recurring event which occurs on all fridays EXCEPT the last in the month how?

[stmarksitaly]

Hi thanks for you help so far I have 2 more questions:
I am just wondering if there is an elegant way to put in an event which happens every Friday apart from the last Friday in the month which is a separate event? Is there a way of excluding variables as opposed to adding them? I went through the examples page on the custom setups you couldn’t quite figure out how to do this? I have a recurring event for the event which happens the last Friday of the month but am stuck at adding the event which happens on the other Fridays!! If you see what I mean?!?!?

Also is the dashboard is there a way of listing the events in start date at the top automatically not the end date how it is now?? My preference would be to have the events nearer to the date now than way off in the future?

Thanks as ever for you help and words of wisdom!

Happy New Year

Iz

[Brook]

Howdy stmarksitaly,

Unfortunately I do not think there is an elegant way to do this. You could setup 5 monthly recurring events for each Friday of the month, but sometimes the last Friday is the fifth, and sometimes it is the fourth Friday. On times when it is the fourth friday you would have a duplicate event. This is probably something you would have to manage a bit. You could go in and manually delete the duplicates.

If you would like to suggest this capability as a feature, please put it on our uservoice page. This allows others who are itnerested in the to easily voice their support with a vote. Thanks! Please let me know if that helps you.

– Brook

[stmarksitaly]

Hi Brook
Thanks for the reply and apologies in not replying soon – I did wonder if that was the case and will make the suggestion on the capability page.

Regarding the other point of being able to view most recent events in the dashboard admin area as opposed to one in the distant future, is there an easy way of defaulting to that? It would be great to be able to access all events and the one at the top is the one for today?

Thanks as ever for your support, Isobel

[Brook]

Howdy Isobel,

You are welcome for the response. I am very very sorry for this belated response. The forums glitched and did not inform me of your response.

This snippet adds an item to your Admin Menu called ‘Events: Upcoming’, when you click on this it will only show upcoming events sorted with the oldest events up top. The original menu item that allows you to edit past events is still present, for those situations where you need it. But this new page should do exactly what you want.

Will that work? Thanks for your patience! I am truly sorry it took so long to reply.

Edit: Fixed link.

– Brook

[stmarksitaly]

Hi Brook
No problem about the delay and thanks for your response – sorry to be a bit of a newbie, but where should I paste that code – I am guessing a child php file somewhere ??? If you could let me know which file to create and paste code into I shall give it a whirl.
Thanks again
Isobel

[Brook]

No problem! We are all learning something. If you already have a child theme setup, does it have a functions.php file? If so, at the very top there should be a line like this “<?php”, paste that snippet just beneath the <?php line.

If your theme does not have a functions.php file, then you will need to create one. The very first line should be “<?php” (minus the quotes), with no space or anything. Then on any line after that you can paste my snippet.

Did that work? Let me know if you any more questions. Cheers!

– Brook

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