Plugin Conflict that works – But, am I playing with fire?

[Glenn]

Hello,

I have an issue with long running events hogging the home page which I set up as photo view. (If you are having the same issue up-vote my suggestion: https://tribe.uservoice.com/forums/195723-feature-ideas/suggestions/8077770-scroll-posts-for-a-specific-category-in-a-single-s

In the interim I have added a plugin called “Upcoming Events Lists” which allows me to put some events in the widget area. Along with the snippet from here https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/exclude-category-from-site-calendar/#post-822241 to exclude a category I called “LongRun”.

All of this mishmash seems to give me what I am after with the added benefit of plugin conflict. Both the new plugin and Events Calendar use /event/ What happens now is as long as I name them exactly the same so the permalink is the same when you click on the event link in the widget it takes you to the entry from Events Calendar.

Is this likely to come and bite me in the bum?

Regards,

Glenn.

[Brian]

Hi Glenn,

Thanks for using our plugins.

It is hard to say what might happen when running two plugins that do similar things and share a url. Although it appears to be working now there could be conflicts that come up.

Why do you need this other plugin to put events in the widget area?

Why would our Event List Widget not work?

Cheers

[Glenn]

Brian,

Thanks for the reply!

When I read you had a widget I did a face-palm! But I have tried it (now) and to be honest it isn’t as nice. The other one uses the featured image. If yours could do the image then I’d jump on it as I’d much rather not run lots of plugins. Also the filter thing seems a little odd – I tried filtering on LongRun but it seems to show others. If it works the other way around then it is a PITA as you would need to select all of them (one at a time it seems) and if a new one comes along then remember to update the list.

Any other magic hidden in the script somewhere that would work for me? 😉

Regards.

Glenn.

[Brian]

Sorry that is all I have for you in our plugins.

You could try the Event Rocket Plugin an unofficial plugin maintained by some of our developers that has shortcodes in it:

Event Rocket

Maybe one of those displays the events more how you would like it.

Cheers

[Glenn]

Thanks. I didn’t know Event Rocket had those shortcodes. I will investigate.

Glenn.

[Brian]

Your Welcome.

Since this is marked resolved I am going to close this ticket, but if you need anything else related to this topic or another please post a new topic on the forum and we can help you out.

Thanks

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