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December 20, 2012 at 2:22 pm

Hi Kim,

I can only think of one way to get your events to show for individual speakers in a sidebar. You can use a plugin like Genesis Simple Sidebars. I have used this plugin with success, although I haven’t used it with Event Espresso. It should be as easy as adding a custom sidebar, then using the Genesis – Featured Posts widget. Then, you can create post categories for your speakers. When you create an event, choose to create a post for the event, and attach the category of the speaker to the post. Does that make sense?

Post back and let us know what you find.

December 20, 2012 at 5:20 pm

Hi Kim,

Since Event Espresso dynamically generates the registration page and shopping cart on the same page, it’s not possible to use a standard theme sidebar widget to display custom content for each event. The work around that Jonathan mentioned that you could try involves using the Auto post feature, which will allow you to customize the sidebar for each post that gets created for each event when you use this feature.

December 21, 2012 at 8:59 am

Hi Kim,

One thing that might help to know is that Event Espresso manages the post for you. So when you update the event, the post that’s tied to the event will automatically update when the changes in the event are saved.

December 21, 2012 at 2:06 pm

Hi Kim,

What does happen? When you update an event, please be sure that the Add/Update post for this event is set to Yes.

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Also, if you have the custom post type feature enabled, you could try disabling it in the Event Espresso>Template settings.

December 21, 2012 at 6:14 pm

Hi Kim,

I’m glad to hear that. In case anyone else is reading this topic and is trying to add a shortcode to a sidebar widget, there is a filter you can add to a custom function plugin that will make this happen:

if (!is_admin())
  add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode', 11);