Pointers to add custom fields within their own section?

[Anders]

Hi,

Let me see if I can explain what I’d like:

Just as you have special headings in the backend for
Event Time and Date
Event Location Details
Event Organizer Details and so on,

I would like to add a section called
Registration Details

It would ideally contain a text area field (hopefully even with a WYSIWYG editor) to enter special instructions for registration information etc.

(I know that I can add custom fields in the Additional Events Field, but that doesn’t quite cut it. It also doesn’t give me a text area field, only a text field. )

Maybe an image helps in explaining?
https://www.dropbox.com/s/69w9yfkkvrtmxem/more_custom_fields.png?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7yhe119h91mb0z3/Screen%20Shot%202015-02-11%20at%2011.03.49%20AM.png?dl=0

If you could point me in the right direction, I can probably dig around and follow any tutorials etc on my own, but at the moment I don’t know exactly what to search for, so any help, tips, plugin-tips etc would be appreciated.

Obviously this has to be an upgrade safe solution, so if any hacking is involved, it would have to be done in an upgrade safe manner.

[Geoff]

Hey there, Anders! Welcome back. 🙂

Good question and, yes, I think I’m following you here. In short, you’d like to add your own custom fields to the event post editor and ideally have them under their own heading. Is that correct?

If so, I often find that Advanced Custom Fields is the easiest way to create and manage custom fields. You could certainly do custom development work create those fields, but ACF does it so well and with an interface that it winds up being much easier.

Once you create new fields in ACF and assign them to the tribe_events post type, you can override any the calendar template to display them. Check out our Themer’s Guide for step-by-step details on template overrides.

Does this help answer your question? Please let me know.

Cheers!
Geoff

[Anders]

Thanks for the pointers. Very helpful indeed.

In the end I ended up just hi-jacking the Other section of the default build and use that for my extra information, by changing the name of that section.

[Anders]

Closing topic.

[Geoff]

Awesome–nice work and thanks for both following up and sharing the way you went about it. 🙂

Geoff

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