Venue matching in iCal

[Edward Weiss]

Hi,

Is there any way to make the import of venues from an iCal feed a little more flexible, e.g. using a regular expression? If one character is off the import creates a new venue… Thanks!

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Edward,

This is kind of possible. You can filter the venue array of any imported venues, and change their name so they match the appropriate existing venue:

add_filter( 'eventorganiser_ical_import_venue', function($venue, $event, $event_id, $ical){
    //change $venue['name'] so that it matches the name of an existing venue
    return $venue;
}, 10, 4);

[Edward Weiss]

Thanks, Stephen.

Dumb question — what do I do with this snippet? 🙂

[Stephen Harris]

You can put it in theme’s functions.php, or preferably a custom plugin:

https://wp-event-organiser.com/blog/tutorial/where-should-i-put-code-from-the-tutorials/

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