Event Calendar Pro – Auto posting Calendar Event in Blog On Day-of-Event

[dtforum]

We have been using Event Calendar Pro for a few weeks now and we have a few questions / issues that we are posting in different support requests here.

Auto posting Calendar Events on MAIN Blog on Day of Event
We have found the switch where all the calendar events are posted on the Main blog stream WHEN they created in the calendar. This really isn’t what we want. We would like all events on a day to be in the calendar WHEN we enter them but auto post over the the main blog on a specific day. For example, we would like to enter all events for March 2015 in the Calendar but on Sunday 8th March at 9:00 am to have the events for Sunday 8th March to auto post in the calendar. Right now we having to copy the event details and create a second post on the main blog page.

Thanks
DT Forum

PS The Forum link below seems to remove the dashes from our URL so the URL name we have selected is incorrect since the dashes are not included.

[George]

Hi DT Forum,

First of all, I cannot apologize enough for the insane delay in response time here! There are a handful of support threads that for one reason or another seem to have totally fallen through the cracks of our support workflows – I messed up hugely here, and even though I’ve gone through looking for old issues to ensure threads don’t get ignored like this one did, it somehow missed my radar and has been sitting here unaddressed for far, far too long.

What’s even worse news than how long this support thread has been sitting here is the fact that the functionality you’re looking for is quite tricky to pull off – there are some solutions that come to mind, like WordPress’ built-in post scheduling features, but these would affect both the calendar views and the Main Blog loop view together – separating the behavior is the tricky part.

Where do you currently stand on this issue? Have you been able to find a solution by now? Also, how comfortable are you editing code? An idea crossed my mind where you could add a meta field that you add a “Main Blog Loop Publish” date to, and then the event publishes normally in the calendar but won’t get included in pre_get_posts() unless it’s the date in that meta field – this itself is quite tricky and I don’t know if it would work, but it’s just an idea.

I’m so sorry for the delay here!

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