Link rewriting and custom event pages

  • We have several “types” or “series” of events that need to have additional information attached. So for example “Conference A”, which contains “Workshop A”, “Workshop B”, “Workshop C” etc. That information doesn’t need to be attached to each event, but is rather some type of introduction or overview.

    So for that reason I either thought about setting up a “custom category page” (a special page that only lists events of a certain category) or just a general custom page. However I’m running into several issues, especially with links.

    1. It seems it’s not possible to create custom category pages, only have a custom page for the categories archive. Creating a custom page with the same slug as a category (e.g. events/categories/my-category-overview) seems to get overwritten by the default category listing.
    2. It also doesn’t seem to create pages as child pages of the ‘event’ page. For instance, I created an event with a slug of “events/myeventA-02-04-2021”. When I know create a default wordpress page and nest it under “events” called “myeventA”, Events Manager seems to automatically redirect any access to “events/myeventA” to the event mentioned before.

    Is there any way to work around this?

    Ideally, I’d like to create a custom page “Conference A”, listed under “events/conferenceA”, containing some bit of custom content plus a list of all the events being part of that “category” (or tag, or if there’s any other way to group events), and then be able to create several events being listed as “events/conferenceA/workshopA-02-04-2021-venueA”, “events/conferenceA/workshopB-02-04-2021-venueA” etc.

    • This topic was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by maelscuttle.
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  • Plugin Support angelo_nwl

    (@angelo_nwl)

    Hi,

    At the moment this requires custom coding on your part to make this work.

    e.g. https://wp-events-plugin.com/tutorials/using-additional-custom-taxonomies/

    https://eventsmanagerpro.com/support-policy/

    Thread Starter maelscuttle

    (@maelscuttle)

    Hi there.

    Thanks for your guidance. I’m a WordPress beginner so I might have done something entirely wrong here, but even with the approach with a custom taxonomy it seems that Events Manager completely ‘oversteers’ any redirect which isn’t ‘category’ or ‘locations’, or even seems to match existing events which have a slightly similiar slug.

    I’ve installed Pods as suggested on the tutorials page you linked, and created a new taxonomy called ‘events-page’ and assigned it the rewrite slug ‘events/pages’. I’ve then tried to associate the taxonomy both through the Pods admin UI as well as using the code approach explained in the tutorial, however everything Events Manager still seems to take precedence, e.g.

    An archive page for ‘events/pages’ -> 404
    A taxonomy page for ‘events/pages/my-convention’ -> redirects to an event called ‘events/my-convention-20-03-2021’ (given it exists)

    I’ve already ruled out that it might be something else than Events Manager by simply deactivating the plugin – and suddenly it works as intended. I’ve also tried to refresh permalinks, and re-save the permalinks settings of Events Manager, no luck there either.

    • This reply was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by maelscuttle.
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