[Plugin: Event Organiser] 1.5.1 Events list widget URL bug

Hi Jhanse –
Thanks! I’ve just spotted that the event permalink points to the url for the event venue in the event list widget. Is that the bug you were experiencing? You mentioned ‘all sorts of things’ – so let me know if I’ve missed something. If I haven’t then I’ll push this update later today. ??

As an immediate fix: line 301 of the class-eo-event-list-widget.php change

case 'event_url':
          $venue_link =eo_get_venue_link();
          $replacement = ( !is_wp_error($venue_link) ? $venue_link : '');
     break

to

case 'event_url':
          $replacement = get_permalink();
     break

I would recommend making this change rather than reverting back to 1.4.2 – 1.5 included some internal rearrangement: if you upgrade to 1.5+ and then back to 1.4.2 and then create events – there is a chance those events could behave oddly when you update to 1.5+ again.

Thanks again Jhanse!

Sorry, I meant the class-eventorganiser-shortcodes.php file.

Cool! Thanks for the fast reply. I have a follow-up here.

Is it possible to somehow retemplate the widget display without going into the plugin itself? Like with the templating system for the single-event.php for example where I can override the default in my own theme. I made some tweaks to the core files this time around and I’d have to redo those every time an update comes along.

Is there any simple workaround? Thanks!

You can pass a ‘template’ string as one of the widget options. This is what is used for each line of the event list and can include placeholders for the event url, venue, datetimes etc. (you can find a list of placeholders here under the ‘template tag’ heading, 1.5 also added a duration option).

It wraps it inside <li> still though. The default template, for example, is

"<a title='%event_title_attr%' href='%event_url%'>%event_title%</a> on %start{{$date}}{{$time}}%";

But others have wanted to show events in a table – and I’m currently looking into making the above more flexible. One approach would be to allow users to choose a template file from their theme (defaults to a plug-in provided one) which outputs the mark-up.

If you want that level of control though you can also create your own widget in your functions.php or a functionality plug-in. All it does is use eo_get_events() to query the relevant events and then goes through the array displaying the lists.

Was there another bug – or has that resolved it? (It has in my tests…) – If so I’ll push a bug-fix

Wow, nice! I’ll get around to trying one of these options.
<li> is not a problem for me, so that’s great.

The URLs are OK now, but I have a separate problem now (maybe a WP issue). When I try to access any venue page, I get a 404 that it doesn’t exist. I have permalinks set up the default way in EO and as Post name in WP. Any suggestions what it might be? It’s also buggy with some of my custom post types when I have permalinks turned on (used to work fine, stopped working all of a sudden). When I go back to the default WP settings though, they show up.

Well, darn it! Now it works! It all works. Yours and mine. Without me changing anything (to the best of my knowledge). Now I’m really dumbstruck. ?? Any idea what it could’ve been related to?

Permalinks are always tricky.. ??

Whenever the structure is changed the permalinks need to be flushed (this can be done by going to WordPress’ permalink settings and clicking save). Even then you need to be careful to avoid a conflict otherwise you end up with 404s.

Thanks for the tip! I’ll be careful in the future. ??

This should be fixed in 1.5.2, just released :).

updated and working without a hitch! thanks a lot! also managed to get the widget template in order so it’s nice and neat now.