Recently our horse club met to plan out our events for the year. A few things that were troublesome for us were:
\n– we can’t choose weekends where people in our particular sport might be attending a similar event elsewhere (eg. barrel racing). It would be nice to know what other clubs were planning similar events and when.
\n– we needed a venue that has: both an outdoor and indoor arena, kitchen facilities for our concession; ample parking for many trucks\/trailer rigs; pens available to board the horses overnight.
\n– etc. etc.<\/p>\n
I looked at several solutions for WordPress. I chose The Events Calendar because it was the only one that I found that displayed a nice list of events on the month view of the calendar. Other solutions only highlight the date\/square if there is an event(s). Bonus – yours let’s you hover over each item and event details are shown in the pop-up! LOVE IT!!<\/p>\n
Issue one – taxonomy: I am finding that the functionality for venues is very limited. There is no taxonomy for them. I was able to use a plugin that allows for adding custom taxonomies. I can now, for example, sort venues by “has kitchen” or “has sound system,” and display them as a list. Unfortunately, these options are shown when posting an event. It’s just one big list now – event categories and the new venue taxonomy categories. But I can live with that. Very soon I will monetize the site as this is a much-needed resource for our industry. So the long list will be confusing to users.<\/p>\n
Issue two – map view of venues (and filtering): I would like to display all venues on a map. I found your post regarding a shortcode for this ( [tribe_venue_map] ), and added the snippet to my functions.php file. It works great but 3 things – when the map loads, it is a world map. Is there a way to make the map know the location of the visitor and make that the default zoom level for them? Also, there is no way to filter the venues. Thirdly, when you click on the map marker, the title of the venue shows up, but it is not clickable. It would be great if the title was hyperlinked to the venue’s page.<\/p>\n
I may have to install a separate “directory” plugin, and duplicate the venues. I am a “plugin minimalist” \ud83d\ude42 and don’t want to do that unless it’s absolutely necessary!<\/p>\n
Sorry for the long post. Hope you didn’t doze off while reading… \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1532435","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n