Multiple eo_events Templates

[Omayr McAdam]

Hi Stephen,

I want to have 2 differently formatted lists and so I created a custom template file for the Events Lists.

While this method allows me to change the formatting and add in some extra PHP, I can have 1 template page that’s used for the shortcode.

Is there any way I can pass an argument through to the template file so I can change the template based on an if statement. Or do you see any other way to accomplish this?

This is the output after PHP

Template 1

<h2 style="text-align: center;font-size:50px;line-height:55px;"><?php the_field('event_organisation'); ?></h2>
<h1 style="text-align: center;font-size:62px;line-height:67px;"><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
<h3 style ="text-align: center;font-size:50px;line-height:55px;">Raum: "<?php echo $venue_name; ?>" <?php echo $floor; ?></h3>

Template 2

<h2 style="text-align: center;font-size:50px;line-height:55px;"><?php the_field('event_organisation'); ?></h2>
<h1 style="text-align: center;font-size:62px;line-height:67px;"><?php the_title(); ?></h1>

[Omayr McAdam]

Maybe an easier way is to create Page Templates within my theme that contain the loop within them, However I would need to tell the loop to only show events happening today.
Thats the only actual argument I pass to the loop. so this might be an easier method.

Your guidance is appreciated.

[Stephen Harris]

The template for the shortcodes if filtered by eventorganiser_event_list_loop, but there is no context there unless you rely on the global context (e.g. using WordPress’ functions to determine what page is being viewed – i.e. is_page()).

But I think your latter suggestion is much more straightforward. To get events happening today you can use event_start/end_before/after attributes

  $events = eo_get_events( array(
       'showpastevents' => true,//toggle depending whether you want past events
       'event_start_after' => 'today', //this is inclusive          
       'event_start_before' => 'today', //this is inclusive
  ) );

Strictly speaking the above is events which start today. But you can reconfigure that using event_end_after to show any events which might be running that day (e.g. they start yesterday, but finish tomorrow). More details can be found here: http://codex.wp-event-organiser.com/function-eo_get_events.html

If you prefer to use WP_Query:

  $query = new WP_Query( array(
       'post_type' => 'event',
       'suppress_filters' => false,
       'showpastevents' => true,//toggle depending whether you want past events
       'event_start_after' => 'today', //this is inclusive          
       'event_start_before' => 'today', //this is inclusive
  ) );

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