The problem is the rest of the string: I could test for it and replace #_LOCATIONPAGEURL by an empty string, but it would still leave you with the “Location Details” part …

Maybe I need to add a new possibility: #_LOCATIONPAGEURL{“Location details”} that would generate the whole link part …

Kinda impossible: there’s no relation at all between the attribute and the surrounding html (and each person will do it differently …). I would suggest to use a default value then, e.g.

#_ATT{eventsite}{'No site given'}

It’s not exactly what you want but better than nothing …

I’ll try but that would require the admin to enter the HTML into the attribute…which will be a nightmare.

Please consider setting up conditionals…

Like..

If #_ATT{eventsite} is empty, show X.

If it isn’t, show Y.

Simple If Elses would be awesome and powerful!

Because I don’t see anybody else offer me the code 🙂

But I found a nice workaround for conditionals, still needs to be tested more but this is the idea: in the formatting you can use other shortcodes, so I use the power of enclosing shortcodes wordpress provides to do the following:

[events_if tag='_ATT{eventsite}'] show my html stuff with #_ATT{eventsite} [/events_if]

I still need to refine it, and I’ll add the possibility to test for a value as well:

[events_if tag='_ATT{color}' value='red'] show my html stuff with #_ATT{color} [/events_if]

BUT: it will only work for placeholders you actually USE in that same format string. For the moment I can get it to work for normal placeholders, next thing up: the attribute placeholders and the time placeholders. And then also for the location placeholders of course.

So you see: it takes a lot of work

Example for default single event format could be (don’t mind the html, output will be ugly):

<p>#j, #M #Y - #H:#i</p><p>#_NOTES</p>#_LOCATIONPAGEURL

[events_if tag='_ATT{color}' value='red'] color: #_ATT{color} [/events_if]

[events_if tag='_ATT{price}'] price: #_ATT{price} [/events_if]

[events_if tag='_TOWN'] the town is: #_TOWN [/events_if]

For conditional tags, I added 2 extra shortcodes: one to check if you’re viewing a single event details page and idem for a single location:

#_IS_SINGLE_EVENT and #_IS_SINGLE_LOC

[events_if tag='#ESC_IS_SINGLE_EVENT' value='1'] I'm on the single event [/events_if]

@admintiger: this should help you along now 🙂

A small thing to watch out for: wordpress expects a whitespace before “[” for shortcodes, so this won’t work:

[events_if tag='#ESC_IS_SINGLE_EVENT' value='1']I'm on the single event[/events_if]

but this will:

[events_if tag='#ESC_IS_SINGLE_EVENT' value='1'] I'm on the single event [/events_if]

try again please, the “_” was ignored as part of a placeholder … (and I changed the check a bit as well)

Ok, I was checking with “empty” and the 0-value falls under that cat (you could use notvalue, I implemented these: value, notvalue, lt, gt). I changed the logic, so it should work now.

Try the latest trunk again (the “map” was because of an extra string being printed for testing, and was still in trunk)

Awesome! Is this going to be part of the next release? (when?) as I have a bunch of events stored and do not want to replace a stable release with a trunk.

Thanks for jumping on this! This will make a world of difference.

Fantastic. Looking forward to upgrading and using it.

Btw: do keep me posted on the testing! I want to make sure I squashed all the current known bugs before releasing.

I’m having a problem with [events_if tag="#ESC_ATT{xxxx}"]#_ATT{xxxx}[/events_if]. I haven’t tested it with non-attribute placeholders, but the #ESC portion seems to break it. It works just fine if tag=”#_ATT{xxxx}”. Just wondering what your rationale is for escaping the placeholder.

[events_if tag="#ESC_ATT{Image URL}"] <img src=”#_ATT{Image URL}” /> [/events_if]

Are you saying to only use #ESC if the attribute has quotes or carriage returns?

What is the correct usage? Is it proper to always use #ESC when using the [events_if] shortcode? Or only when the attribute you’re testing for has a quote or other meaningful character?

Works! Thanks…