Displaying additional fields

[Dale Bulbrook]

I’ve added additional fields to the form and they display fine but it’s not clear how to get this information to display on the event page itself. Is there a shortcode or does the template need to be edited?

Shortcode being used on one page is

[users_events] 

(user’s logged in page)
and

[eo_events] %event_thumbnail% %event_title% Date & Time: %start{jS M Y}{ g:i:a}%
Location: %event_venue% [/eo_events] 

for general view.

An example field added is an input for website, label website and metakey eventWebsite. Similar inputs added for Facebook and Twitter URLs.

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Dale,

The additional fields store data in the selected meta key. So, if you were using a template you could retrieve the value via:

 $value = get_post_meta( $event_id, 'eventWebsite', true );

Note, you will need to define $event_id (usually you can use get_the_ID(), but it will depend on context).

For the [eo_events] placeholder you can use the %event_custom_field{key}% tag. E.g.

 %event_custom_field{eventWebsite}%

[Petra Mezei]

Hi Stephen,
I was looking for the same thing and found this thread, not quite sure i understand your reply though.
So i have added some extra fields to the submission form and would like to display these items on the events list with [eo_events] shortcode.
What do i need to do and where?
Thank you

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Petra,

For each custom field added (i.e. non-event field), you would have selected or created a meta key. This a string identifier for that piece of data for any given event. You can change this in the field’s settings.

If that key were foobar you can retrieve that data in a template with:

$value = get_post_meta( $event_id, 'foobar', true );

or, for [eo_events], you can use the placeholder %event_custom_field{key}% tag. E.g.

%event_custom_field{foobar}%

The key is exactly the key you might use in the custom fields metabox on the event admin page. In deed, that is exactly how the data is being stored.

[Petra Mezei]

Hi Stephen,
Thank you for your reply.
Sorry it might be a dumb question but where do i place this code? I have no idea:
$value = get_post_meta( $event_id, ‘foobar’, true );

I’d also like to display the username and avatar of the user that posted the event. How do i do that?
Many thanks

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Petra,

While you can use placeholders with the event list shortcode – there aren’t placeholders for username / avatar, so you’ll need to customise the template. See also http://docs.wp-event-organiser.com/shortcodes/events-list/.

Then, for example, the following will print the event custom field ‘foobar’ wherever it is placed in the template:

echo esc_html( get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'foobar', true ) );

Please see the the WordPress codex for details on displaying an avatar and username. You can get the submitter ID via:

 $submitter_id = eo_fes_get_submitted_event_meta( get_the_ID(), 'submitter', true );

which you can use to get the avatar / username. Please not that this assumes the submitter is logged-in (as otherwise they won’t have an ID).

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