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February 27, 2020 at 6:58 am

I have 33 event courses to load on EE. I suppose my question is, once they are loaded, where on my website do they appear, without having to go down the (ugly) shortcode path, or is this a necessity.

No, it is not a necessity to use shortlinks, but really it depends how you want it to work.

If you want to list a combination of EE events with others on that courses page you’ll need to use some form of link, be it ‘ugly’ or ‘pretty’, functionality wise it wont make a difference.

Is each of those listings on /course/ is currently manually created?

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Starting from the beginning, is your original issue still a problem?

This link: http://westlondonteachingalliance.com/?p=3144

Looks like it is for an event that has been trashed, the ?p=3144 is basically post with ID 3144. The active event on your site right now has an ID of 3164 so the above wont link to that event.

But, when I use http://westlondonteachingalliance.com/?p=3165

I get the same (the event doesn’t list as trashed, but I get a 404).

First, go to Dashboard -> Settings -> Permalinks.

You don’t need to change anything, just load the page to flush your permalinks.

Let me know when you’ve done that.

And I would ask http://westlondonteachingalliance.com/events/ – being the event listings URL – how I would get the events to appear on this page.

By default, your events will appear on http://westlondonteachingalliance.com/events/

However, note that it is NOT a page (or a post) but an archive of EE Event posts. If you have a ‘page’ using the ‘events’ slug, that’s not going to load as the archive will ‘win’ over a page. You can change that ‘event slug’ in the settings if need be, but leave it as for now and we’ll work through.

The output there is pretty much controlled by your theme, we hook in and add additional details to the_content by your theme needs to call it.

The site is using Divi, and your using a Divi Child theme, so do you have an archive.php or archive-espresso_events.php template file in your theme?

Right now the only way to register is using this page:

http://westlondonteachingalliance.com/nqt-understanding-the-professional-school-environment-expectations-accountability-workload-wellbeing/

I’m assuming thats just using [ESPRESSO_TICKET_SELECTOR event_id=xxx] is that correct?

February 28, 2020 at 7:29 am

The Common Settings in Permalinks are set to appear as
http://westlondonteachingalliance.com/sample-post/ – It’s not a deal-breaker for the client if they are ‘ugly’.

Ok, but that’s not what I’m asking.

The shortlink you originally provided:

http://westlondonteachingalliance.com/?p=3144

Links to a trashed event, so it’s expected that wouldn’t work.

However, this link: http://westlondonteachingalliance.com/?p=3165

Which should be to a valid event, should not be returning 404, it should load the EE event. (If that event is still valid)

Summary: To get the clients courses up online – (ASAP) I am happy to populate every new event manually and take the shortlink, create a page and drop that code into the body of the page. I understand that it’s more labour intensive but at least the client request will be live.

You could, manually create pages and add the ticket selector shortcode above, then manually link to each of those yes.

However, that should not be needed.

If all of your events are going to be within EE they should automatically list on /events/ and when you click to view them, load as normal. They don’t on your site.

I understand that the only way to see the event is via the shortlink – repetitive, but as we use EE more – I am sure we will learn how to do this more effectively.

In short, that’s not how it is supposed to work and this isn’t about learning how to do this more effectively, something on your site is breaking the event links.

If you create a page with [ESPRESSO_EVENTS] on it, that will list all of your EE events, but again, they are going to link back to the single event page (which doesn’t work on your site) so pretty much every ‘default’ method used by EE4 wont work as it stands.

You didn’t answer this:

The output there is pretty much controlled by your theme, we hook in and add additional details to the_content by your theme needs to call it.

The site is using Divi, and your using a Divi Child theme, so do you have an archive.php or archive-espresso_events.php template file in your theme?

If you go to Event Espresso -> Events -> Templates.

Look for the ‘Events Slug’ option.

Set that to ee-events and save.

Now go to Dashboard -> Settings -> Permalinks again.

Does http://westlondonteachingalliance.com/ee-events/ then show your events, and if you click on the name for one, does it load the event?