Simple Upcoming Events on homepage

[Jason]

Hello,

I am helping a client (who I’m logged in under) build their new website. We are both new to Events Calendar Pro. They are currently using Jupiter’s child theme to build the site before migrating the domain: http://f73.937.myftpupload.com/

We would like to add an Upcoming Events “row” to the homepage, where I simply just get a text list of events that appear side by side, and have the future option of having images associated with the upcoming events (although looking through the forum, it looks like the graphics/photo option requires customization and isn’t an easy plug and play option right now?).

Since we are not using WordPress’s posts as my homepage, wondering if you can point me in the right direction? The only option I see is to add Upcoming Widgets to a sidebar.

Thanks in advance for your help!
Rachel on behalf of Jason Steffen

[Geoff]

Hi there, Rachel! Thanks for getting in touch.

Good question. You can do a query for events right in the template itself using either tribe_get_events() or even the default WordPress get_posts(). This article also has a lot of great information on how to set up a custom WordPress query that you might find useful.

Cheers!
Geoff

[Wendy]

I try to use this on my site, but is not working,

this is the link
http://csttestsite.com/10998-2/

I’m using aveda theme

[George]

Hey Wendy,

On the link you posted, it seems like the code that Geoff mentioned above has not been added correctly to your site – here’s a screenshot of what I see, the code is being printed onto the page instead of actually running → http://i.imgur.com/AwhMmzx.png

To help keep things organized and ensure that we can solve your issues as fast possible, can you open up a separate thread on the support forums here? We’ll handle your issues there – be sure to elaborate on exactly what you’re trying to do, and exactly what changes you’ve made so far.

Thanks!
George

[George]

As for your original questions here Rachel, I’m curious, has the code that Geoff linked to above been helpful at all?

Let us know what you were able to put together with the information in those articles.

Thanks,
George

[Wendy]

This reply is private.

[George]

Hey Wendy,

I’m very sorry for the delayed response here.

As for your issues, unfortunately if your theme’s code-box widgets are not working, there’s not much we can do to change that from our end. Code-box widgets are not good practice and not recommended for use, anyway, but if you would like to use them, I think contacting your theme developer is your best bet for addressing that specific problem.

What I would recommend, instead of a widget, is to edit theme files directly. If you’re not familiar with doing this, it’s unfortunately a little bit outside of the scope of plugin support we can offer here on the forums, but if you look up how to modify files on your web server, it should be fairly straightforward from there:

Basically, there will be a template file in your theme that renders the space in your sidebar where your code is currently not working – the sidebar where you can add widgets like the code-box widget.

In this template file, you can just use that same code but add it directly into the files manually, and then save the file. This will ensure that the code at least runs, and if issues still pop up with the code at that point, we could then troubleshoot from there and hopefully get things working.

Let me know if you can manage getting the code directly into theme files – use the web and your theme support for assistance with specifics on that if needed, and be sure to keep backups of your original theme files and of any modifications you make like this.

Thanks for being patient with the delayed response here!

— George

[George]

Hello,

This issue’s been sitting here a while so I’m going to go ahead and close it for now – if other issues arise, don’t hesitate to come back and open a new ticket, and if you need to open a new ticket about the same issues you originally brought up here, please share a link to this original ticket so we can pick up where we left off.

Cheers!
George

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