Title: Event Shortcode Errors
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Event Shortcode Errors

 *  Resolved [rynjwssl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rynjwssl/)
 * (@rynjwssl)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/event-shortcode-errors/)
 * I would like to have a featured event section on my landing page, and when I 
   use the [event] shortcode it says the map is unavailable and the featured image
   is not displayed. Ideally, I would like the featured image and underneath it 
   would have the event information, and perhaps a link to the event page where 
   the map would be displayed. Is this possible? Please and thank you for any help.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager/)

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 *  Plugin Support [angelo_nwl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angelo_nwl/)
 * (@angelo_nwl)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/event-shortcode-errors/#post-5442982)
 * just to narrow down the problem and help us debug the issue is it possible to
   try the following temporarily:
 * – deactivating all other plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this
   works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(
   s).
    – switching to the default theme to rule out any theme-specific problems
 *  Thread Starter [rynjwssl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rynjwssl/)
 * (@rynjwssl)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/event-shortcode-errors/#post-5443040)
 * Thank you for responding angelo. I deactivated all other plugins and nothing 
   changed, and I switched to Twenty Fourteen and nothing changed.
 *  Plugin Support [angelo_nwl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angelo_nwl/)
 * (@angelo_nwl)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/event-shortcode-errors/#post-5443043)
 * hmm, can I know the actual shortcode you used ?
 *  Thread Starter [rynjwssl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rynjwssl/)
 * (@rynjwssl)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/event-shortcode-errors/#post-5443047)
 * This is the shortcode I used: [event post_id=”1″][/event]
 *  [caimin_nwl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caimin_nwl/)
 * (@caimin_nwl)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/event-shortcode-errors/#post-5443049)
 * You either need to use the shortcode without a closing tag…
 * `[event post_id="1"]`
 * …or put placeholders between the tags:
 *     ```
       [event post_id="1"]
       #_EVENTNAME
       [/event]
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [rynjwssl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rynjwssl/)
 * (@rynjwssl)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/event-shortcode-errors/#post-5443053)
 * Okay so I wasn’t aware of this. Everything shows up properly by using the placeholders
   between the tags.
 * For future reference for anyone that encounters the same problem:
 * If you want to have the featured image on the left with information about the
   event on the right first you create two columns.
 * In the first column: [event post_id=”#”]#_EVENTIMAGE[/event]
    In the second column:[
   event post_id=”#”]#_EVENTNAME #_EVENTDATE….[/event]
 * Here is a link to all the placeholders that can be used ([http://wp-events-plugin.com/documentation/placeholders/](http://wp-events-plugin.com/documentation/placeholders/))
 * There wasn’t great documentation for this on the website unfortunately, it would
   help if that were added. Thank you for your help angelo and caimin_nwl!

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## Tags

 * [featured](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/featured/)
 * [image](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/image/)
 * [map](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/map/)
 * [shortcode](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/shortcode/)

 * 6 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [rynjwssl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rynjwssl/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/event-shortcode-errors/#post-5443053)
 * Status: resolved