Events as "post" for HomePage template

[Nicolo’ Orlandi]

Hello, I have understood how an event can be published also in the post-loop of a wordpress site. My question, so, is a bit different.

I don’t have the normal post-loop as Homepage in my site, but a Homepage template that contains various widget. Those widgets “recalls” to existing posts, basing for example on category. In this way, when I add an event, it is not shown in the widget in Homepage, because that widget looks for posts basing on the category, and it can’t find the event as it was a real post. So, when I add an event, I have also to make a new post with the same image and the same text, in this way it is shown in the widget in Homepage.

Is there a way to avoid to create a new post, and to make the widget show the event category in homepage (not sidebar), as it was a normal post, so with image and exerpt, at the same way it shows a post? I hope you can understand the question.

[Geoff B.]

Good evening Nicolo’ and welcome back!

Thank you for reaching out to us.
I would love to help you with this topic.

There are a few ways you could accomplish this.

However, I believe the simplest is to use a plugin that provides a widget that can handle normal posts AND custom post types (such as events) simultaneously. For example: https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-posts-widget/

Let me know if that helps.

Have a great day!

Geoff B.

[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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