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Hi,
I’m using your very useful plug-in on my page to organise and display events. However, I’ve come across an issue that I could do with some/advice with.
I have a number of different categories, and I would like the theme sidebar/widget area show future events for the same category of the current event being viewed. E.g. if a football match event page is viewed, then I would like the widget area to show future ‘football’ events.
I can use the [events_list category=6] short-code within the widget area to display events for a specific category. However, I cannot work out how to make this dependent upon the current event being viewed.
If I try :
[events_if tag='#ESC_CATEGORIES' contains='Golf']
[events_list category=6]
[/events_if]
then nothing is displayed – it’s as if the [events_if is not being processed in the widget area? But I know something is being processed in the widget area since the [events_list] short-code on its own will work.
Or alternatively, if this is not possible, could the permalinks be changed from events/ID/EVENTNAME to events/CATEGORY/ID/EVENTNAME? In this case, I can use a context-widget plug-in to selectively display widgets based on the URL.
Thanks, Andy
events/cat/<cat_name> already exists as a permalink
[events_if] only works inside events, not surrounding them.
Thank you for your reply.
Re: permalinks. I was thinking about the permalink URL for a event. So currently, an events URL could be http://…/wordpress/events/6/match_1 and http://…/wordpress/events/7/match_2 etc.
Whereas if the events permalink could be changed to include the category then these would become http://…/wordpress/events/football/6/match_1 and http://…/wordpress/events/football/7/match_2.
A context widget would then be able to conditionally disaplay a football-specific widget based on a URL search for events/football.
The problem is: what with events in more than one cat? They would have more than one permalink, then it would be impossible which one to show for e.g. basic [event_list] shortcodes.
What *could* be done: when viewing a single event, I could detect the event id, and based upon that I could show other events in the same category (or categories). But this would only be possible when viewing a single event …
Otherwise I would say to just create different pages for each category, and conditionally show the widget restricted to the same category per page as well.
Must admit didn’t think about events in multiple categories!
When you mention that the event-id *could* be detected – is this likely to be implemented anytime soon?
Thanks for your replies.
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