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Bastien — Can you tell me “NO, event-post does not support multiple schemas” — or tell me “Yes, we do, and here’s how to do it”? I’d appreciate your help (and maybe many others would like to see how to do it).

So, does EventPost allow different formats/layouts for different pages? Please say “Yes” or “No”. Thanks!

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Yes, that was the help I needed! Here is my final post-level schema code:
[events_list item_schema="<%child% class='event_item %class%' data-color='%color%'> %event_date% <a href='%event_link%'> <strong>%event_title%</strong> </a> <em> %event_excerpt% </em> %event_location% </%child%>" excerpt="1" nb="25" cat="meeting,webinar" order="ASC" future="1" past="0" geo="0"]
Note that the regular “event-post” content needs to be embedded in the events_list code, right after the schema information.
See the final web page: https://www.e-lynx.org/?page_id=972

Bastien — This is helpful. Can you now answer my “more general” question on schemas, posted two weeks ago? I’d like ONE general item schema for most pages (which I know how to customize), but then a CUSTOM Schema for one particular page. Am I able to override the Item Schema with a special one, on one specific web page? See https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/per-page-schema-settings-advice-for-success/
Your advice and support is very good — thanks!
Paul

If anyone can give me guidance on setting up the per-page schema, I’d appreciate it! I have three clients’ websites that need this. Thanks!

Bastien — Yes, I’m beginning to understand how to use a custom Item Schema in the code for a webpage. But I’m still not doing it correctly. When I use my custom code on a web page, it seems to be ignored, or maybe it is over-ridden by the default one that I entered in Settings / Event / Item Shema that should apply in general cases.
Can you give me corrections to this code? For example, this might be the code on a web page:

[events_list future="1" cat="meeting" excerpt="true" item_schema="%random% class="event_item %output%" %event_date% %event_location% data-color="%blue%" <a href="%event_link%"> <strong>%event_title%</strong> </a> <em>%event_excerpt% </em> </%random%>"]

— I replaced %child% with %random% — is this OK, or does it need to be “child”?
— I replaced %class% with my choice %output% — is this OK?
— Do I have the “” and <> pairs accounted for?
— As I say, this isn’t over-riding the default (so, my fields are not in the new order)
— How would you write this, so that the metadata fields are in the new order in my item_schema=”” statement, rather then the default order? Thanks!

Ste_Yeu — I don’t show my “Post” date on my Home Page listing of events (www.e-wavelengths.org); instead, I use the Event Post “schema” to set up what is shown, and include the actual event date there. For example, I replace the “standard” one:
Go to: Settings / Events / Item shema (sic)
Item Schema that I used instead of the standard one:
<%child% class="event_item %class%" data-color="%color%"> <a href="%event_link%"> <strong>%event_title%</strong> </a> <em>%event_excerpt% %event_location% </em> %event_date%</%child%>
The result:
Role of Electromagnetic Simulations in Product Design –– (EMC) — numerical approaches, computational tools, integrating antennas, miniaturization issues …
(Troy) … Dec 15 at 5:30 pm … ical Google outlook

This shows some basic ways to play with the appearance of what you show on your website’s pages (change bold/italic/color).

Stavroch and Bastien — Here’s what I picture: we set a parameter (number_per_page) to, say, 15. Now the most recent past 15 events are on the first “archive” page, and at both the top of the page and the bottom of that page are navigation links: “Previous” and “Next”. Clicking “Previous” brings the viewer past events 16 through 30; click “Previous” again goes to 31 through 45; etc. Also, we need the “search” function to have a box to enter some text — might be the last name of a previous speaker, or a company name, or a topic (eg, “lasers”). This should search the full database of past Events (maybe even the upcoming ones?) There might be an “Advanced Search” where I could put in a date range, or other limiting parameters.
This could also apply to future events: the nearest upcoming 15 events are on the first of the pages, and any that are farther in the future (eg, next February and March) are on a “Next” page.
Other thoughts?

Bastien and others — yes, I’ll follow the Stavroch thread — thanks. As we get more “past events” we need a good way to show the full archive (such as with “previous” and “next” links).

Bastien — thanks for the link — this solves one of my issues! I’m glad you’re so informed about WordPress options and capabilties.

Yes, it would be helpful if, there are no qualifying Categories or Dates, an optional (customizable) text statement could be displayed. Example: “No events currently scheduled; check back soon.”

Bastien — Yes, I agree. The one “code” thing I’d like you to keep is being able to put in custom Container and Item Schema definitions, using the parameters you’ve made available. I can wait for your changes.

Bastien — The “Visual” vs “Text” mode was a different problem; we solved it with a restart. So I’m completely happy! Thanks ….

Bastien — yes, this solved my problem with the Schema entry. I still have a minor problem with the editor in my Posts screen — it stays in “Visual” mode, won’t change to “Text” mode. See if this raises a flag for you — have you encountered anything like this? I’ll do some more checks and post my results in a day or so.