Group within group

Resolved aself
(@aself)

11 years, 8 months ago

I have my events displayed by month already. Within the month, I’d like to group certain events. We teach continuing education classes so for instance, we have events that students can attend that offer all of their CE hours for a special price. However, they can just take certain classes within that event if they want to pay for single classes.

Currently, on the following page, the first 2 events are individual events. However, the next 8 are part of ONE event, but comprised of 8 classes.

http://cdavidmcvayschool.com/re-mcvay/tucson/

So far I have an attribute assigned to each of those classes to see if I could group them somehow, but I’m stuck now. Can you point me in the right direction?

https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/events-manager/

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Plugin Support angelo_nwl
(@angelo_nwl)

11 years, 8 months ago

maybe you can try to use event categories? eg. http://pastebin.com/f6DVrzZS

As for where to paste this : http://wp-events-plugin.com/tutorials/how-to-safely-add-php-code-to-wordpress/

Thread Starter aself
(@aself)

11 years, 8 months ago

Thanks Angelo. Looks like a good place to start, but I’m not sure how to use it. Do I replace something in the function with a category name?

caimin_nwl
(@caimin_nwl)

11 years, 8 months ago

If you just use [category_events_list_group] in a page, the events will be grouped by category.

Thread Starter aself
(@aself)

11 years, 8 months ago

This is the shortcode I’m currently using, [events_list_grouped mode=”monthly” category=”tucson”][/events_list_grouped]. I have a different page for each location already. Does Angelo’s suggestion do anything different?

After further reading, it seems like custom taxonomies might be a good solution. I’d like to display the main event (called a mcvay-a-thon) with the location, description, etc., but have shorter, individual events displayed underneath. I would list them in the description, but want to offer the option of registering for an individual event ONLY online. This is how we currently do it on our old (very old) website, http://cdavidmcvayschool.com/continuing_education/pima.htm

Are custom taxonomies the right solution?

Thanks again.

Thread Starter aself
(@aself)

11 years, 8 months ago

Sorry to post twice, but I think I can accomplish what I need with css. How can I add a css class to an event and target it in my style.css file?

Thanks!
Plugin Support angelo_nwl
(@angelo_nwl)

11 years, 8 months ago
you can try something like this
```
[events_list_grouped mode="monthly" category="tucson"]
 <a href="#_EVENTLINK"> #_EVENTNAME </a>
[/events_list_grouped]
```
http://wp-events-plugin.com/documentation/placeholders/
Thread Starter aself
(@aself)

11 years, 8 months ago
I’m not able to see how that groups events any differently than what I have now.

This is what I have so far in “Default event list format”:
```
<li class="event-item">
            <div class="event-date">
                  {not_long}#_EVENTDATES{/not_long}{is_long}Starts #_EVENTDATES{/is_long}<br/>
                  {not_long}#_EVENTTIMES{/not_long}
            </div>
            <div class="event-main">
                        <h3>#_EVENTLINK</h3>
                         <p class="cat-att">#_ATT{Continuing Education Category}</p>
                         <p class="event-description">#_EVENTNOTES</p>
            </div>
            <div class="event-location">{has_location}<i>#_LOCATIONTOWN</i>{/has_location}
            </div>
     </li>
```
When I add an event, can I assign a css class to that event somehow so that the css class will be included in the output of that event?

OR

Is it possible to write a function that says, “If an event has a certain attribute, apply this styling to it”?

Thanks again for working this out with me.
Plugin Support angelo_nwl
(@angelo_nwl)

11 years, 7 months ago

please see this tutorial – http://wp-events-plugin.com/tutorials/creating-conditional-placeholders-for-events/

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