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I’m trying to create an “archive” page using a list of past events, with a different format than the main events list. I’m trying two different approaches, and neither are working.
The first plan was to use the shortcode, but it is somehow ignoring my format tag and also putting some extra text into the output. So then I thought I’d try putting in a widget, but the eventslist widget isn’t pulling past events. When I ask for past, it says “no events” and when I ask for all, it only gives me future events.
My page is: http://www.onefeinday.com/sdincose/archives/
The first section is the widget, currently set to pull “all”. (The sidebar is another widget set to pull only future.)
The second section is the shortcode, just to see what’s going on: [events_list scope=past order=DESC limit=0]
The third section is this:
<ul>[events_list scope=past order=DESC limit=0 format=”<li>#M #j #Y – #_LINKEDNAME #_ATT{SPEAKER}[events_if tag='#ESC_ATT{SPEAKER}'] [events_if2 tag='#ESC_ATT{TOPIC}'] on [/events_if2][/events_if]<em>#_ATT{TOPIC}</em></li>“]
</ul>Any idea how to make this work? Or how to make the widget pull past events (since I’m hopeful I can make the formatting work there)?
Thanks!
Formatting should always work, but you need to be careful with quotes there.
The widget works just fine for past events, see my example on http://www.e-dynamics.be/wordpress
You can also use a filter, see http://www.e-dynamics.be/wordpress/?cat=41
* Hrm. I think all of my quotes are matched correctly. How would you suggest I tackle the quotes, since I need quotes to surround the entire format tag and I need quotes to identify the events_if tags? Do I perhaps not need all of those quotes?
* Any ideas on why my widget isn’t pulling past events? I’ve got it set to pull all events, but as you can see it’s only pulling future events. There are clearly past events in the database, since the second and third calls on the page are pulling them. What can I do to troubleshoot?
Concerning the quotes: I can’t tell from here. I would need to see/experiment for myself with your settings.
The widget: no idea. Again I would need to test on your system myself, and maybe get a dump of your db.
Is that something you’d be willing to try? I could set you up with a WordPress account, since it’s still a pre-production site.
Well sure, mail me an account: liedekef [at] telenet.be
But I can’t promise you anything before tomorrow evening though (probably Wednesday, construction works are starting here …)
Done. Thanks! (Please let me know if the email didn’t come through; I’m not positive I have that part configured correctly…)
Mail arrived ok. The widget works fine: when selecting past events, make sure you select the correct category (or none) to show: you only have 2 past events and they have no category.
Is that enough?
OK, I feel pretty silly about the widget/category thing. Thanks for that.
I’d love to get the shortcode/quotes working, too, though, since I think that may prove more versatile in the end. The widget was just a workaround…
Ok, the format issue is a bit weird. I’m moving this to bugs so I don’t forget to look at it.
For reference to myself: the problem seems to be with encapsulated shortcodes (which I don’t know if wordpress supports fully). The page content:
<ul>[events_list scope=past order=DESC limit=0 format="<li>#M #j #Y - #_LINKEDNAME #_ATT{SPEAKER}[events_if tag='#ESC_ATT{SPEAKER}'] [events_if2 tag='#ESC_ATT{TOPIC}'] on <em>#_ATT{TOPIC}</em> [/events_if2] [/events_if] </li>"] </ul>OK, I’ll run with the widget for now. I took the shortcodes out of the page. Thanks again!
PS, to help other troubleshooters — I had a similar (looking) problem with the formatting in my widget, which turned out to be caused by inadvertently having back to back brackets. I didn’t see it in my code, because they were separated by a placeholder. But when the placeholder’s value was empty, that space went away…
It’s a wordpress thing: encapsulated shortcodes are screwing things up, so you can’t use a shortcode (something with “[…]” inside another shortcode. See the limitations section on the wordpress API page: http://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API
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