Show past events by year

[hhmediadesign]

I really need a solution or work around to be able to show past events by year. I am building a site for an art galley and they would like to allow users to search by year for past exhibitions. Does anyone have any suggestions? I’ve found the get_events functions but cannot work out where I would put them. Any help or point in the right direction would be wonderful! Thank you, Hillary

• This topic was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by hhmediadesign.

[Sky]

Hi Hillary,

Thanks for reaching out. I will try to help with your question if I can. Please keep in mind that we are limited in scope for how much support we can provide for customizations.

Our plugins do not have a “year” view unfortunately. You could create a custom page template using tribe_get_events, and supply the start and end dates for a particular year, but this would not provide an interface for navigating between years.

Another option would be to add a category that corresponds with each year. You could then link to the category for each year. But again, this would not provide a streamlined interface for navigating.

In the search bar, you can click on the year in the datepicker and be shown a list of years. But clicking a specific year only shows the months for that year, requiring you to drill down to a specific month before showing a list of events.

Those are the default options. Unfortunately, it might take some custom development to implement. Maybe another user has solved a similar problem and will chime in with their solution?

Thanks,
Sky

[hhmediadesign]

Thank you for your reply – in the end I THINK it’s been solved… I purchased the Filter Bar and have added an Additional Field called year and added 2018, 2017, 2016 and so on. And I’ve selected YEAR as an option to refine search on the filter bar. I am now adding exhibitions from previous years so I can test it out. It means my client will have to remember to add YEAR each time which is a bit of a pain for an events based website but it should work for now. Hopefully ‘search by year’ will be supported in the future. And hope this post helps someone else who is trying to solve the issue of filtering past events by year. Thanks!

[Sky]

Hi again,

Great! Glad to hear that you were able to find a solution that works for you.

Please let me know if you have any additional questions about this.

Thanks,
Sky

[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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