Login Required for Event Details

[Shauna]

I’m wondering if there is a way to make a login required to view the details of the calendar events (specifically locations, and contact numbers, etc). We don’t want just anyone getting access to home addresses, so we want to require someone to register for approval in order to log in to view these details. I appriciate the help!

[Barry]

Hey Shauna, this is completely possible but it would require some knowledge of PHP and WordPress to make it happen.

In essence though you could override the Events templates and add a condition based on WordPress’s wp_get_current_user() function to reserve blocks of content for the eyes of logged in users only.

[Shauna]

Barry,

This is very helpful. I’m pretty sure I can do this. I’ll see what I can do, but if I get stuck I’ll try posting a specific question here! Thank you so much for the response!

[Shauna]

Does anyone know what plug-in files would need to be edited to do this?

[Barry]

Hey Shauna, reading our documentation and in particular the themer’s guide would make a great starting point here: the general principle here is that you should not make changes to code in The Events Calendar (or Events Calendar PRO) plugin files, otherwise those changes will be lost when next you update.

The basic idea is to create an events sub-directory within your theme and place any templates you wish to override in there. So, assuming you wanted to change the details that are visible when a single event is viewed you would very likely be looking at making a change to your custom events/single.php (and possibly the events/single-venue.php) template.

Hope that gets you started 🙂

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