Show Google Maps link by default on Facebook Import?

[Remco]

Hello,

is it possible to show the Google Maps link by default when importing Facebook Events?
The event adress and map is showing well.
Thank you.

[George]

Hey Remco,

This is unfortunately not possible without customizing the core Facebook Events code directly. This is not recommended, and it’s a code change that will be erased when you auto-update the plugin in the future (so you’ll have to re-make this code edit after every edit), but you can fortunately do it very easily.

All you have to do is look in the main Facebook Events importer plugin file and look for code that looks like this:

// set the event's map status if global setting is enabled
if( tribe_get_option('fb_enable_GoogleMaps') ) {
    update_post_meta( $event_id, '_EventShowMap', true );
}

You should find that somewhere between lines 720 and 770 of the main file, depending on your version of the plugin and such, but you can just do a search for ‘fb_enable_GoogleMaps’ and it should come up.

To automatically set the Google Maps link as well, add another update_post_meta() call underneath the one in that code above, like this:

// Set the event's map status if global setting is enabled
if( tribe_get_option('fb_enable_GoogleMaps') ) {
    update_post_meta( $event_id, '_EventShowMap', true );
    update_post_meta( $event_id, '_EventShowMapLink', true );
}

Then, save the file and try importing – it should work fine for you!

Let us know if this helps!

George

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