Private Events in iCal Feed

[Felix Hirschfeld]

Hey there 🙂

My client uses TEC for events and internal planning, it’s a club. So they set internal events as private (so they are not accessible for visitors), but I need to include them in the iCal feed… is this possible?

peace,
Felix

[Andras]

Hi Felix,

Thanks for using our plugins and welcome to the forums!

That is not possible out of the box. I will need to check around a bit if that could be done with a snippet or something. Please give me a day or 2 and I’ll get back to you. Thanks for hanging in there.

Cheers,
Andras

[Andras]

Hallo Felix,

There is a very hacky was of doing this. You will need to make a small change in one of the core files, which also means that the modification will be lost when you update the plugin.

Here is what you need to do:

Open this file for editing:

wp-content\plugins\the-events-calendar\src\Tribe\iCal.php

Line 255 looks like this:

$query = new WP_Query( array_merge( $wp_query->query, array( 'posts_per_page' => $count ) ) );

Replace it with this:

$query = new WP_Query( array_merge( $wp_query->query, array( 'posts_per_page' => $count, 'post_status' => array( 'publish', 'private' ) ) ) );

Check if that does the trick.

Cheers,
Andras

[Felix Hirschfeld]

Hi András,

thank you very much. But I won’t use this cause it’s not update save. We have a category “private” and I redirect these events in the frontend so no one can access them.

Is there a way to exclude a category from the feed?

[Andras]

Hallo Felix,

I was digging around a bit and there might be a way to make it “stable”.

In this article I found this snippet:

add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'custom_teardown_tribe_order_filter', 60 );
function custom_teardown_tribe_order_filter() {
if ( is_feed() ) remove_filter( 'posts_orderby', array( 'Tribe__Events__Query', 'posts_orderby' ), 10, 2 );
}

Obviously the above does something totally different, but based on that you can try this:

add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'add_private_events_to_rss', 60 );
function add_private_events_to_rss() {
if ( is_feed() ) add_filter( 'post_status', array( 'publish', 'private' ), 10, 2 );
}

I haven’t tested this but logically makes sense. 🙂

Would this help?

Andras

[Felix Hirschfeld]

Wow you’re awesome dude! That works!

[Andras]

Whoa, stoked to hear that actually worked. 🙂 Awesome to hear.

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 create a new ticket and we’ll be happy to help.

Cheers dude,
Andras

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