Display list widget with summary of each day

[mickcreates]

Hi Guys,
I just recently purchased this plugin and everything seems great, however I’m surprised something like this isn’t in the plugin already.
Allow me to explain.
For the listing widget it currently breaks out all events into separate entries which makes it difficult to understand if you have multiple events in one day. What I’m trying to achieve here is listing all the events under a single day.
Here is an image example of how I’d like to display the info:

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As you can see for example Friday has 3 events, using the listing widget in its current form breaks these events out in to 3 separate entries making it difficult for users to follow.
I’ve isolated the list-widget.php under \wp-content\plugins\the-events-calendar\views\widgets but so far I’ve had no luck displaying the events by day.
Is this even possible with the plugin?

[Barry]

Hi!

If you can picture it, then it’s probably achievable 🙂

That said, it’s very much the kind of customization we’d need to leave in your hands – but if there is a specific stumbling block you are hitting we’d be happy to point you in the right direction if we can.

Please also consider posting this as a feature request. While I don’t believe I’ve seen quite this request previously you could certainly be correct that others would be interested and creating a feature request allows them to comment further and upvote the idea to show their support.

A few ideas to get you started:

• You can modify the query used by the list widget via the tribe_events_list_widget_query_args filter hook
• If you’re always interested in showing just the upcoming week then you might wish to change a number of parameters to ensure you get the correct set of events (otherwise, it defaults to just showing the next x upcoming events which may or may not cover the week ahead)
• It may not matter in your particular scenario, but it could be worth considering how you want to handle multiday events (ie an event starting Monday but not ending until Wednesday)

Do also check out our Themer’s Guide and Technical Docs.

Good luck 🙂

 

[Barry]

Hi! It’s been a while so I’m going to go ahead and close this thread. If we can help with anything else, though, please don’t hesitate to create new threads as needed. Thanks!

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