Display a featured event in a front page feature box

[Carlos]

hey everyone. Trying to have an event assigned to the event category “feature” appear in the Thesis theme Feature box. Previously (before using ECP) any featured post would appear using the following code.

function featurecontent() { ?>

have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); $do_not_duplicate = $post->ID;?>

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<?php
}

So the question is to get event category “feature” to appear, what do I use instead of (‘category_name=featured&showposts=2’)?

Any ideas?
Thanks in advance all.
C

[Rob]

Thanks for sharing, Carlos. We should be able to help at least point you in the right direction on this. Let me get our developer Jonah to chime in with his thoughts.

[Jonah]

Hi Carlos,

Have you tried modifying the query using tribe_get_events() instead? That might be what you’ll need to do. You can see an example of the query with arguments in our doco: https://theeventscalendar.com/support/documentation/the-events-calendar-template-tags-general-functions/#functiontribe_get_events

You can use any of the standard WP_Query arguments including category_name.

[Laura]

Hi Carlos, I just recently had to do this myself. It took me quite awhile to figure it out but I finally got it.. Just use this to start your loop:

$featured_query = new WP_Query(‘post_type=tribe_events&tribe_events_cat=featured&showposts=1&eventDisplay=upcoming’);
if ($featured_query->have_posts()) while ($featured_query->have_posts()) : $featured_query->the_post();?>

[Rob]

Thanks Laura (and Jonah)! Carlos, does that get you where you need to be?

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