Using Homepage as Events Page

[Douglas LaMunyon]

Hello,

It’s my understanding that The Events Calendar/Pro does not currently support displaying events on the Homepage unless one were to create a custom homepage query using template tags, etc.

I just wanted to check and see if this was correct, and if there were any other options? This seems like a fairly common request, and we were surprised that there wasn’t a simpler option.

Is this feature currently on the road map? If not, we’d like to put in a feature request for this. For those of us who aren’t so fluent in php this is quite a daunting task.

Thanks so much, and we welcome any and all ideas for how to make the default events archive feed into the home page. I did find a 3rd party plugin that lets you use a shortcode to display events in the content area, and it works, but it doesn’t quite allow for many customizations beyond what the plugin comes with out of the box, not to mention we would rather not have to use a 3rd party plugin since this is a premium plugin that we have purchased.

• This topic was modified 10 years, 1 month ago by Douglas LaMunyon.

[Brook]

Howdy again dmlws,

You are basically correct, the only way to truly display the calendar on the homepage would be to hack something together, not an easy task at all. This is because our plugin is relies heavily on WordPress’ API, and is thus just WP Custom Post Type Archive page. WP very specifically makes these pages not the home page, when they are the home page WP starts breaking.

However, a lot of our customers simply forward their homepage to the events via a HTTP 302 redirect. So when a user visits the home page, the server responds with the /events/ page and you’re all set. This has worked for most folks, it’s what our demo site does.

We are also working on making full calendar views embeddable via shortcode. Once this feature is available you would be able to embed the full calendar in another page, including the home one.

Does that all make sense? Can I explain anything in more detail here?

Cheers!

– Brook

[Douglas LaMunyon]

Ok, that makes total sense. That redirect option was one solution we discussed, but I wasn’t sure it was necessary. Thanks for confirming all of that.

We will watch for a shortcode option for TEC in the future – hopefully that would also be applicable to embedding list views. Fingers crossed.

Thank you again, that’s what I needed to know.

Take care!

[Brook]

You are welcome!

We have basically finished storyboarding out all of the [shortcode] views. And they are slotted for a release later this year. We might end up releasing all of their capabilities over two release, but the end goal will definitely handle your scenario.

Schedule wise we just did a feature release, we have for 4 more “maintenance” releases over the next 8 weeks scheduled, then we will be onto another feature release. Last I heard shortcodes might make the cut for our next feature release. It’s an enormous feature that will has taken tons of time already, but we’d like to get it out the door ASAP.

Cheers!

– Brook

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