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I have tried the same with global sites / global tables turned off – it works fine, the event_id’s are created correctly.

Must really have something to do with global tables?!

Try this:

[event]#_ATT{DESTINATION_URL}[/event]

Placeholder only seem to work like this when using within content…

I could not see the events, they were neither in trash nor saved as drafts, just gone – but still in wp_em_events.

However, for some reason I cannot replicate this error now. Maybe it was just compatibility issues with another plugin.

If this will happen again I will update here.

Thanks for the help!

Hello angelo,

I already got the column to show, as shown in the tutorial above. However, as I said before, I have trouble getting the actual Category Name by post_id (because I do not quite understand the structure of the objects). I can′t seem to get the code right… I was hoping some1 could help me with those 2-3 lines of code.

Hello,

thanks for the help.

For sure I did some mistakes there, however, it was not the only code I tried. (I looked up get_term_by and I suppose it′s only working for a CATEGORY ID, not post_id.)

In another support post someone writes that with this code I get the categories:
$cat = $EM_Event->get_categories()->categories;

Now I suppose I have an Object which is an array of category objects?!

How do I access the category name from there?

already tried
$cat->name
with no luck.

Alternatively
get_the_terms( $post_id, 'event-categories' ) this should get me also the categories, same as the upper code – right?
Here the same problem – how do I get the category name from here on?

Hey,

WP All Import creates Posts and can use custom fields. On the first import from WP All Import it creates the posts under “events”. They yet do not appear in wp_em_events because the posts are marked as “drafts”.

When updating the XML again, the events get updated and because of that, i think, converted into “events” appearing in wp_em_events.

I was wondering which action creates an event and which action creates a post within Events Manager?

And can I set custom fields such as _events_status from outside the plugin (inside WP ALl Import, where I can set custom fields of a post/event)?

It did seem to work all the time, however, I got some problems, I suppose, by using WP All Import Pro.

I have imported XML Files and created Events with them.

I did this a couple of times and deleted the Events in between inside Events Manager. Sometimes I clicked “delete posts” in WP All Import Pro too.

In the end, some events where still in the wp_em_tables in MySQL Database even though I had no entries in the Events Manager.

So be careful…

$latest_posts = new WP_Query($args);

		$output = 	'<div class="w-shortblog '.' date_atleft'.$attributes['el_class'].'">
							<div class="w-shortblog-h">
								<div class="w-shortblog-list">';
		global $disable_section_shortcode, $post;
		$disable_section_shortcode_tmp = $disable_section_shortcode;
		$disable_section_shortcode = TRUE;
		while($latest_posts->have_posts())
		{
			$latest_posts->the_post();

			$excerpt = $post->post_excerpt;
			if ($excerpt == '') {
				$excerpt = get_the_content(get_the_ID());
				$excerpt = do_shortcode($excerpt);
				$excerpt = $this->sections_fix($excerpt);

				$excerpt = apply_filters('the_excerpt', $excerpt);
				$excerpt = str_replace(']]>', ']]>', $excerpt);
				$excerpt_length = apply_filters('excerpt_length', 55);
				$excerpt_more = apply_filters('excerpt_more', ' ' . '[...]');
				$excerpt = wp_trim_words( $excerpt, $excerpt_length, $excerpt_more );
			} else {
				$excerpt = apply_filters('the_excerpt', $excerpt);
				$excerpt = str_replace(']]>', ']]>', $excerpt);
			}

			$output .= 				'<div class="w-shortblog-entry">
										<div class="w-shortblog-entry-h">
											<a class="w-shortblog-entry-link" href="'.get_permalink(get_the_ID()).'">
												<h4 class="w-shortblog-entry-title">
													<span class="w-shortblog-entry-title-h">'.get_the_title().'</span>
												</h4>
											</a>
											<div class="w-shortblog-entry-meta">
												<div class="w-shortblog-entry-meta-date">
													<span class="w-shortblog-entry-meta-date-month">'.get_the_date('M').'</span>
										<span class="w-shortblog-entry-meta-date-day">'.get_the_date('d').'</span>
										<span class="w-shortblog-entry-meta-date-year">'.get_the_date('Y').'</span>
												</div>
											</div>
											<div class="w-shortblog-entry-short">
											'.$excerpt.'
											</div>
										</div>
									</div>';
		}
		$output .=				'</div>
							</div>
						</div>';
		$disable_section_shortcode = $disable_section_shortcode_tmp;
		wp_reset_query();

This is the code that is beeing used by vc_latest_posts.