Title: “Default Event?”
Last modified: September 4, 2017

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# “Default Event?”

 *  Resolved [supernaut510](https://wordpress.org/support/users/supernaut510/)
 * (@supernaut510)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-event/)
 * I have a new site in development for a business that has events EVERY DAY. For
   future events, before an event time/place has been established, they would like
   to display some default information (instead of a blank calendar day or empty
   list), to reassure users that there WILL be an event, but the details aren’t 
   established yet. So this is different from the “No Event Found” message — it 
   would have to appear on the calendar for dates that don’t have a “real” event
   yet. Any idea how to accomplish this?
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fdefault-event%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [Barry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/barryhughes-1/)
 * (@barryhughes-1)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-event/#post-9494473)
 * Perhaps create some all day events to act as placeholders, with suitable “Coming
   Soon!” messaging?
 *  Thread Starter [supernaut510](https://wordpress.org/support/users/supernaut510/)
 * (@supernaut510)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-event/#post-9494508)
 * Thanks for the suggestion, but that would require creating dozens of “throw away”
   events on a regular basis — I think it would make management messy and tedious
   for the client. I was hoping there might be a way to create a default event that
   appears UNLESS another event is scheduled on that day. Maybe that would have 
   to be a custom add-on?
 *  [Abigailm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/abigailm/)
 * (@abigailm)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-event/#post-9495134)
 * [@supernaut510](https://wordpress.org/support/users/supernaut510/) — I’m just
   another user, but here’s my suggestion —
 * If I understand you correctly, you want a generic “Event of the Day” or “To Be
   Announced” message to show up on every page where there isn’t something else 
   specifically scheduled, to show up on the calendar month view.
 * I’d suggest coding an “if” statement in to the /month/single-day.php template—
   I think that’s the template that governs each day, and you could code in statement
   that specifies that if there are no posts (events) for that day, then to display
   the generic text.
 * I’m not a coder so I can’t really tell you how to write the code, but I think
   it would be a pretty basic task. I have found it pretty easy to modify other 
   templates so I would suggest that you start with that. Since your site is under
   development you can play around to see if it works and then tweak things to your
   liking.
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 8 months ago by [Abigailm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/abigailm/).
 *  Thread Starter [supernaut510](https://wordpress.org/support/users/supernaut510/)
 * (@supernaut510)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-event/#post-9495156)
 * Cool – thanks for the heads-up about where to include the IF statement. Sounds
   pretty straight forward. Hopefully I can direct it to the ID of a single default
   event. I appreciate the advice.

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 * Last reply from: [supernaut510](https://wordpress.org/support/users/supernaut510/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-event/#post-9495156)
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