Looking to display the full current years events in Map view

[Matt]

I posted this topic in another thread that is now closed, so wanted to follow up on it.

Looking to display the full current years events in Map view (not just upcoming)

in your response to our wanting to display the full year of events by default (not just upcoming events) you mentioned the following:
As a starting point, we have a great article about customizing our template files here > https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/themers-guide/. And if you are familiar with the WP_Query class we have a little helper function called tribe_get_events() you can use to create custom code and fetch events.

I found a developer as you suggested however, this was their response to that request:
“I reviewed the custom implementation they suggested with the events calendar and maps, but using tribe_get_events() will not work full for us, it can return events for the whole year, but the function only returns the list of events data, and then we cannot use their templates to display those retrieved events the same way it does currently (i.e. displaying markers with map, event details etc).

Instead we need to create our own custom templates to display those events, then we need to integrate it with google maps along with markers to show the respective events, which ultimately takes a lot more time to customize and implement. Also we might not have search filters available then as it displays under map currently.”

May he be missing something on how to implement your suggestions to accomplish this? Building something from scratch seems excessive when all we need to do is display the current year’s events instead of just those coming after today’s date. Let me know your thoughts on how you would suggest the developer would proceed to accomplish this.

Thanks in advance,
Matt

[Geoff B.]

Good evening Matt and welcome back!

Thank you for reaching out to us.
I would love to help you with this topic.

Just to set expectations, the scope of our support is mostly to get our customers started on the right track and to help them in case of issues.

We unfortunately do not provide complete support for customization.

Your developer is right for the most part: you will need to create your own templates to achieve what you are looking for.

So in short, if you want a year view in the short term, building it from scratch is alas the only way to go for now.

The good news however is that a year view is in the works. Unfortunately, I cannot commit to a release date at this point. But stay tuned!

Perhaps you could have a few different developers form one of our recommended customizers provide you with quotations for that project?

I wish I had a better answer for you, but for now it’s the best one I have unfortunately.

Have a great day!

Geoff B.

[Matt]

Good news, after more research we found a solution to display events starting from any past date in a page via a custom filter and a query action which sets the date filter to the current date – 1 year, so it now displays all events in the page. Hopefully this will be helpful for others in the future trying to accomplish something similar.

Thanks,
Matt

[Geoff B.]

Good evening Matt,

Thank you for writing back and sharing your solution.
I am mostly glad you found a solution.

You are welcome back in our support forums any time 🙂

For now, I am going to close this thread.

Have a great week!

Geoff B.

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