Hide Event or Make Private

[jpretorious]

I need to hide a private event and have tried the password protection option that WP offers. However, the event displays in the calendar as protected and it’s not very visually pleasing/aesthetic for the user. Then when you click on the vent the visual to login is messed up.

So, is it possible to create an event and hide from the events calendar views but enable people to click on a link to access it?

Thank You,
Justine

[Casey]

Justine,
Thanks for getting in touch! Unfortunately, it’s not currently possible to have a publicly accessible hidden event. However, you can set an event as ‘Private’ (instead of Protected) which will completely hide the event for users that are not logged in. If logged out users try to access the event, they will just get a 404 error.

The other option would be to create a new Event category (ex: Hidden Events) and then use CSS or PHP to hide all events in that Category.

I hope that helps to get you started in the right direction, but let me know if you have further questions. Thanks! 🙂

-Casey-

[jpretorious]

Casey,
It’s me again! Thank your for your input on this question. I went with password protecting the event.

Justine

[Casey]

Great! Thanks for confirming that this got you sorted. Since it looks like you’re all set, I’m going to mark this thread “Answered” and close it out.

By the way, if you have a minute or two, we would love it if you’d write a few words for us here: http://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/the-events-calendar?filter=5

Thanks in advance. 🙂

Cheers,
Casey

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