[Plugin: Events Manager] Show events as regular posts (articles)

do you mwan WP_Query?

If so, then yes, you just need to make sure post_type = event or the constant EM_POST_TYPE_EVENT

This is the code i’m trying out, but it posts my events after published date, instead of start date.

What is the EM_POST_TYPE_EVENT, and how do I use that? is there any documentation, examples?

<?php
	$loop = new WP_Query( array(
	'post_type' => 'event',
        'posts_per_page' => 5,
)); ?>

<?php while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post(); ?>

<?php // added this to be able to use shortcodes and placeholders
	$EM_Event = em_get_event($post->ID, 'post_id'); ?>

	<h4><?php echo $EM_Event->output('#_EVENTLINK'); ?></h4>

<?php endwhile; /* End loop */ ?>
<?php wp_reset_query(); ?>

not atm, working on it

I mean like this:

$loop = new WP_Query( array(
	'post_type' => EM_POST_TYPE_EVENT,
        'posts_per_page' => 5,
));

your way should work fine though, maybe you need to add this at the top

global $post;

Marcus: I was never able to use WP_Query like you described, but found another solution, and now it also sorts my events posts with start date instead of publish date.

<?php
	global $query_string;
	query_posts( $query_string . '&post_type=event&posts_per_page=5' );
?>

interesting, i wouldn’t think there’d be a difference there….

Hi all, thanks for this snippet. I am trying to do the same but to only show events in the frontpage that are occuring TODAY’s date. How can I do that?

thx

I added aglonwl’s snipped into my functions.php

add_filter( 'pre_get_posts', 'my_get_posts' );
function my_get_posts( $query ) {
	if ( is_home() && false == $query->query_vars['suppress_filters'] )
		$query->set( 'post_type', array( 'post', 'event' ) );
	return $query;
}

and the posts are now being displayed on the front page. However, the entire post is being displayed instead of a summary (as I’ve set in wp settings), and adding more tags does not help. How can I fix this?

chances are you need to disable ‘override with formats’ in Events > Settings > Pages > Events List/Archives

downside is this’d apply to the events page too, you could get round this by leaving that option on and adding this sort of thing:

add_action('template_redirect','my_homepage_em_change');
function my_homepage_em_change(){
	if(is_home()){
		add_filter('option_dbem_cp_events_formats',function(){return false;});
	}
}
}

disclaimer: not tested

Hey Marcus, thanks for the quick response mate!

I followed your advice, and disabled override with formats in Events List/Archives but that didn’t affect the front page.
When I disabled formatting for Event Pages, this then caused the event posts on the front page to behave like regular ones (with the “more” tags working, which is all I really want), but of course without the map and other goodies from the formatting.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t the code you gave code working, but from what I understand of it, it will disable formatting on posts only when they are on the home page, which will remove the maps and stuff once again, but I can live it that if it works.

I think there’s an extra } in that code snippet. I played around with this and it worked for me:

//prevents formatting on the homepage if the events in homepage mod is used
function my_em_homepage_eventformats(){
	if(is_home()){
		add_filter('option_dbem_cp_events_formats',function(){return false;});
	}
}
add_action('template_redirect','my_em_homepage_eventformats');

problem now is that events with bookings still show the booking form, would require some more digging.