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Im getting the same, “no related posts” also the plugin options page doesnt seem to work, I only have the display options visible and now one of them is shut and the toggle to open them does not work! Tested in latest FF and IE9!

I have v3.4.1 of the plugin

the wp-events-plugin.com barely works. So slow or just doesnt load pages, and that wasnt just yesterday but the day before that too.

I do what I wanted eventually by adding a “Featured” Category and finding out its ID in my case it was 3.

I then added this at the top of events-list.php :

echo "<h2>Featured Events</h2>";
echo do_shortcode('[events_list category="3"]');

Does the trick, now just got to add styles.

I have to say being a non-coder I find the templating system very difficult to follow for this plugin, looks like its all variables passed from other functions.

Sorry to hijack this thread a bit but I see things that might be useful to my own issue.

I want a featured event area above the event search on the list page. How do I obtain the category id to create a conditional statement?

Would I just use: echo do_shortcode('[events_list category="8"]');

Thanks in advance

That isnt the logic you are currently using though.

Whats this bit doing, is there other code you havent posted:
if($content = $post->post_content ) { ?>

Currently your code is saying:

If post has a thumbnail display the thumbnail with a link to posts permalink

else display a thumbnail with an external link.

You ar enot using an argument to find it there is an external url or not, also you are not displaying any clickable link titles/text.

So you are using the $custom variable to hold the external url using:
$key="featured_external"; $custom = get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, true);

You should use this for you if statement:

if($custom != ""){
<a href="<?php echo $custom; ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>">
 <?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?>
</a>
} else {
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>">
 <?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?>
</a>
}