Listing Events For One Year – Almost There

[Scott]

I’ve been struggling (I’m a newb) on how to have The Events Calendar print a list of all events within a specified year. I researched this need heavily online and I’m surprised that there’s limited info on the subject. The list is simple really. It just needs to be a linked title that sends the user to the actual event page.

My approach was to create a custom [shortcode] in functions.php so I could place the list on any WordPress page or post that I need.

The custom shortcode PHP is the following.

// Setting up custom function called yearList
add_shortcode(‘yearList’, ‘yearList’);
function yearList()
{

// Ensure the global $post variable is in scope
global $post;

// Retrieve all events desired year. Only eight printed out of 80.
$events = tribe_get_events( array(
‘eventDisplay’ => ‘custom’,
‘start_date’ => ‘2014-01-01 00:01’,
‘end_date’ => ‘2014-12-31 23:59’
) );

// Loop through the events: set up each one as
// the current post then use template tags to
// display the title and content
foreach ( $events as $post ) {
setup_postdata( $post );

// prints the title for each event.
echo ‘<br><br>’;
// WRONG WRONG – This is below is what’s throwing me.
echo ‘” title=”<?php the_title() ?>”>‘;
//the_title();
// echo tribe_get_start_date(); This shows the start date and time after the event title I slept this for now.

}
}

I have two questions.

• Why would the loop only show nine titles when I have over 80 stamped for 2014?
• How can make each line be a link to The Calendar Events actual event page? I’ve tried to employ this with no luck.

[Brian]

Hi,

Glad you are getting closer I can help out here.

For the loop only showing 9 titles try adding this to the tribe_get_events array:

'post_post_page' = > -1

To link a title you can try using WordPress’s get_permalink:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_permalink

Let me know if that helps.

Thanks

[Brian]

Since I haven’t heard back from you here, I’m going to go ahead and close out this thread. Feel free to start a new thread if you have further issues. Thanks! 🙂

[Author]

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