Search and Display, plus settings. Outlook calendar

[Stephanie]

Hello,

I have a few questions.

1) How to I get the search to find current and past events by category in one page?
http://thatssmartdesigns.com/swfc/events/?tribe_paged=1&tribe_event_display=list&tribe-bar-search=webinars

2) The search does not seem to be working correctly. For example. I search for hydrology and no results, even though the term is used in a tag?

3) I have unique urls to use the categories:
http://thatssmartdesigns.com/swfc/events/category/webinars/list/?tribe_paged=1&tribe_event_display=past
How do I change the string to show all in current to past order?

4) Will the Previous and Next links disappear once I show ALL as requested above?

5) How can I add “add to Outlook Calendar” as an option to each event? That is our organizations default email client.

6) I continue to get this error
The page “Events” uses the “/events” slug: the Events Calendar plugin will show its calendar in place of the page.
Edit the page slug or edit Events settings.
(see attached screenshot).

Please let me know if you need any further info or access keys.
Thanks
Stephanie

• This topic was modified 9 years, 9 months ago by Stephanie. Reason: adding more information

[Nico]

Hi Stephanie,

Thanks for getting in touch with us! I’ll help you here.

1) How to I get the search to find current and past events by category in one page?

Per default ‘past events’ are always hidden and you have to use the ‘previous events’ link to get there. While you can alter event queries, I don’t think it’s a good idea to alter how this works! Take a look for example at this past reply from Barry about a similar request: https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/past-events-dont-show-up-in-wp-search-results/#dl_post-961888

2) The search does not seem to be working correctly. For example. I search for hydrology and no results, even though the term is used in a tag?

The search term is used as the ‘s’ (search) parameter of the standard WP_Query. This is the default WordPress search function and it has some limitations.

3) I have unique urls to use the categories:
http://thatssmartdesigns.com/swfc/events/category/webinars/list/?tribe_paged=1&tribe_event_display=past
How do I change the string to show all in current to past order?

I guess this is pretty similar to the first question, you can alter the event queries to show past events with present events if needed.

4) Will the Previous and Next links disappear once I show ALL as requested above?

It’s a matter of trying, but I guess it should work.

5) How can I add “add to Outlook Calendar” as an option to each event? That is our organizations default email client.

The iCal export button present in the single events page should work for Outlook. If you want I can send a code snippet to rename this button.

6) I continue to get this error: ‘The page “Events” uses the “/events” slug: the Events Calendar plugin will show its calendar in place of the page. Edit the page slug or edit Events settings.’

This shows because you have a page with the same slug as the calendar is using. To remove this please change the slug of this page or change the slug used to show the calendar. If everything is working as intended and this configuration is intentional then you shouldn’t worry about this message.

Please let me know if the above helps to have a better idea on this,
Best,
Nico

PS: please note we generally accept one issue per thread, as this thread is composed of small issues I’ll help you anyway but please keep this in mind for future exchanges 🙂

[Stephanie]

Hello!

Sorry for adding so many requests in one topic. (newbie here ;-)).

5) How can I add “add to Outlook Calendar” as an option to each event? That is our organizations default email client.

The iCal export button present in the single events page should work for Outlook. If you want I can send a code snippet to rename this button.

Yes please!

thank you!
Stephanie

[Nico]

Thanks for following up Stephanie! No problem 😉

To rename the iCal export button, paste the snippet below in your theme’s (or child theme’s) functions.php file:

// Tribe, remove default export links in single event
if ( class_exists('Tribe__Events__Main') ) {

remove_action( 'tribe_events_single_event_after_the_content', array( 'Tribe__Events__iCal', 'single_event_links' ) );

function custom_single_event_links() {

// don't show on password protected posts
if ( is_single() && post_password_required() ) {
return;
}
echo '

';
echo 'esc_gcal_url( tribe_get_gcal_link() ) . '" title="' . esc_attr__( 'Add to Google Calendar', 'the-events-calendar' ) . '">+ ' . esc_html__( 'Google Calendar', 'the-events-calendar' ) . '';
echo '+ Add to Outlook Calendar';
echo '

';
}

add_action( 'tribe_events_single_event_after_the_content', 'custom_single_event_links' );
}


Please let me know if the snippet works as expected,
Best,
Nico

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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