[Plugin: Events Manager] Location, event widget & post type help

1) Check your Pages settings (in Em settings) and make sure you have a location page assigned, then, make sure you have a corresponding page on your normal wp pages section.

2) Not sure… could you try disabling other plugins?

3) You would have to modify your theme or use another plugin that inserts custom post types into the home page. I’ve never used subscribe2 but if should be possible to use another plugin to do this sort of thing, you can just choose to show a EM format style or just display events as a regular post/page.

Hi Marcus,

Thanks for the reply, and kudos on such a great plugin. It was one of the pivotal plugins that made me decide on WordPress.

1) That’s the weird thing. During install I got an error regarding the Events and Location pages not being created. I’ve since manually created pages for these, however they do not appear in the drop down list for “Events page” or “Location page”

2) Disabled all plugins bar Events Manager (not that I had many installed). No difference.

3) Excellent. Any suggestions?

Ok, installed a fresh version of WP 3.3.1 with the only plugin other than the default being EM 5.0.51. The only config change I’ve made from the default is to enable permalinks using a custom structure of “/%category%/%postname%”.

Things noted;

1) Pre installed locations are still not listed in dashboard despite the All & Published count being 3.

2) Going to the EM settings -> Pages -> Event List / Archive no pages are listed in the drop down box despite 5 being listed as published (pages are not showing in the dashboard either). The same goes for EM settings for Location List / Archive.

3) When setting the “enable archive” to no for the above EM settings (which as I understand means you would need to have a page set) I get the following message;

“Uh Oh! For some reason WordPress could not create an events page for you (or you just deleted it). Not to worry though, all you have to do is create an empty page, name it whatever you want, and select it as your events page in your settings page. Sorry for the extra step! If you know what you are doing, you may have done this on purpose, if so ignore this message”

4) The events widget still does not show any events, even with it set to show all events. The Location widget on the other hand does show all the locations.

I’m not sure what’s going on with your site, but I think this is something bigger than EM, because your WP pages aren’t even working.

Could you try turning off your permalinks from your WP settings >permalinks page to see if it’s something to do with that?

Hi Marcus,

You are correct. I ended up enabling PHP and MySQL error logging and found that certain pages (page & event location dashboard view for instance) were triggering MySQL out of memory errors. I reconfigured my MySQL server settings and all the issues I had bar being able to use subscribe2 have been resolved.

Now that is done, back to the subscription issue. Subscribe2 does allow notification for pages as well as categories, however as the contents of the page don’t actually change it doesn’t trigger it to send out notifications apart from the first time I publish the events page.

Any suggestions for a plugin that can insert custom post types into a standard post? I also don’t have to use subscribe2, is there a plugin for EM that is able to send out email notifications to subscribed email addresses?

Thanks again for your aid Marcus. Having not used EM before I wasn’t sure what expected behaviour was, so your feedback helped me clear this up.

I’m sure there must be one out there when a new custom post type is published, or similar, but you could also use the RSS feed to notify people of new events? e.g. mailchimp allows you to grab an RSS feed.

Thanks again for your help Marcus. I had a look at Mailchimp, however from what I could see RSS driven campaigns were only capable of sending out notifications based on time interval where I need notifications to be sent out only when new content is published. Subscribe2 has this functionality and was one of the reasons I was looking to use it.

I did find this page on the Subscribe2 support site

https://subscribe2.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/subscribe2-and-custom-post-types/

Basically says to enter this code to Events Manager (substituting “my_post_type” with the required custom post type) to have Subscribe2 send notifications for it.

function my_post_types($types) {
    $types[] = 'my_post_type';
    return $types;
}

add_filter('s2_post_types', 'my_post_types');

Assuming this is correct the question here would be where should this go, and what is the name of the Events custom post type I should be putting in place of “my_post_type”?

As for the populating the homepage with events issue, would I be right in thinking editing the following line in my index.php file would do the trick?

<?php get_template_part( 'content', get_post_format() ); ?>

‘event’ should work.

not sure about the second bit… you probably need to filter by post type somehow

Marcus

Are you planning to add some functionality to allow email notifications to subscribers when a new event is added (ideally allowing for specific categories to be selected). If you are planning to do this any idea of when? If not are there any good alternatives that you know of that are easy to set up I have looked at subscribe 2 but this does not appear to function as an easy addon to the system.

yes, but no fixed eta atm.

am going to marked this as resolved.