todays event only widget

[Nick]

I couldn’t find or work out if its possible to display just the events for today’s date in the widget area.

Thanks
Nick

[Nick]

anyone?

I couldn’t find or work out if its possible to display just the events for today’s date in the widget area.

Thanks
Nick

[Dario]

This is not possible with the standard widget.

If you have the capabilities to make your own widget, then the following code should get events for that period.

<?php
$events = eo_get_events(array(
'events_start_after'=>'yesterday',
'events_start_before'=>'tomorrow',
));

if( $events ){
global $post;
echo '<ul>';
foreach( $events as $post ){
setup_postdata($post);
?>
<li>
<a href='<?php the_permalink() ?>'>
<h5><?php the_title(); ?></h5>
<p><?php echo eo_get_venue_name(); ?> on the <?php echo eo_get_the_start('jS F'); ?></p>
</a>
</li>
<?php
}
echo '</ul>';
wp_reset_postdata();
}else{
echo '<h5>No Events Today</h5>';
}
?>

[Dario]

Here’s a link to the above code, all nicely set out: http://cl.ly/OENj

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Nick,

There’s no existing option for that, but as Dario has said you can create your own widget to do this.

A minor correction to Dario’s post, the query should be:

$events = eo_get_events(array(
     'events_start_after'=>'today',
     'events_start_before'=>'today',
  ));

As the event date attributes are inclusive. Of course that retrieves events that start that day, if you have an event spanning a few days you may want to show events running that day:

$events = eo_get_events(array(
     'events_end_after'=>'today',
     'events_start_before'=>'today',
  ));

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