How can I pull featured pics from events?

[aj]

Howdy!

I’m using an Elegant Theme’s theme to build a site that is relying on Ecents Calendar Pro to do the heavy lifting. There’s a little widget on the front page that displays thumbnail images (that expand lightbox-style when clicked) of featured images from selected categories. I’d really like to be able to pull the featured images from my events for this section.

Warning and disclaimer: I’m a PHP noob. I know just enough to break the heck out of things I’m tinkering with, so I’d really prefer a copy/paste solution. That said, I’m willing to work through things if that’s what it takes. (After all, learnin’ is good, right? 😉 )

Here’s the bit of code that I *think* I need to replace:
$args=array(
'showposts' => (int) get_option('chameleon_posts_media'),
'category__not_in' => (array) get_option('chameleon_exlcats_media')

But again, I’m not really certain about this. Thanks for any help you can give me with this!

[Jonah]

Hi aj,

Can you paste the full code that the widget uses so I can take a look? You’re going to need to modify it’s query completely to include the events post type which is totally separate from other posts/categories.

Please post the code to http://snippi.com/

Thanks,
Jonah

[aj]

Thanks for your response, Jonah! The code is here: http://snippi.com/s/bf8nkcj

[Jonah]

Hey aj,

Try add this argument below the category__not_in like so:

'showposts' => (int) get_option('chameleon_posts_media'),
'category__not_in' => (array) get_option('chameleon_exlcats_media'),
'post_type' => 'tribe_events'

Does that work?

– Jonah

[Jonah]

Ooop, actually make sure it reads like so to still include your other posts:

'showposts' => (int) get_option('chameleon_posts_media'),
'category__not_in' => (array) get_option('chameleon_exlcats_media'),
'post_type' => array('tribe_events','post')


[aj]

Hi Jonah,

Thanks for the response! That line did the trick!

If we can, I’d like to take this two steps further (and then be done! forever!):
– Step 1: I’d like to only display events from a particular category (probably something clever like “front-page-events”). Can we modify the above code to just grab that category?
– Step 2: Right now that code produces a slider with thumbnails. When you click a thumbnail, you see a “lightbox” version of the image and a little description under the image. I’d like to make that description a link to the event page. Right now, the description gets printed out this way:

How can I grab the URL for the event page so that I can do something like:
<a href="">

[aj]

Bah! I got my code striped. I reposted it here: http://snippi.com/s/ifse2dn

Thanks again (a lot!) for your help!

[Jonah]

Hey aj,

That’s getting a little more involved than what we can help you with. You may need to hire someone to help you but here are some more tips. To pull events from specific categories, you need to add the following arguments:

'tax_query'=> array(
array(
'taxonomy' => 'tribe_events_cat',
'field' => 'slug',
'terms' => 'conferences'
)
)

Where ‘conferences’ is the name of your category or an array of categories like with the post_type arg. This is likely going to conflict with pulling in your regular posts into the slider though. You’ll probably have to add your regular post categories to the terms parameter to include them as well. For more info on the arguments you can pass into the query here, take a look at the WP_Query doco: https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query

For the link, you’ll probably want to use tribe_get_event_link() – take a look at our doco on that: https://theeventscalendar.com/support/documentation/the-events-calendar-template-tags-link-functions/#functiontribe_get_event_link

I hope that helps!

– Jonah

[aj]

Awesome. Thanks for your help, Jonah!

[Jonah]

You’re welcome aj, are you all set here then? Let us know if there’s anything else you need.

– Jonah

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