Dynamic Featured Events

[Ben]

I plan on using TEC for a community calendar, which the event producers will be able to embed via iframe on their sites as well.

In order for the event producers participate, they would like to have their events featured when it’s embedded on their site. I was planning on doing this by passing in the event producer ID, and adding an additional query that added their events above the calendar.

With the new “Featured Events” feature, it seems there might be a way to use that instead. Is there a way to adjust the query results to dynamically set certain events to “featured” and “sticky” before displaying, so the javascript and other aspects of the “Featured Events” will work as if the events were actually featured?

Thanks!

[George]

Hey Ben,

Thanks for reaching out.

There is unfortunately no out-of-the-box way to pull of what you describe with our “Featured Events” features. 🙁

You could only tweak these features to work as you describe by way of custom coding. You would have to write that custom code or hire a professional developer to do it for you. We have a list of great developers here → http://m.tri.be/18k1 (and have no affiliation with any of these folks—they’re simply some well-respected names in the community that we’ve compiled to share in situations like this one).

Please let me know if this helps and if there are any other issues or questions I can try to help with.

— George

[Ben]

Thanks George!

I ended up working out a custom query that pulled parts from wp_query to create my own results that just included the one’s I wanted. Then I used tribe_events_list_view_event_type and tribe_events_event_classes to set the template and class to ‘featured’.

[George]

Cool, thanks for sharing this update and your methods for achieving this.

Best of luck with your project!

George

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