leemasondesign

Hi Guido

Sorry – you did indeed, I had sent over my follow up before realising you had responded, thanks kindly for your response – I will test now!

Thanks,

Lee

Thanks Guido…..

So (for the purpose of setting the event image as the background of a div on the homepage) I created my own shortcode.

It is currently pulling the ‘Event Featured Image’ and the ‘Event Title’ – but I would also like to pull the ‘Event start date’ , ‘Event end Date’ – and was not able to figure out what ID’s/hooks to use for these?

The code is:

// CREATE A CUSTOM SHORTCODE FOR A LOOP THAT SETS POST THUMBNAIL AS IMAGE BACKGROUND FOR VSEL

function events_loop_shortcode() {
$args = array(
‘post_type’ => ‘event’,
‘post_status’ => ‘publish’,
‘posts_per_page’ => 1,// Limit to one latest post
);

$my_query = null;
$my_query = new WP_query($args);

if($my_query->have_posts()):
while($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();

$event_image_url = wp_get_attachment_url( get_post_thumbnail_id($post->ID) );

echo ‘<div class=”event-box” style=”background-image: url(‘. $event_image_url.’)”>’; //Set post thumbnail as background container image
echo ‘<div class=”event-info”>’; //Wrapper for event info
echo ‘<div class=”event-title”><h3>‘.get_the_title( $id ).’</h3></div>’; // The event title
echo ‘<div class=”event-date”><h3>‘.$widget_start_date.’</h3></div>’; //The date
echo ‘</div>’; // Close event info wrapper
echo ‘</div>’; //Close event box

endwhile;
wp_reset_postdata();

else :
_e( ‘Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.’ );
endif;
}

add_shortcode( ‘events-loop’, ‘events_loop_shortcode’ );

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Thanks, Lee