Daily Specials & Whats On Events Ordering

[pixelfish]

Thanks Brendan for the reply.

I purchased the EVENT PRO plugin and to tried to replicate the 2 x examples I provided and test some of the ideas you proposed using the plugins features/shortcodes and have some questions…

DAILY SPECIALS
http://belrosehotel.stagingwebsite.com.au/daily-specials/
1. I created 7 x recurring events for each day of the week (Mon – Sun) then I created 1 x event that recurs ‘Everyday’. It currently sits in 2nd position. Is it possible to custom order the events to be by the ‘Day’ first, then followed by events that recur ‘Everyday’?
2. How can you show ‘ADDITIONAL EVENT FIELDS’ on the event archive page? I can see it on the result page, but really need it to appear beneath the Even Title on the archive page.

WHATS ON
http://belrosehotel.stagingwebsite.com.au/whats-on/
1. We have events such as ‘Ongoing Sporting Events’ that don’t really have a fixed date but are treated as ‘ongoing’ events. How should I treat this?

RECURRING EVENTS
1. Because most of our events such as ‘daily specials’ actually ‘never’ expire. What is the best setting to choose for the following:
– Clean up recurring events after [XX]
– Create recurring events in advance for [XX]

Let’s say I set ‘Clean up recurring events’ to 10, doesn’t that mean I would have re-create the event after 10 occurrences? Im just aware if the number is large, the system is creating 100’s of events in the backend which is quite confusing for the user who might not necessarily see them as individual events.

Thanks

[Jennifer]

Hello,

Thanks for reaching out!

The events in list-style views will be ordered by their start time – recurring event instances are treated as single events when it comes to ordering. In other words, if you have an event on a Sunday that recurs every day of the week along with a single event on Tuesday, the instances of the recurring event for Sunday and Monday will be displayed, then the single event on Tuesday and the recurrence for Tuesday (the order here will depend on what time each event starts). To change this order (in any way) you would need to customize the query for the views that you want to change the order on.

To add additional event info to the archive views, you can do a template override. Our themer’s guide has instructions on this.

For your ongoing sporting events, this depends how/where you would like them to be displayed in the events views. If you don’t want these events to show up everywhere (for example, you might not want to display them in month view if they have no fixed date), one way to do this would be to use categories and exclude certain categories from certain views (see this post for a snippet that you could use as a starting point).

We are limited in the amount of support that we can provide for customizations, but if you get stuck or have any questions, please let me know – I’ll be happy to try to point you in the right direction!

For your recurring events, I can’t really give you “best” option for how long to wait before deleting past recurring events and how far into the future to create them. This will really depend on for how long after/how far in advance you need to display them.

If you set the “Clean up recurring events after” option to 10, this means that past events will be deleted after 10 months. If you don’t need them to hang around on your calendar for that long, I would definitely recommend a lower number – 1 month might be a good option. Keep in mind that the more events you have on your site at once, the more likely performance is to be impacted.

I hope this helps! Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,

Jennifer

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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