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Deborah Fox
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July 10, 2015 at 9:12 am
I am considering purchasing the EE4 Grid View Add-On and want to make sure I understand exactly what it is capable of. I would like to have my Events home page using this template, but with a dynamic display — so that the events will automatically update to show upcoming events at the top. Am I correct in understanding that the add-on does this? I’d also like to create a page for each event category I use, and also have it use the grid display. And again, I’d like the events shown to be sorted with upcoming events shown at the top. Will this add-on accomplish both of these things?
Finally, one more variable to consider. Our site already has well over 100 events pages. We only recently purchased EE4, and so for now only our upcoming events are input into EE4. In order for me to list previous events within the categories I’ve created in EE4, am I looking at a significant amount of work getting our past events sorted by categories? I’m hoping that it can hopefully be accomplished by simply adding in a tag to each past event page. Is this true, or is it more involved than that?
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Lorenzo Orlando Caum
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July 10, 2015 at 9:40 am
Hi Deborah, the Events Grid View template doesn’t replace the default /events/ page — rather it is another way for you to present your events.
Similar to the events calendar add-on, it uses shortcodes which you could use to show a certain category of events:
https://eventespresso.com/wiki/events-grid-view-template-add-on/#ee3usage
Based on what you’ve shared, I think it will work for you. Could you take a look at the shortcodes in the link above and let us know if you have any other questions?
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Lorenzo
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Deborah Fox
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July 10, 2015 at 11:12 am
Thanks, Lorenzo. I had looked through that link. I understand this plugin isn’t a template for a page. What I meant was that I’d like to present my events in a grid on my events home page. Honestly, I haven’t used shortcodes before — all of the customizations I’ve done so far I’ve accomplished through CSS, or through adding functions to my site specific plugin. I want to make sure I’m not taking on something that I can’t do myself.
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Lorenzo Orlando Caum
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July 10, 2015 at 11:22 am
Okay, I was perhaps overthinking it. It works similar to the events calendar add-on in terms of activating it.
You copy and paste a shortcode and then the content appears. No other changes are needed.
If needed you can override the layout by editing the template. However, that isn’t required.
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Lorenzo
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Deborah Fox
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July 10, 2015 at 11:52 am
Thanks. I appreciate your help!
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Deborah Fox
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July 10, 2015 at 12:49 pm
I’ve installed the Add-on. Could you please tell me how I can tag my older events (from before EE4 was installed) so they will be included in the event categories I’ve created?
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Josh
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July 10, 2015 at 1:24 pm
Hi Deborah,
This could be tricky because it turns out the EE4 Grid View add-on is programmed to only display events created by Event Espresso. It does not display regular WordPress posts or pages.
I can look into the tagging idea though. One thing I need to know is are the old events published as WordPress Pages, Posts, or their own custom post type?
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Deborah Fox
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July 10, 2015 at 1:42 pm
All our old events are on a custom post type.
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Josh
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July 10, 2015 at 2:54 pm
Hi Deborah,
I looked at the code in the Grid view template, and short of re-writing most of the plugin, it will not display your old event’s custom post type.
I can recommend using the Display Posts Shortcode plugin to display the old events on the same page as your upcoming events.
Here’s a basic example (You’ll swap in your old custom post type slug in for your-event-post-type):
[ESPRESSO_GRID_TEMPLATE]
Archived events
[display-posts post_type="your-event-post-type" image_size="thumbnail" wrapper="div"]
An example that includes categories and tags, where you’d tag your old events to match up with your new Event Espresso categorized events:
[ESPRESSO_GRID_TEMPLATE category_slug="category1"]
Archived events for this category
[display-posts post_type="your-event-post-type" image_size="thumbnail" wrapper="div" tag="tag1"]
Hope that helps!
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Deborah Fox
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July 14, 2015 at 1:36 pm
Thank you, Josh. I think I’ll copy a few of our most recent events into espresso, then have the older ones displayed as a list.
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Josh
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July 14, 2015 at 1:40 pm
You’re welcome.
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