Pro, Eventbrite, facebook and social media

[Randall Lee]

Hello,

I found you guys from Eventbrite. I downloaded your free version to get started but I’m interested in up grading to the pro, I need the calendar to sync with our magazine blog, as well as Eventbrite and Facebook so how do I make all this happen? Our events for now are free so currently we are not expecting to sell events.

1) Concern, I notice when I export an event into ical calendar it brings the short codes in too, in fact the short codes are display in the notes section, how do I prevent this?

2) I was very surprise not to see any social media buttons to share calendar events.

[Geoff]

Hi Randall–thanks for getting in touch!

Good questions. Let’s see if we can tackle them one at time here. 🙂

I need the calendar to sync with our magazine blog, as well as Eventbrite and Facebook so how do I make all this happen?

Currently, there is no way to have events sync with another website. We’re looking into automated syncs for other calendars with The Events Calendar via iCal, but that’s not quite what you’re looking for either.

We do have Eventbrite Tickets, which will certainly allow events to be imported into your WordPress site from Eventbrite and vice versa. It also allows your visitors to register for your events from the website, which is a nice plus.

Same thing with Facebook: we have a Facebook Events add-on that will allow you to import events from Facebook into WordPress, but with an automated schedule.

Concern, I notice when I export an event into ical calendar it brings the short codes in too, in fact the short codes are display in the notes section, how do I prevent this?

I do indeed see what you mean here. Shortcodes are picked up in WordPress content by default, but I wonder if applying the strip_shortcodes() function would do the trick. I have tested this, but that might look something like this in your theme’s functions.php file:

function remove_shortcode_from_index( $content ) {
 if ( tribe_is_event() && is_single() ) {
 $content = strip_shortcodes( $content );
 }

 return $content;

}

add_filter( 'the_content', 'remove_shortcode_from_index' );

You may need to tweak that a bit, but hopefully it gets things back in place.

I was very surprise not to see any social media buttons to share calendar events.

It’s true that the calendar does not provide social sharing options, but there are plenty of other plugins that will add that functionality, such as JetPack’s social sharing module.

Does this help answer your questions? Please let me know. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

[Geoff]

Hi Randall, thanks for confirming the answer here! I’m glad this helps.

I’ll go ahead and close this thread but please feel free to hit us back up if any other questions pop up and we’d be happy to help. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

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