To create a new list widget or not that is the question.

[Ken Charity]

I have a situation that I was using the list widget to quickly display the next 5 events on the home page in a widget area.

I was only showing the event title, start date/time and end date/time. However, I didn’t want the title to link to the single-event pages because this was a single page site. So in my child theme I was able to make a copy of the widget output file (tribe-events > pro > widgets > list-widget.php) and edit it just how I wanted it to be.

Later I was asked if I could make a button to all the events, so I edited that back into the code. Then the site started to grow into more than just a single page site. So I created the pages needed for the calendar and single-event pages and created a custom header so the nav buttons worked on secondary pages.

Finally, on the single-event pages I wanted to show the list of events in the sidebar. But since I edited the list widget now the links didn’t work for the titles, and I wanted them to for this application (but still leave the home page without links).

So what is the easiest solution here? Is it possible to duplicate the widget, and have one version modified and the original version?

[Ken Charity]

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[Jennifer]

Hi Ken,

Thanks for reaching out!

First, I want to mention that the plugin has a default calendar page, as well as single pages for each event that you create. It sounds like you may have created new pages for all of your events and for the default calendar? One thing to note is that you will not see an “Events” page in your Pages list. You can get to it by going to yourdomain.com/events (or you can change the URL by going to Events > Settings > General > Events URL Slug).

To display the titles on the home page without links, the easiest method would probably be to conditionally wrap the titles in the link using !  is_home() or ! is_front_page() (in the widget template you edited before) to check if you are on the home page. That should allow you to use the widget in both places. Does that answer your question? Please let me know if that works for you or if you need any help implementing it!

Thanks,

Jennifer

[Ken Charity]

Hi Jennifer,

I see how you could have thought that I created pages based off my initial thread. No I didn’t create actual pages in WordPress. I understand how TEC works in that sense, sorry for the confusion.

I get what you mean about using conditionals with the widget template. That may be the way to go. I appreciate your efforts.

Thanks
Ken

[Jennifer]

No problem, Ken. I do think the conditionals would be the easiest method here…trying to duplicating the widget would involve quite a bit more development work.

If you get stuck with the code, please let me know and I’ll be happy to help!

Thanks,

Jennifer

[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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