

 

Since this is marked resolved I am going to close this ticket, but if you need anything else related to this topic or another please post a new topic in the forum and we will help you out.

Good luck with your project!

Cheers,
Andras

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