[Plugin: The Events Calendar] Want to create a Page that calls/contains calendar – what code to inse

  • Simple question I havent been able to find the answer to,

    Since all Pages create a link automatically in the menu bar of my template, I wanted to make a Page that basically is the event calendar. I have created other similar pages before that call up other plugins like my forums, galleries etc..

    I’m just wondering what code I insert into the Page to call up The Events Calendar –

    using [the-events-calendar] doesnt seem to work for example. Thanks.

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  • Well, I’m moving on. Not sure why you decided to keep us in the dark about what is probably second nature to you. After three hours I quit. Back to google calendars (which took an hour) unfortunately! I do encourage you to explain this issue with your future users. Looks like an awesome script/plugin. Thanks.

    Sorry to bitch with my original post: Man, I’ve read the entire plugin instructions, notes, description etc. etc. three times, the setting page blah, blah and not once do you suggest where to put the shortcode.

    C’mon guys put one sentence anywhere so this doesn’t have to happen to anyone else. Just a sentence. A clue ??

    @vayu: THANK YOU I WAS GOING INSANE… i assumed something like that was needed but talked myself out of it figuring the developers would have for sure included it in the templates they provided….

    “No setup required. Just plug and play!” <– lies!

    @pbspirits: there is no shortcode. you have to take the templates they provided and build off of them, adding in pieces such as Vayu mentions above.

    @seb: You are a GOD for posting that. I copied and pasted just like you said and with only a few tweaks I was up and running with a page that looked exactly like I wanted. All hail Seb! ??

    Hi all,

    I have followed all the bits and pieces and pretty much have my calender perfect and even within theme. But I used the snippet of code that Vayu suggests, <?php query_posts('category_name=events'); ?> , which works great and brought my calender grid view alive on my page, but as soon as I use any navigation it simply doesn’t do anything. I click for next month and it changes the URL to what looks like should be the URL for the next month but the page itself stays on current month. Drop down navigation does the same.
    I have looked everywhere and tried all bits and pieces to no avail. I am average in coding but no expert and is all becoming a blur now.

    WP: 3.0.1
    TEC: 1.6.4

    Can someone please advise where I should be looking to correct the issue.

    Thanks
    Gizmo

    I have been living with the fact that my “schedule” page posts oldest events at the top. Since everything else worked awesome, I was living with it, but in the past week the newer posts were bumped off the main page and it stopped working for me.
    I have hunted and gathered off the forum, and came up with a small fix for it with trial and error and felt a plain English addendum to my previous post was necessary for anyone who doesn’t understand a lot of code.

    If you wish for your list view calendar template page to display only upcoming events, open your template and find the code:

    <?php query_posts('category_name=events'); ?>
    Replace it entirely with this:
    <?php query_posts('category_name=events&eventDisplay=upcoming'); ?>

    This will give you a page that displays entries or events out of the calendar set in the future. However many posts per page you have set will display as usual, as far as I can tell, and you can still navigate to list/calendar and past events via a link your page should display if you followed all my previous steps, I did insert a <br/> in my template page before the </div> tags, but that was purely cosmetic. Code Sourced from This
    I have not messed with a past event display, since I figure wp’s basic archiving function covers that fairly well, and I know the important events are the ones that are still going to happen.
    I assume that a display of past events can be made by replacing:
    category_name=events&eventDisplay=upcoming with category_name=events&eventDisplay=past but I could be wrong. XD;
    Hope it helps if anyone is having the same issue.

    @gizmo81 –
    I did not have that problem in any of my experiments. So I’m not sure how much help I will be, but I can think of two places to look on a ‘Murphey’s Law’ basis. I also consider myself average in code, but possibly not as good as you are looking for:

    1. Have you updated your plug-in or word press version between coding the template and putting it up on the site for use? fix – remake your template with the latest version of code.

    2. Have you been altering code in files other than your specifically created page template? fix – reset it all to default, and start again. Altering your main site header can make things look exactly how you want them too, but can really alter your site function across the board. I have stuck to only altering my separate page template file, and have had no unexpected errors in my site function aside from making the specific page work as desired. Is it possible you turned the actual file for one of your calendar views into a template by accident?

    Just some starting places, I save original versions of all my files to make sure I can go back to defaults…I hope I helped you a bit, Good Luck!

    I’m looking for a way to just list the upcoming events on a page, just like we have the ability to do so in a sidebar or footer.

    So I basically want the same setup as the widget, but want to hard code it into a page. Does anyone have any ideas on this?

    Thanks!

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