Display Everything in next 7 days

[chris britton]

Hi,

I’m not much of a dev.

I want to achieve 3 Pages –

1. Todays Events (The whole Post ) – This will be the home page
2. Next 7 Days Events (The whole Post – including all content like archives)
3. Maybe next 30 Days (Maybe full,maybe a list)

If i use the shortcode-event-list I can’t work out how to add all of the content. Is this possible?

Is there a way to show the default archives for say next 7 days? That’s pretty much what I want.

Should I copy the archive pages as a template and change that to only show next 7 days?

Any help appreciated.

Chris

[chris britton]

I’ve managed it.

$original_query = $wp_query;
    $wp_query=null;

    $args = array(
    event_start_after=> 'today',
    event_start_before=>'+1 week',
    post_type=>'event',
    posts_per_page => -1
    );
    $wp_query=new WP_Query($args);
    ?>

Attached to The Archive-event.php and saved as a template. Then saved 3 versions for 1,7 and 30. I’m sure there’s a more elegant way to do this. Especially as I’m using genesis, but i’ll work on that!

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Chris,

Yup, that’s how to do it. I would use a different variable than $wp_query, and don’t forget to call wp_reset_postdata() afterwards:

For your home page you could add the following to your home page template.

$event_query = new WP_Query( ... )
if( $event_query->have_posts() ){
     while( $event_query->have_posts() ):
           $event_query->the_post();
           //the_title(); the_content();// etc are all available
     endwhile;
}
wp_reset_postdata();

For the two you could use the shortcode with the placeholders (see docs). Or you could create a a page template with the above code in it.

Is there a way to show the default archives for say next 7 days? That’s pretty much what I want.

You can add the following to your functions.php

add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'my_set_event_archive' );
function my_set_event_archive( $query ){
      if( $query->is_main_query() && eventorganiser_is_event_query( $query ) ){
           if( eo_is_event_archive() && !eo_is_event_archive( 'day' ) && !eo_is_event_archive( 'month' )  && !eo_is_event_archive( 'year' ) ){
                  //Event archive, but not day/month/year archive
                  $query->set( 'event_start_after', 'now' );
                  $query->set( 'event_start_before', '+7 days' );
           }
      }
}

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