'Next Event' shortcode

[showchinchillaz]

I’d like to use a shortcode to display a text link saying ‘Next event: ‘ or ‘Upcoming event’ or suchlike. It needs to be linear and without a calendar as the space is beside my logo in a header.

Is there a way to do this please?

Thanks!

[Cliff]

Hi Andrew. Thanks for your question.

These are our plugins’ widgets and shortcodes.

If the shortcode you’re wanting doesn’t exist there, you could create your own but this would be in the realm of personal customization.

However, I can point you to a function I think you might need to use for this: tribe_the_next_event_link()

Please let me know if you think I can be of further assistance.

[Harrison]

Hi Cliff,

I’ve had a look at the resources you’ve provided and I’m trying to fathom how to use the tribe_the_next_event_link()

I’ve figured out how to use this to create a shortcode but is there a way to incorporate this into a HTML link?

Thanks

Harrison

P.S. you can create a shortcode for this by adding the following after the closed function on line 54 of src/functions/template-tags/link.php:

add_shortcode('your_shortcode_name', 'tribe_the_next_event_link');

[Cliff]

This is the source code for that function: https://github.com/moderntribe/the-events-calendar/blob/4.1.1.1/src/functions/template-tags/link.php#L41

Which basically ends up running get_event_link(): https://github.com/moderntribe/the-events-calendar/blob/4.1.1.1/src/Tribe/Main.php#L4083

Which already outputs the a href HTML

I hope this clears things up for you for however you’re wanting to use these functions for your customization. Maybe you should just use get_event_link() directly. I can’t know for sure without writing the code for you.

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