map problems, date-less events?

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Hello,
I love Events Calender PRO. I’m hoping you can help with some questions that I have not been able to find the answers to;

1) I have the map feature working OK, however, since I added new events it only shows the single event on load with MAP as the ‘view as’
2) In ‘month’ and ‘week’ view if there is an event that is recurring then on the sidebar widget “UPCOMING EVENTS” those events show up for each day. This is despite, “Show only the first upcoming instance of recurring events” being checked. Is there a way to ensure that the recurring events do not all show up?
3) On the side bar I have categories, however this is only related to blog post categories. Is there a way to get this to pull from EVENT categories (either by combining or just event categories themselves?)
4) Is there a way to make an entry that is without a date? For example I would like to also add businesses etc related to the events and have them appear on the map. Then people could clikc on a category of ‘restaurants’ and see restaurants.

Thanks in advance!
Joe

[Andras]

Hi Joe,

Thanks for reaching out to us.

At the moment we are experiencing high traffic in our forums. Our response time might be a bit longer than usual, our apologies for this.

One of our support members will help you out as soon as possible.

Thank you for your patience!

Cheers,
Andras

[Andras]

Hi Joe,

Thanks for hanging in there. Let me try to help you with your questions.

1) I have the map feature working OK, however, since I added new events it only shows the single event on load with MAP as the ‘view as’

Could you explain this in a bit more detail please? What are your trying to achieve? What actions are you taking? What do you see instead? Please give me as many details as possible.

2) In ‘month’ and ‘week’ view if there is an event that is recurring then on the sidebar widget “UPCOMING EVENTS” those events show up for each day. This is despite, “Show only the first upcoming instance of recurring events” being checked. Is there a way to ensure that the recurring events do not all show up?

I tested this with the twentyfifteen theme and it worked fine for me. When I ticked the “Recurring event instances” box to show only the first, then it hides the recurrences.

Please switch to a  default theme like twentyseventeen and check.

If that doesn’t help it would be great if you could go through our conflict testing guide. Let me know what you find.

3) On the side bar I have categories, however this is only related to blog post categories. Is there a way to get this to pull from EVENT categories (either by combining or just event categories themselves?)

This is not possible out of the box. It would require some custom development. A colleague of mine recommended a solution in this thread. Please check it out and let me know if that helps you get started.

4) Is there a way to make an entry that is without a date? For example I would like to also add businesses etc related to the events and have them appear on the map. Then people could clikc on a category of ‘restaurants’ and see restaurants.

No, unfortunately that is not an option.

What you possibly could do is add those with a date (sometime in the not to far future) and hide the dates with a snippet or with css for these.

Cheers,
Andras

[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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