Show Google Maps and Google Maps Link by Default

[Eric Reynolds]

How can events automatically display Google maps and Google maps link by default? I know how to hid the fields on the submission form via CSS, I just don’t know how to enable the settings by default so that all submissions automatically display the map and link.

🙂 Eric

[Nico]

Hi Eric,

Thanks for reaching out to us! I’ll help you settings this up 🙂

I guess the simpler way is to edit the venue form template and mark those inputs as checked per default. As they are not being displayed to the user they won’t be able to uncheck those. Before I describe the process please be sure to check our Themer’s guide to get an idea of how template overrides work.

You’ll need to override the venue.php template located at wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar-community-events/src/Tribe/views/community/modules/. Once you have the copy of the file placed correctly in your theme (or child theme) folder, you’ll need to do the following edits:


// change line 185
<input type="checkbox" id="EventShowMapLink" name="EventShowMapLink" value="1" <?php checked( $venue_show_map_link ); ?> />
// whith this
<input type="checkbox" id="EventShowMapLink" name="EventShowMapLink" value="1" checked />

// change line 200
<input type="checkbox" id="EventShowMap" name="EventShowMap" value="1" <?php checked( $venue_show_map ); ?> />
// whith this
<input type="checkbox" id="EventShowMap" name="EventShowMap" value="1" checked />


This should do the trick! If you prefer not to edit the template we can do this in other ways, via JS or hooking up to some actions that happened after the event is submitted/edited.

Please let me know about it,
Best,
Nico

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