How can I introduce information throught The Event Calendar's details section ?

[Marie-Charlotte]

Hi everyone,

I’ve look around between the forums and tutorials and I haven’t really find an answer to my issues.

I am an event organiser specialised on baby and children markets. When I write a new event my page looks very busy : first there is my post (where I have a two line introduction, then I describe the facilities and at last the admission fees), then there is the detail of the venue and its organiser (from the Event Calendar), after that you’ve the google map of the venue and finally you get to buy your ticket. For me and my customers that’s way too much to read. However, I need to display the facilities and admissions fees. My customers are mainly mothers, they need to know if they can easily change their babies, if they can bring their pushchairs, if there is a cash point etc… So my question is how can I introduce information on facilities and admissions through The Event Calendar’s details and organiser section ?

Thank you for your help

[Nico]

Howdy Marie-Charlotte,

Welcome to our support forums and thanks for reaching out to us!

Events Calendar PRO comes packed with additional fields, which can be very useful for this. If you are not planning to purchase PRO just for this then we can explore other ways of doing this with WordPress built-in custom fields or with Advanced Custom Fields plugin as well and a template override. The later options will require some coding on your side, I will guide you anyway!

Please let me know about it,
Best,
Nico

[Marie-Charlotte]

Hi Nico,

Thank you for you reply.

For now, I only have one venue that suit my use. I just want to advertise it in the most informative and simplest way possible. The Advanced Custom Fields plugging might be a good match for me. However, I’ve looked at it and its documentation but it doesn’t show the ‘final product’. They show us how to do things but not how they look like. So, I am not sure what I will need to create within this plugging to reduce my page content. I feel like it will make me create another field of information rather having them all in the same block.

[Nico]

Thanks for following up Marie!

I’m not sure I fully understand what you are looking for here. I thought you were trying to add new fields for facilities and admissions fees and have those displayed in the details section of the single event page.

If you do not want to create extra fields for that, then we should look at a different solution. Maybe adding these in the event excerpt and showing that in the details section? Or maybe adding a ‘details’ field just to be displayed there? Not sure what would work best for you…

Please let me know if I’m getting this right,
Best,
Nico

[Marie-Charlotte]

Hi Nico,

Sorry it took me a while to answer.

http://thestickyfingers.co.uk/ if you go on the Event page, I would like my post (about facilities) to actually be in the details/organiser sections, then I have the map and that’s it. I don’t want people to scroll down to much to get information.

Is it clearer for you ?

[Nico]

Thanks for following up! I think so → https://cloudup.com/cxAHllnyzFQ

Is that text part of the event content? If so then we will have to place it in a separate field, this is why I suggested using a custom fields solution before. Bur please confirm and then I’ll explain how to do this.

Thanks,
Nico

[Marie-Charlotte]

Yes this is what I try to do ! =D

Thank you for helping me.

[Nico]

Perfect, thanks for confirming!

Ok, let’s see if this works for you:

– Insert the ‘facilities copy’ in the event excerpt field: https://cloudup.com/cJuHs1JDUZQ
– Once that’s in place, you’ll need to add this snippet to your theme (or child theme) functions.php file:

/* Add excerpt to single event meta */
function tribe_add_excerpt_to_meta ( ){
echo get_the_excerpt();
}
add_action('tribe_events_single_event_meta_primary_section_end', 'tribe_add_excerpt_to_meta' );


That’s the basic, if you want you can add the same markup as other meta info or do things in a different fasion. For example in this case I’ll add some markup and hard-code the title:

https://gist.github.com/niconerd/528b1aca0e6a3fbd9c8b1912131f3f03

Please let me know if this works for you, and note that this content will be shown in the list view, which might be a limitation for you. I choose this approach as there’s no need to add any additional fields,
Best,
Nico

[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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