Displaying next events

[Karoliina Valontaival]

Hi,

Please link me to relevant threads or articles, please! i wasn’t sure how to look for what I need.

I have Events calendar pro. and i have a weekly dance class as a recurring event, and weekend workshops as one-off events. on the front page of my site, in one section i would like to be able to display the next weekly class, and in another section I’d like to have “upcoming events” and show three upcoming workshops from the calendar. similarly to the website below, except not only text, also the “cover image” of the event. I’m using the Divi theme – so there’s all the blurbs and other modules that i can use… I just don’t know how to hook the calendar up with it. or will it require custom work of some kind? (custom work then makes things a bit difficult, with updating the plugin…)

https://www.northpointe.org

Thank you!!

[Neal]

Hey Karoliina,

Thanks for reaching out so we can help :).

There’s a couple of things I think you could use to get your events to show. You should be able to insert shortcodes into your sections.

1. https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/pro-widget-shortcodes
2. https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/embedding-calendar-views-tribe_events-shortcode/ (Note: only one of these is allowed per page)

If some of those widgets are not exactly what you’re looking for, and you’re feeling up to coding a bit, you can try extending the plugins by following this guide: https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/themers-guide/. That will allow you to easily update our plugins without overwriting your modifications 🙂

Let me know if that works out for you Karoliina, and if you have any other questions.

Cheers,
Neal

[Karoliina Valontaival]

Hi Neal,

Thanks for responding!

Was there a page where I could get a feel for these widgets in practice? If
I could get one of the widgets to display, say, the next 3 events in a
particular category, then that would Be good! But i’m intendening on
building a one-page type of site, fullwidth, with no side Bar, so i’d
prefer the widget to work with that, i.e. not Be a box on the side. To
Display the events horizontally, side-by-side (like in that sample website)
rather than as a vertical list, which I saw somewhere on your site. Is it
possible to choose the “orientation” or would I have to get someone to do
some code tweaking (which is not my forte)?

Related to this is a question about event categories. Is it possible to
create main categories and sub-categories? (Or are categories
“non-hierarchical”?) And for instance can I choose all events in one main
category (or one sub-category) to Be displayed in the widget? If so, how?

On the main event/calendar page, I know there’s several different viewing
“modes”. Is it possible to filter which category of events to display? Like
through a drop-down list/menu etc?

And finally. About event tickets plus which i’m considering buying. The
tickets are sold on the individual event page, right? What about the
woocommerce shop page. Will that become redundant? Or Will the tickets also
end up there as products? I’m thinking it would Be very customer-friendly
to have one page with all events listed, and a possibility to add tickets
to the cart for multiple events, without having to go through the calendar
every time. Reducing clicks would Be good.

I will have a bilingual page (using wpml). Wpml is apparently not fully
supported, but apparently Its possible to use it anyway. But what exactly
is the issue with event tickets plus and wpml? Do they not work together at
all, is it that tickets cant Be bought? Is it that Its only in one language
and can’t be translated? Would be good to know so I can assess whether to
give it a shot or not.

Thank you!

Karoliina

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[Neal]

Hey Karoliina,

Sure, you can see some of the example widgets here: http://wpshindig.com/event-widgets/. They are images, but they should give you a good example as to how they look :). By default those widgets should take up the full-width, so if you’re going for a full-width page, they should expand to take up as much space as they can. I believe a list by default will be vertical only, so you may have to put some CSS in to get them to show horizontally.

Yes! Categories are hierarchical. You can specify a category attribute like so:

[tribe_events view="list" category="barbecue"]

See https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/embedding-calendar-views-tribe_events-shortcode/#common and https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/pro-widget-shortcodes/#mini-cal-shortcode for more info.

There is definitely a way to filter by category (and it’s already integrated for you). If you go to http://wpshindig.com/events/. You’ll see a Show Filters button. Click on that and you’ll be able to sort by categories 🙂

Good thinking on reducing clicks, and yes the tickets are sold on the event page. By default, the WooCommerce event tickets are not shown on your WooCommerce shop page. However, you can enable it by following this guide: https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/selling-tickets-from-the-woocommerce-products-page/. There are also some extensions related to WooCommerce that you may be interested in as well: https://theeventscalendar.com/?s=woocommerce&submit=&post_type%5B%5D=tribe-extensions.

Yes, WPML is not supported for Events Tickets Plus. It appears that they will become independent tickets when you try to translate them. Here’s a post with more details: https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/wpml-does-not-work-with-events-tickets-plus/

Hope that helps!
Neal

[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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