Searching just the calendar

[David]

I tried a forum search but suprisingly nothing came up, I thought this would be a popular feature.

Is it possible to display a search field on the events page (and possibly the calendar widget) that will search only the calendar?

Failing that, is it possible to search the whole site INCLUDING the events?

[Jonah]

Hi David,

We don’t have an events search widget/field but you can modify the search query in WordPress to include your events with this snippet: https://gist.github.com/2007736

I hope that helps but let me know if you need anything else.

Cheers,
Jonah

[David]

Thanks Jonah

I found that by default the search facility was searching pages and events.

To try to limit my search to events I use this as my search form

<form role="search" method="get" id="searchform" action="”>

Search for:

The hidden field will only search the events, however the results bring back all instances of recurring events. For example, I have an event set to recoccur weekly, so the search results bring back 52 instances of the same thing. Do you know whether it is possible to bring back only the upcoming version?

[David]

Hmm, it didn’t paste my search code correctly so here it is on an external paste website
http://dpaste.org/OR2cU/
The hidden input ensures I only search the calendar but it pulls back every occurance of a recoccuring event. Can I make it only pull back the upcoming version?

Thanks

[Jonah]

Hi David,

We don’t have a solution for this but another user in a thread contributed a possible solution: https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/reoccuring-event-shows-multiple-times-in-loop/

Maybe that will help?

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