Formatting new Organizer List plugin

[Andrea Olson]

First, thanks so much for creating a plugin for adding a shortcode to create a list of organizers, directory-style, to the options (here: http://tribe.uservoice.com/forums/195723-feature-ideas/suggestions/6240229-organizer-directory-list?tracking_code=16dfab85eb6b1366e78c207b20e13b7d). Makes things a ton easier!

However, I have no idea how to make my list come up alphabetically. Truthfully, I’d rather it come up sorted by REGION, but that is probably too complicated? Do you have a fix for the latter? Or, at the least, the former?

I am looking at editing this plugin file: venue-organizer-shortcode/venue-organizer-shortcode.php

The page where my directory current is: http://godiaperfree.com/go-diaper-free-certified-coach-directory/ – It’s kind of a mixed up list!

Please advise anything that can help. My goal is to have a list by region OR country, will settle for alphabetical, and I already have a map plugin working to help folks find an organizer by zip code/region here: http://godiaperfree.com/find-a-local-group/

And, lastly…if I can pay anyone to develop this for me, who would you recommend (if you can do so)? Btw, I would pay for an extension that allowed a custom directory to be made from an Organizer or Venue list, and I am probably not the only one. 🙂 There is little out there and I believe makes sense for most event listings to have such a directory. My two cents!

Thx! Andrea

[Geoff]

Hi Andrea, nice to see you again!

Good question, and an interesting one.

I do think that ordering the list would by Region would be quite a customization. We’d be happy to share a list of freelancers who might be able to help you out–if you’re interested, hit us up with an email to support [at] theeventscalendar.com and we’d be happy to send that along.

I was able to get the list to order alphabetically using this as the plugin. Give it a shot and let me know if this will work for you as well. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

class TEC_VenueOrganizer_List {
protected $atts = array();
protected $query;
protected $output = '';
public function __construct( $atts ) {
$this->atts = shortcode_atts( array(
'post_type' => self::get_type( 'VENUE_POST_TYPE' ),
'limit' => -1,
'ordered' => 'title',
'ascending' => 'ASC'
), $atts );
}

public function __toString() {
$this->query();
$this->format();
return $this->output;
}

protected function query() {
$args = array(
'post_type' => $this->atts['post_type'],
'posts_per_page' => $this->atts['limit'],
'orderby' => $this->atts['ordered'],
'order' => $this->atts['ascending']
);

$this->query = new WP_Query( apply_filters( __CLASS__ . '.args', $args, $this->atts ) );
}

protected function format() {
$opening_tag = '<ul class="tec list ' . $this->atts['post_type'] . '">';
$this->output = apply_filters( __CLASS__ . '.list.open', $opening_tag, $this->atts );

while ( $this->query->have_posts() ) {
$this->query->the_post();
$link = '<a href="' . get_the_permalink() . '">' . get_the_title() . '</a>';
$item = '<li class="tec list ' . $this->atts['post_type'] . '">' . $link . '</li>';
$this->output .= apply_filters( __CLASS__ . '.list.item', $item, $this->atts );
}

$this->output .= apply_filters( __CLASS__ . '.list.close', '</ul>', $this->atts );
wp_reset_postdata();
}

public static function get_type( $type_const ) {
if ( class_exists( 'Tribe__Events__Events' ) ) $class = 'Tribe__Events__Events';
elseif ( class_exists( 'TribeEvents' ) ) $class = 'TribeEvents';
else return false;

$class = new ReflectionClass( $class );
return $class->getConstant( $type_const );
}
}
function tec_do_venue_shortcode( $atts ) {
$type = TEC_VenueOrganizer_List::get_type( 'VENUE_POST_TYPE' );
if ( ! $type ) return '';

$atts['post_type'] = $type;
return new TEC_VenueOrganizer_List( $atts );
}

function tec_do_organizer_shortcode( $atts ) {
$type = TEC_VenueOrganizer_List::get_type( 'ORGANIZER_POST_TYPE' );
if ( ! $type ) return '';

$atts['post_type'] = $type;
return new TEC_VenueOrganizer_List( $atts );
}
add_shortcode( 'list_venues', 'tec_do_venue_shortcode' );
add_shortcode( 'list_organizers', 'tec_do_organizer_shortcode' );

[Andrea Olson]

This will resolve it for now! I will email you guys for a list of freelancers who can help with the rest, but for now, your code revision works to alphabetize my list, and I am grateful for that!! Thanks Geoff!

Andrea

[Geoff]

My pleasure, Andrea! I’m so glad this helped out for the time being. 🙂

I’ll go ahead and close this thread, but do please feel free to hit us up with a new thread if anything else pops up–we’d be happy to help.

Cheers!
Geoff

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