Same Venue Names

[Dan Brubaker]

My client needs to be able to create venues with the same titles but different addresses. I was surprised to find out that this is gives an error and is not possible. I figured that EO would ++ the slugs and allow for this. (Better yet would be appending the city and state to the slug.)

Is there a hook / filter that I can use to allow this functionality?

[Stephen Harris]

So the issue here as you point out is duplicate slugs. Unfortunately because there is no suitable filter you can’t change the slug programatically, however I will add such a filter.

In the mean time a work around is to create a venue with a unique name (e.g. include the city) and then edit the venue name afterwards.

[Dan Brubaker]

Ah, yes. I see how that would work. Thank you!

Adding the filter will be great!

• This reply was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by  Dan Brubaker.

[Stephen Harris]

In the next release, the following will be possible:

add_filter('eventorganiser_pre_insert_venue', function($args){
    $args['slug'] = sanitize_title($args['name'] . ' ' . $args['city']);
    return $args;
});

[Dan Brubaker]

That’s great. Thank you!

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