showing past+future events by category

[Dinos]

Hi all,

I don’t have a bug or anything – I’m just trying to figure out how to accomplish something with Events Calendar Pro. I’ve found many, many tutorials / help docs / examples but I can’t figure out my specific combination of needs.

I have four categories that are seasons: winter, spring, summer and fall. I want to display events from those categories (past and present for the current year) side by side so it looks like this:

Winter | Spring | Summer | Fall
Event 1 | Event 1 | Event 1 | Event 1
Event 2 | Event 2 | Event 2 | Event 2
…and so on

Essentially past/current/future events by category displayed in columns.

I’d love some guidance on how to get this done. Thank you! 🙂

[Geoff]

Hi Dinos and welcome to the forums! I hope you’ve been enjoying PRO so far and appreciate your support. 🙂

Interesting question! I honestly haven’t seen a good example where multiple categories are displayed in a comparative fashion on the same page. I think the closest we have to a “built-in” solution for this is our Filter Bar add-on, which allows visitors to filter events by multiple categories and see them on the same page. Maybe that’s worth checking out?

Otherwise, I think you’d be looking at a fairly hefty customization, judging by the sounds of it. There’s also the possibility of posting an idea to our feature request forum so we can see review it for something to be considered as a future feature enhancement.

Sorry I don’t have more of a concrete solution for you, but does this at least help answer your question? Please let me know if you have any follow-up questions here and I’d be happy to help. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

[Dinos]

Thank you Geoff! Appreciate your reply. I’ll if I can find alternate solutions. The filtering add on might help – I will take a look at it. Thanks for that suggestion. Is there a way to at least see all events for a year (past+present) for a given category?

Is there a way to see a specific category of events with events in the past?

Thanks again for your reply!

[Geoff]

My pleasure and thanks for following up!

Is there a way to see a specific category of events with events in the past?

Yes, in fact, you link directly to any category of events using this URL pattern: [your-site]/calendar/list/category/[category-slug]?tribe_event_display=past

So, for example, here would be your URL for past events in the Weekly Workout category:

[your-site]/calendar/list/category/weekly-workout/?tribe_event_display=past

Is there a way to at least see all events for a year (past+present) for a given category?

I think the best way to do that would be to create a custom template and use the tribe_get_events() function to display the exact events you want. This gives you the flexibility to show any type of event (past, current and upcoming) within any date range and contained in a specific category. We have a tutorial to help you get started.

Cheers!
Geoff

 

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