Posting events in loop on Genesis

[Bill]

at halfwaytoconcord.com, I have forgone the normal blog loop on front page in favor of a customized grids that show categories of posts. I’d like to include specific event categories but in the widget, when I go to select category(s) the event categories do not appear.

Additionally, I’d like to have event preview look more like blog post preview where featured or first image is shown instead of the stylized date.

It seems like it’s be easier if one could create a regular post that then could be selected for the event loop rather than events to loop.

Finally, I’ve noticed that if you don’t hold down the control key when selecting filters, the spinning ball twirls and then the menu pops up but disappears within a half second if you don’t hold the control key down.

[George]

Hey Bill,

Sorry you’ve run into some frustrations here. To be clear, we only provide very limited support for customizations – but with some general guidance I’m sure we can at least help you get a great head start on customizing your site to have things exactly as you’d like.

Before getting into the specifics of your post, one thing I can’t recommend enough is our Themer’s Guide. Check that out here → https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/themers-guide/ It’s chock-full of great information and examples about customizing and extending Events.

Onto some of your specific points:

I’d like to include specific event categories but in the widget, when I go to select category(s) the event categories do not appear.

1. When you mention how event categories aren’t showing up in “the widget”, can you specify what widget you’re talking about? Is it something from within Genesis, or do you mean the categories widget that comes with WordPress by default? Or something else altogether?

I’d like to have event preview look more like blog post preview where featured or first image is shown instead of the stylized date.

2. Something like this is where the Themer’s Guide should come in super-handy. If you can specify what event previews you’re referencing – in the blog loop you mentioned earlier? in the Month events view? – we might be able to offer some more specific advice here. In the meantime, if you get familiar with the Themer’s Guide and try out using WordPress’ own functions related to showing the post thumbnail, you might be able to put something together that’s pretty close to what you’re hoping for. You can learn more about WordPress’ post thumbnail functions here.

It seems like it’s be easier if one could create a regular post that then could be selected for the event loop rather than events to loop.

3. If you head to Events > Settings in your WordPress admin, do you find this option on the main Events Settings page?

If so, does checking that help make your custom looping any simpler? If not, something that might be helpful for you here is an unofficial plugin that extends Events Calendar – it’s not officially supported or anything, but is made and maintained by a Code Guru here at Tribe, Barry Hughes. The plugin is called Events Rocket and has some features that might help you, like the ability to embed events – you could, for example, make “normal” blog posts and embed your events into them, and then just deal with manipulating those “normal” blog posts instead of trying to loop events separately or something. You can check out this plugin for free on WordPress.org here.

Finally, I’ve noticed that if you don’t hold down the control key when selecting filters, the spinning ball twirls and then the menu pops up but disappears within a half second if you don’t hold the control key down.

4. Just to be clear, do you mean the filters on the Tribe events filter bar? If not, what do you mean? And either way, can you share a link to where you find this problem with the spinning ball?

I’ve addressed all your points one-by-one with numbers here just to help keep things organized. Let us know what you think on each numbered point and we’ll hopefully be able to help resolve some of these frustrations.

Thanks! 🙂
George

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[Bill]

Thank you George for your reply. My goal is to not have to make two duplicating posts one as event and one as post. As

1. I don’t use normal loop, but the Featured Posts widget in Genesis, I have been scrounging for a way to achieve this goal with same look and feel as normal post.

2. I will look into the theme guide soon.

3. I have tried checking the box, but then I am not using the loop on front page as blog, but as a news page by category. As well there are some events that are worthy of front page and repeating networking events e.g. that do not, so I need to be able to select by some category.

EVENTS ROCKET sounds like just what I need, and I will check it out. Thanks for the clue.

4. I’d be happy to set up an admin account for you so you can to create the issue I have when trying to apply filters to event list widget. Send me an email address I can assign for user Tribe-Support, and I will set that up, thank you.

[Bill]

Trying to get in touch with Barry on how to embed single event. Tried messaging at Stack as worldviewpr.

[Bill]

got it

[event_embed event=”slug”

works

[George]

Hey Bill,

Before getting into my “actual” response here, I just wanted to check to see if you intentionally set the status of this issue to “resolved”? It shows up for me as “resolved” in the support admin here but I didn’t set that, and want to make sure that it wasn’t set by accident or something. As for your issues:

1. Hm, if it’s a Genesis widget then I unfortunately don’t think it would have support for Events categories out-of-the-box. For help with the Genesis widget, it may be possible to add custom filtering and support for Events categories, but I’d recommend contacting Genesis support separately on that issue.

2. Right on, definitely check it out and give it a good read. Lots of great information there.

3. I understand your limitations and hope Events Rocket turns out to be useful. Thanks for trying that out!

4. An admin account may be necessary, but for now, is there any way you could screenshot the specific area you’re having trouble with in your admin? I’m just curious about what exactly you’re referencing when you mention having to “apply filters to the list widget”, because if you’re talking about a “multi-select” input element in the admin, then as far as I know, having to hold down the Control key is the correct behavior required for it to work. Let me know if you can post a screenshot or screenshots to Imgur or something and we’ll take a closer look.

Cheers! 🙂
George

 

[Bill]

The part of main snip is causing problems for feedpress

function events_rss2_namespace() {
echo ‘xmlns:ev=”http://purl.org/rss/2.0/modules/event/”‘.”rn”;

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>>>>
Our bots didn’t succeed to retrieve your feed for some time. This could prevent your FeedPress feed to be up to date.

[2015-01-23 00:09:41] xmlns:ev=”http://purl.org/rss/2.0/modules/event/”rn>
————^
Fatal Error 41: Specification mandate value for attribute rn
Line: 8
Column: 12
<<<<<

[George]

Hey Bill,

I’m not quite sure what your last reply is asking, but the function events_rss2_namespace() is not a function from anywhere in any Modern Tribe plugin.

For issues related to FeedPress or other plugins on your site, your best bet is to contact customer support for those specific products.

Since we’ve resolved some of your original questions here, I’m going to go ahead and close this ticket for now. If you have other issues that pop up and are directly because of The Events Calendar or Events PRO itself, don’t hesitate to come back and open up a new ticket.

Thanks,
George

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