Photo view on the main page

[ivanmihov]

I saw a lot of discussions about including the calendar view in the main page and all of them ended with the conclusion that this function is not included even in the PRO version which I bought and that the workaround requires a lot of code changes.
But still.. I want to have it and I plan to spend time working on this, but I’m sure that somebody already did it and I guess you guys do have any hints on this. So, in order not to start from the beginning can anybody share experience on a workaround solution?
Thank you.

[Rob]

Hi there ivanmihov. I appreciate your follow-up on this. We indeed do have quite a few people requesting how to do this; while we try to help them out as best we can in terms of pointing them in the right direction, ultimately this is a customization because its running counter to how the plugin is designed. The plugin is built with the goal of creating a dedicated /events page (or whatever slug you define) and including the calendar there.

That said, the docs should be enough to point you in the right direction. But tell me: are you looking to do this for photo view, or calendar view? I see you mention one in the title and the other in your description, and want to make sure I fully understand the issue.

[ivanmihov]

Hi Rob,
Thank you for your replay. I would like to include the photo view in the main page – it has very good outlook and I want to use it as upcoming event notification. I will appreciate if you give me the right direction. I’m going to work on this next week. Thanks!

[Barry]

Hi ivanmihov, so some points to consider/general ideas that might get you started on the right track:

* You can target the home page by setting up an appropriate theme template or by using suitable conditional statements in whichever existing template serves that purpose

* Event views, such as photo view, can be loaded via the tribe_get_view() function

* Probably in all cases – but especially with views such as week and photo view – you would need to pay careful attention to the stylesheets and scripts required to make them fully functional and these would also need to be available on the front page

* It’s worth considering the SEO implications if this is going to duplicate one of the existing views (for instance, if photo view is still accessible at example.com/events/photo as well as living on the home page) – strategies here could include use of canonical URL tags or intercepting and overriding Tribe-related URLs so as to change photo view URLs to home page URLs on-the-fly

I hope that gives you a few ideas – and look forward to seeing what you come up with 🙂

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