How to show events for only 1 month and 1 category?

[Kenny]

I’d like to embed the Events Calendar calendar view of events into a post and have it show only events that are in a certain category and that occur in August.

I saw in the FAQ that this can be achieved using filters, but I’m at a loss as to how to go about using them.

Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks!

[Jonah]

Hi Kenny,

You can only embed the calendar via PHP code, we don’t have any shortcodes. So, you’ll want to somehow get this code into your theme’s single.php file (for single posts) and limit it to only the specific posts you want via conditionals. The embeds you can use are the following:

include('wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/views/table.php');

…or…

include('wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/views/gridview.php');

Then, to filter out specific categories you’ll want to use the following in your theme’s functions.php file:

add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'exclude_events_category' );
function exclude_events_category( $query ) {
if ( is_single('your-single-post') ) {
$query->set( 'tax_query', array(
array(
'taxonomy' => TribeEvents::TAXONOMY,
'field' => 'slug',
'terms' => array('2012'),
'operator' => 'IN'
)
)
);
}
return $query;
}

Change ‘your-single-post’ to whatever it is and the terms parameter to whatever category you want to include or exclude.

I hope that helps!

– Jonah

[Kishore Hari]

Hi all,
I’m tagging onto this post rather than starting a new post since it’s almost the same question.
I also need to display only a particular month in grid view, and I didn’t see that specifically addressed (display only August) in the solution above.
My twist is that I need to display two months of grid view on the same page view.
Thanks,
Damian

[Jonah]

Hi Kishore,

To set the date range for the grid view, you can use the start_date/end_date variables in the pre_get_posts function like so:

add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'exclude_events_category' );
function exclude_events_category( $query ) {
$current_date = date('j M Y', strtotime('1 month ago'));
$end_date = date('j M Y', strtotime('1 month'));

if ( $query->query_vars['eventDisplay'] == 'upcoming' || $query->query_vars['eventDisplay'] == 'past' && $query->query_vars['post_type'] == TribeEvents::POSTTYPE && !is_tax(TribeEvents::TAXONOMY) && empty( $query->query_vars['suppress_filters'] ) ) {
$query->set('start_date', $current_date);
$query->set('end_date', $end_date);
}
return $query;
}


I hope that helps!

– Jonah

[Kishore Hari]

Thanks Jonah! I will try that soon.
Damian (using my client Kishore’s account)

[Rob]

Great to hear, Damian. Give it a go and let us know if you need anything else from us then.

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