Custom Fields Not Working

  • Resolved nelsonleemiller

    (@nelsonleemiller)


    5 years, 3 months ago

    Hello, I love your plugin! I want to use it with Divi, but there is an issue and Elegant Themes helped me understand it. We are wanting to use Div’s dynamic content to show event data like “Event Time” within a Divi module. This works great in any other plugin…except yours. Their support explained why, so I am requesting that you change your data to remove the _underscore. Here’s what they say:

    “The problem is that that plugin stores all the custom fields data under fields where the name starts with the character underscore _
    WordPress ignores any custom field that starts with _ , such as the one of your plugin and Divi does the same, because lots of plugins are storing data about individual posts that shouldn’t be shown on the front-end. In fact, custom fields starting with _ shouldn’t be available to the customer and, in most cases, it just stores data that is used by the theme or by 3rd party plugins in order to better handle the page.
    The Events Calendar stores their data under these custom fields: _EventCost, _EventDuration, _EventStartDateUTC, _EventEndDateUTC”

    So as you can see, the data in your plugin DOES need to be displayed on the front end, so it should not have this underscore. I would appreciate it so much if you could make this compatible. If not, I’m afraid the millions of users will need to find other event plugins that already support this.

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  • Plugin Contributor Andras Guseo

    (@aguseo)

    Hi @nelsonleemiller

    Thanks for reporting this to us.
    I understand your issue.

    Changing the meta names (like _EventCost et al) would require us to rework a lot of the codebase. I don’t want to give you false hopes, this is probably not going to happen.

    However, while this is something we cannot address overnight, I did bring it to the attention of the development team. I do hope we will be able to come up with a solution or a workaround for this.

    A theoretical workaround I can imagine is, when the event is saved / updated, it takes all the metadata and saves them under a different name as well, that doesn’t start with an underscore. Then you could use that second set of metadata.

    Hope this helps.
    Andras

    Plugin Contributor Andras Guseo

    (@aguseo)

    Hi again @nelsonleemiller

    We have an article about something similar, that might be helpful and could give you a start.

    Please check it out here:
    https://support.theeventscalendar.com/167955-Integrating-The-Events-Calendar-with-Slider-Revolution-and-Essential-Grid

    A.

    mmturner

    (@mmturner)

    Hi there,

    I’m having the same problem. I’m trying to use TEC metadata in Revolution Slider.
    Am I right that this is not possible at this time? Is there any workaround?
    Can anybody provide clarity?

    Thank you!

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