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Hi,
I would like to put the event calendar on the homepage.
I’ve looked through the documentation on tags and don’t understand it unfortunately.
Is there a simple way to achieve putting EC on the homepage?
Thanks for your help.Hey Tony. Thanks for the note here. As it stands, template tags (as detailed on the documentation page you checked out, https://theeventscalendar.com/support/documentation ) are the only way to display event details on the homepage.
Which aspect of the documentation are you unclear on? We can help elaborate if you give us a heads up. You also may want to check out the themer’s guide that we just published (https://theeventscalendar.com/themers-guide-to-the-events-calendar/) which may be of some value.
Let us know what you’re stuck on and we’ll do what we can to assist.
Rob, thanks for the reply.
I don’t know what to do with the template tags or which one to use to get the calendar/list view to show up.
On the documentation page there is just a list with no instructions on how to use them.
Sorry, I am a beginner so never used template tags before.Hi Tony,
The easiest way to do this would be to include the gridview in your theme’s template files. Try editing your theme’s page.php file and placing this next to where the_content() is called:
if(is_front_page()) {
include('wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/views/gridview.php');
}
In order for this to work you do need to have an actual Home page created as a page and set as the Front Page in Settings > Reading.I hope that helps, but let us know if you need anything else.
– Jonah
Jonah
Thanks for the help.
I have put it in the page.php file and it is appearing on the homepage now.
However, it is now goes by default to the calendar (not list view) and when you click on the “event list” or “calendar” buttons at the top, these buttons redirect to ‘myurl.com/events/upcoming’ and ‘myurl/events/month’.
Is there a way to get the “event list” view (upcoming events) to be the default view and for the two buttons not to redirect to these subpages when clicked?
Many thanks.Hi Tony,
The only way I can think of to get the events list on the home page is to setup a custom query pulling in your upcoming events, and styling everything to look like the other events list. There are numerous examples of custom queries in the forums if you search around a bit and we have examples in the documentation as well: https://theeventscalendar.com/support/documentation/
I hope that helps,
JonahCan you tell me which template tags I need to use in order to display the events list view with a button to display the calendar view.
Also, can you tell me how to use these tags. I don’t see any examples or explanation anywhere and nothing seems to come up in the search.
Hey Tony,
There’s no specific template tag for displaying the same list you see when going to the auto generated events list. You’ll need to use the tribe_get_events() function (https://theeventscalendar.com/support/documentation/the-events-calendar-template-tags-general-functions/#functiontribe_get_events) to put together a custom query and then style the query results to get them looking the way you want. There are a few examples in the documentation to give you an idea of how to use this function.
I hope that helps!
– Jonah
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