Next "main event" on the landing page`

[actannapolis]

Hi–
I need to “feature” the next upcoming event in a specific category on my landing page, in addition to the calendar page. Is it possible to automate this?
–Richard

[Barry]

Hi Richard: would it be possible for you to use our list widget, but set it to show a single event from a specific category?

[actannapolis]

Thanks, Barry. I just tried that and it works, but what I’m looking for is the full detail of that next event in that single category to be the main feature on the home page, not just a side-bar entry. I’d like it to display just like that same event when viewed in detail on the events page. –Richard

[Barry]

OK, so there are a few ways to go here.

One would be to customize the output of the event list widget so that it includes the extra detail you are seeking (please see our Themer’s Guide for some essential background to this). If you are using the widget generally and don’t want it to change everywhere then you could also use appropriate conditions to pull in the extra detail only in certain situations, such as if it is being loaded on the frontpage (or whatever will meet your needs here).

Another could be to take an approach like building your own shortcode then pulling in the next event in a given category via a custom query – that’s possibly a shade more advanced, though.

I hope that gives you a few things to explore here, however we’d really need to leave it to you to hammer out the details of something like this.

Good luck 🙂

[actannapolis]

OK; thanks for the ideas. I was hoping for something simple but will give these thoughts a look.

–Richard

[Barry]

No problem 🙂

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