How to Display Monthly Events

[ken]

Hi there,

My client sells hospitality packages for sport and entertainment. For example on the football page:

http://www.simbasports.co.uk/events/category/football/

Arsenal FC (top of page) is a recurring event from 012/10/2014 – 01/09/2015.

How can I display this recurring event from April 2015 onwards and show and repeat it throughout May, June, July on this page. I would also not like to show “October 2014” as this has elapsed.

Am I better off, ignoring “recurring events” and just placing each event as a new event post (I thought it may be too time consuming – hence recurring events). Or do you think Event Calendar is unsuitable for what I am trying achieve?

Also, how can I remove “Previous Events” link as they have now elapsed events.

Really hope you can help me.

best regards

Ken

[Barry]

Hi Ken,

How can I display this recurring event from April 2015 onwards and show and repeat it throughout May, June, July on this page.

So the hospitality packages are ongoing events run for 11 months of the year, give or take, but you want to promote them under each month’s heading, like this:

APRIL 2015

Arsenal FC Official Hospitality Packages
02/10/2014 - 01/09/2015 ←[SAME DATE RANGE]

Other Similar Events
03/11/2014 - 02/10/2015

MAY 2015

Arsenal FC Official Hospitality Packages
02/10/2014 - 01/09/2015 ←[SAME DATE RANGE]

More Hospitality Offerings
03/10/2014 - 01/10/2015

...etc...

That is, the event start/end dates would remain the same – but it would just be listed multiple times. Is that an accurate summary of this specific problem?

We’re happy to help with your other questions (about removing the reference to October 2014 – there may even be an existing forum post and solution for this – and about removing the previous events link) but since we have a policy of sticking to one question per support topic I’d ask that you post fresh questions for those 🙂

Thanks!

[ken]

Hi Barry,

Thank you for your fast response!

Yes, right! The event is shown listed per month on the page. It’s just to show the event is still active as someone scrolls down.

[Barry]

OK – so the plugin can’t do that without the help a few customizations.

Exactly which approach might work best for you I’m not sure, but one possibility is to use the additional fields capabilities of Events Calendar PRO to specify alternative dates.

These alternative dates could be the “true” dates, if you like (so 02/10/2014 – 01/09/2015 in the case of Arsenal FC Official Hospitality Packages, as an example). With that in place you could:

• Turn off the setting to hide subsequent recurring events, if you have this enabled
• Set the event up as a recurring event that takes place during the month of April and recurs monthly for however many months you need it to (this will ensure there is an entry under each month heading, ie April 2015, May 2015, and so on)
• Make a customization so that the displayed event dates make use of your alternative, additional field-powered dates when available (so each entry continues to provide the true date range of 02/10/2014 – 01/09/2015, or whatever makes sense for the event in question)

In terms of know-how for making these changes, you would certainly need to be fairly comfortable with basic WordPress development. These plugin-specific resources would also be worth reviewing:

• Themer’s Guide
• Docs for tribe_events_event_schedule_details()

With that said, it sounds like you’re really trying to promote the events outside of a calendar-like context – in that you’re not really interested in listing the events ordered by when they actually take place – so it could be that trying to modify things in this way is “wrong” and perhaps cross posting to the main blog loop would be better.

At any rate, I hope that gives you a few ideas to explore 🙂

[Barry]

Hi!

It’s been a while so I’m going to go ahead and close this topic.

• Need help with anything else? Go right ahead and post a new topic, one of the team will be only too happy to help
• Still need help with this issue and need to re-open it? Again, please simply create a new topic and link to this one to provide the team with some context

Thanks!

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