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Martin Becker
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November 2, 2019 at 4:26 am
Hi, I’m using EE4 with Elementor. To have more flexibility in terms of page design, I’d like to be able to display an event’s datetimes anywhere I want using a shortcode, just like the ticket selector shortcode, so something like [ESPRESSO_DATE_TIME event_id=your_event_id].
Thanks,
Martin
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Tony
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November 4, 2019 at 5:56 am
Hi Martin,
We don’t have a shortcode like this but using our model system you can pull any information you need into a WordPress shortcode.
We have some documentation on our models here: https://github.com/eventespresso/event-espresso-core/tree/master/docs/G–Model-System
Details on creating your own shortcodes can be found on various tutorials, example:
https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-add-a-shortcode-in-wordpress/
There are a few situations you will need to account for in a shortcode like this, especially when pulling a single (or multiple?) DateTime(s) based on the event ID, as a single event can have multiple datetimes.
So, for example, would a shortcode like the above always pull the ‘next’ upcoming DateTime or list all DateTimes on an event?
If showing the next upcoming datetime what if the shortcode was used on a page for 1 instance of a datetime and then used later for another, the ‘previous’ page may now be outdated with the ‘wrong’ date.
You may be better creating a shortcode to pull specific datetimes based on the DateTime ID but it all depends on your use case for this.
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