Atte Moisio

Hi, I’ve just updated the plugin with the following shortcodes added:

[if cond="has-category"]hello[/if]
[if cond="has-venue"]world[/if]

You are absolutely right, better remove those ifs!

The only way I know of for deleting the metadata is using delete_post_meta() in case of an empty field. I guess it’s up to you whether you want to do that or not!

I actually just realized that the fix above won’t really be useful without the separate page for passed events :). However, an actual calendar page like this would probably be even more useful.

Hey,

Sure it’s possible. Adding the following to your functions.php should do the trick:

if(is_admin()) {
  add_action('pre_get_posts','am_set_default_admin_event_order');
}

function am_set_default_admin_event_order( $query ) {
  if( is_post_type_archive('am_event') && !isset( $_GET[ 'orderby' ] ) ) {
    $query->set( 'post_type', 'am_event' );
    $query->set( 'meta_key', 'am_startdate' );
    $query->set( 'orderby', 'meta_value' );
    $query->set( 'order', 'ASC' );
  }
}

All recurrent events contain the recurrence id as metadata, which can be retrieved with get_post_meta($post_id, 'am_recurrence_id', true);

If this meta field is set, it means that the post is part of a recurring set.

You can take a look at the source code and search for “am_recurrence_id” to find examples of how it can be used with WP_Query.

Hope this helps!

That would probably be a good idea, yes. For example, to prevent saving invalid urls you could replace the trim function with esc_url.

Hello again, custom fields are now supported!

I’ve also added a [meta key='my_meta_key'] shortcode for the widget to allow displaying custom fields.

Example code for a custom url field:

<?php

add_action('am_save_event', 'am_save_event_url');
function am_save_event_url($post_id) {
	$url = trim($_POST['am_event_url']);
	if (!empty($url))
		update_post_meta($post_id, 'am_event_url', $url);
}

add_action('am_copy_event', 'am_copy_event_url', 10, 2);
function am_copy_event_url($post_id, $recurrent_post_id) {
	$url = get_post_meta( $post_id, 'am_event_url', true);
	if (!empty($url))
		update_post_meta($recurrent_post_id, 'am_event_url', $url);
}

add_action('add_meta_boxes', 'am_add_event_url_meta_box');
function am_add_event_url_meta_box() {
    add_meta_box('am_event_url_metabox', 'Event Url', 'am_event_url_meta_box_content', 'am_event', 'normal', 'high', null);
}

function am_event_url_meta_box_content($post) {

    if (function_exists('am_nonce'))
        wp_nonce_field(plugin_basename(__FILE__), 'am_nonce');

    $metaUrl = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'am_event_url', true);

    ?>
	<input type="text" id="am_event_url" name="am_event_url" value="<?php echo esc_attr($metaUrl) ?>" />
    <?php
}

?>

“Finally a events plugin that’s not doing way too much and adhering to WordPress standards.”

Glad to hear that! It’s pretty much what I’ve been trying to accomplish all along ??

Anyway, I think these plugins you mentioned would have a hard time handling recurring events. If you’re not using them, then I see no problem. What I could do though, is add some custom hooks to allow managing extra fields in your functions.php for example. I’ll see what I can do.

Hi,

Your question is a bit hard to follow but apparently you just want to calculate the duration of an event? If that’s the case, you should look at PHP’s DateTime.

Examples here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/676824/how-to-calculate-the-difference-between-two-dates-using-php

Ok, should now be fixed, try updating the plugin.

I haven’t really used tags anywhere so I can’t really confirm if they are working perfectly, so please inform me if you still have any issues ??

Hi,

You’re right. I’ll try to fix this right away.

Hey,

You can take a look at my child theme example at GitHub: https://github.com/attemoi/am-events-child-theme/blob/master/twentytwelve-child/page-event-table.php

Good to know you found a solution ??

Just to let you know the plugin comes with ready made template tags for exactly that purpose. For a full list see Template tags under Other Notes.

Here are the ones for getting event dates:

am_get_the_startdate( $format = 'Y-m-d H:i:s', $post = 0 )
am_get_the_enddate( $format = 'Y-m-d H:i:s', $post = 0 )

Hi,

Do you mean the general slug for event posts? Have you tried reapplying your permalinks after changing the slug? Just go to Settings -> Permalinks and press Save Changes.

Hi,

This is now fixed, sorry it took so long!