Referencing the Events Page in WordPress conditional

[James]

I am building a new site and have created contextual sidebar navigation. I just write little snippets — mostly using the conditional is_page ( ) — to get the navigation to appear on the correct pages.

For some reason, though, I can’t get the sidebar to display on the events page. Using the slug (‘events’) didn’t work, either.

[Barry]

With reference to the Themer’s Guide would it be workable for you to call a specific sidebar from your custom ecp-page-template.php (and/or ecp-single-template.php) if you wanted a unique sidebar for event related pages?

A different approach Timothy (Wood – one of the devs) suggested, depending on how much control you need and what the context is, would be to use methods like these:


if (get_post_type($post->ID) == TribeEvents::POSTTYPE) {
/* do something... */
}

// Or for venue pages, for instance:
if (tribe_is_venue($post->ID)) {
/* do something... */
}


(Those haven’t been tested by the way, they are just rough sketches of how you might approach this.)

I hope that helps you out a little, but please don’t hesitate to shout back if you need me to clarify anything 🙂

[James]

Thanks for the response.

I am using a plugin called Widget Logic (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget-logic/). It allows me to have only a single template and just drag a bunch of widgets into the sidebar on the widgets page, then by entering a simple conditional (e.g. “is_page(array(‘slug’,id#))” wherein you can enter EITHER the page’s title from the permalink or its ID number.

I have a custom navigation set up for the News & Events section of the site (http://staging.m6d.com), but I don’t know what to enter for the events page. When I tried using “events,” it didn’t work. I also tried “events/month” and “month”.

I am not an advanced user. I am a designer who’s found himself developing sites, and this client really wanted a visual calendar. I like your solution, but it’s important to me that it not feel like they’ve left the News & Events “section” of the site.

Thanks!

[Barry]

OK – so as before there are a few template tags that could be useful here depending on how much control you need (such as tribe_is_events() and tribe_is_month() – a full list is available in the docs) but if you want a sort of catch-all that works on all Events Calendar pages then I don’t think anything like this is built-in.

If that is what you want however you could try adding this function to your theme’s functions.php file:

http://pastebin.com/9gSqT91m

Then use it within your Widget Logic conditionals:

is_events_page()

Does that work for you?

[James]

I used the pastebin code, and it worked like a charm! (http://staging.m6d.com/events)
Now it feels like a part of the News & Events section. Thank you!

[Barry]

Excellent, glad that worked for you 🙂

[Barry]

Quick update, a cleaner version of the is_events_page() function can be found here.

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