Integration with Custom Content Type fields

[Dietcheese]

I am interested in purchasing your plugin and a few add-ons, however I have a question:

I want to use the plugin to display events at a book festival. Each event has a book author. I would like each event to be linked to the author, which is stored in WP as a separate custom post type using ACF. I would like to be able to display, and filter on, the author using the Filter Bar Plugin.

I realize that this is not possible by default (and that you can create custom fields within the plugin). However, I am wondering if the plugin will allow me to link to my custom post type programmatically, if I code the functionality using PHP. I’m also wondering how difficult this would be and if there are any examples you could post me to.

Thanks!

[Cliff]

Hi, Dietcheese.

Thanks for your interest in Filter Bar.

It easily integrates with Events Calendar PRO‘s Additional Fields, which isn’t a regular plain text custom field (it’s a serialized array in a single custom field). There also isn’t any built-in integration with ACF; we don’t have such a snippet available either.

However, we have a pretty great Refund Policy so you can buy one or many of our add-ons and thoroughly test them.

I hope this info helps. Let me know if you have any follow-up questions.

[Dietcheese]

Thanks Cliff.

I understand that there is no built in integration for ACF and that you do provided additional custom fields.

However, my question is technical:

Is it at all possible, using ACF, to get fields from a different custom post type, on to the filter bar?

Again, I realize this isn’t something you provide. I just want to know if, programmatically, it’s even possible.

(alternatively, if your calendar’s custom fields provide a way of linking to other content types, that would be acceptable. I didn’t see this in your documentation)

Thanks,
Chad

[Cliff]

Our PRO Additional Fields functionality looks like this: https://cl.ly/2W0w2p3k0m2F

There is a URL field to manually enter a link.

As far as adding something custom to the Filter Bar, I think looking into the tribe_events_filter_create_additional_field_filter filter is a good place to start. It’s in this file: /wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar-filterbar/src/Tribe/Additional_Fields/Manager.php

Please let me know if you have any follow-up questions on this topic.

[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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