Conditional Custom Attributes

That will happen anyway – if there’s no value for #_ATT{Buy Tickets} nothing will be printed on the screen.

It’s not quite working like that.. here is my page
https://192.185.167.175/~laurente/belle/entertainment/

One event has tickets, one event doesn’t

My shortcode for the page is Buy Tickets

It’s outputting the buy tickets button even when i leave the custom attribute on the event listing field blank

Whoops! It hardcoded the short code

a href=”#_ATT{Buy Tickets}”Buy Tickets

Sorry, I’m confused. Both the events on that page have the same HTML for the Buy Ticket button. What am I missing? Thanks.

I am going to have a full list of event, some of these events will be free, and therefore wont need a buy tickets button, some of them will cost money and need to be linked to an external site to purchase the tickets.

I created the custom attribute for the events listing to link to whatever I set the custom attribute to on the individual event.

I want my event listing to only output the custom attribute if I actually have a url filled into the custom attribute field.

It’s displaying the buy ticket button for an event that does not have anything filled into the buy tickets field in the event listing.

I think the solution I am looking for is some kind of conditional on the attribute where the shortcode for the attribute only appears if there is a value for the attribute inside an individual listing, however, I do not know how to do that.

Sounds like you need to wrap the HTML code for your Buy Ticket button in the {not_free} conditional placeholder. Like this:

{not_free}HTML code here{/not_free}

https://wp-events-plugin.com/documentation/conditional-placeholders/

is the not free code linked directly to the built in booking system? My ticket button is for an external ticket booking system. I created it as a custom attribute because it links to an external url in a new tab.

If I attach that conditional placeholder, it makes the ticket link disappear for an event that has a buy ticket button attribute

Yes, if you give your event at least one non-free ticket the conditional tag will show the Buy Ticket button.

You may want to edit the single event template to hide the Events Manager booking form and show your Buy Ticket button there too.

I think my ticket terminology is confusing things.

Essentially, I just need a custom attribute that is a button that links to an external url.

I wrote the code for the div to make it appear as a button and to pull in the specified custom attribute as a url using the tag.

I need the whole div and the contents within the div to not display if there is no value in that attribute. Right now, the div is not outputting a specific value if I do not define one, however, the div itself is still displaying on the page.

https://192.185.167.175/~laurente/belle/promotions/
Bobby rush has a value for buy tickets, and it links to that url
Hot 8 Brass Band has no value for buy tickets, so it doesn’t link anywhere but the button itself still shows up

maybe this link can help you out – https://snippets.webaware.com.au/snippets/events-manager-conditional-placeholders-for-custom-attributes/