Hi @ron!
Guga here, from the Events Calendar support team.
The Events Calendar doesn’t provide an integration with AIOSEO, and as mentioned by @arnaudbroes, the “Event Date” you see in the AIOSEO smart tags is the post type publication date, and not the event meta field which stores the event start date.
Adding the Event start date would require a customization, getting the correspondent meta field from a post and insert that on the title.
As an example, I can share a small PHP snippet that shows how to create a custom function to get the event start date and register it for the Yoast SEO plugin, and maybe @arnaudbroes can show us how to register that as a new variable for the AIOSEO smart tags instead.
Here’s how to do it when using Yoast SEO:
if ( class_exists('Tribe__Events__Main') && class_exists ('WPSEO_Frontend') ) {
// SINGLE EVENT - Variable
// Add the event start date variable.
function get_tec_event_start_date() {
$event_id = get_the_ID();
$start_date = tribe_get_start_date( $event_id, false, tribe_get_date_format() );
return $start_date;
}
// Add the event end date variable.
function get_tec_event_end_date() {
$event_id = get_the_ID();
$end_date = tribe_get_end_date( $event_id, false, tribe_get_date_format() );
return $end_date;
}
function register_custom_yoast_variables() {
wpseo_register_var_replacement( '%%event_start_date%%','get_tec_event_start_date','advanced','Get the event start date' );
wpseo_register_var_replacement( '%%event_end_date%%','get_tec_event_end_date', 'advanced', 'Get the event end date' );
}
// Add action
add_action('wpseo_register_extra_replacements','register_custom_yoast_variables');
}
@arnaudbroes based on that snippet below that register a new variable for the Yoast SEO plugin, can you show us how to do the same but for the AIOSEO plugin?
