Exclude events, venues, organizers from inline link search

[leonardchamber]

This is hard to explain but … you know how wordpress has the inline link editor as of 4.5?

When you go to add a link in the page or post editor, you start to type the page name and it automatically searches the pages for you, which is really handy except that we have a zillion events with names that are similar to a page we would like to link to. So, you get search results with nothing but “Library” -events- when you are looking for the “Library” page to link to.

This page has a good animation of the inline link editor that shows what I am talking about – http://www.wpbeginner.com/news/whats-new-in-wordpress-4-5/

I would rather just exclude TEC items from this search. It’s going to really confuse my users.

Thanks!

[Nico]

Hi there,

Thanks for getting in touch with us! Interesting question here 🙂

I’ve googled a bit and hopefully there’s a filter to modify this query! Try pasting the snippet below in your theme’s (or child theme’s) functions.php file:

/* Tribe remove post types from editor link builder */
function tribe_remove_post_types_from_link_builder( $query ) {

// bail if the events calendar is not active
if ( !class_exists( 'Tribe__Events__Main' ) ) return false;

$remove_post_types = array(
Tribe__Events__Main::POSTTYPE,
Tribe__Events__Main::VENUE_POST_TYPE,
Tribe__Events__Main::ORGANIZER_POST_TYPE
);

foreach( $remove_post_types as $post_type ) {

$key = array_search( $post_type, $query['post_type'] );

if( $key ) {
unset( $query['post_type'][$key] );
}
}

return $query;
}
add_filter( 'wp_link_query_args', 'tribe_remove_post_types_from_link_builder' );


Please let me know if this works for you,
Best,
Nico

[leonardchamber]

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• This reply was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by leonardchamber.

[Nico]

You are welcome, no problem with the delay 😉

It’s seems to be a formatting issue, try pasting the snippet in a plain text editor before doing so in the functions.php file. Sometimes this helps, but if it doesn’t then try to remove the spaces/tabs and add those again.

Also please note that you don’t need to add the PHP closing tag ?> to the end of the file, although I don’t think it causes this issue.

Please give this a new try and let me know,
Best,
Nico

[leonardchamber]

Funny, I thought I had pasted into Notepad prior to uploading, but there must have indeed been a formatting issue, because this time it worked fine. The multitudes of events no longer show up when trying to link something. Thank you!!

[Nico]

Wooot! Stocked to hear it works now 🙂

I’ll go ahead and close out this thread, but if you need help with anything else please don’t hesitate to create a new one and we will be happy to assist you.

Best,
Nico

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