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November 5, 2013 at 1:48 pm

Hi Matt,

At this time [ESPRESSO_EVENTS] pulls in all of the templates as it processes through the registration and payment pages. [EVENT_LIST] displays only the event list.

November 5, 2013 at 2:35 pm

Hi Matt,

It’s the page that processes the event steps. When you activate Event Espresso for the first time it adds it to one page, and that’s the page that handles everything from registration through payment. It’s used on only that one page. It’s not documented like the other shortcodes because it’s not optional, it doesn’t accept parameters, and is only used on one page.

November 5, 2013 at 4:07 pm

Hi Matt,

We don’t provide documentation for it because it’s not something that we recommend tinkering with and almost 90% of Event Espresso’s functionality on the front end of the website runs through that shortcode. It is used on the Main Registration page where people register for events. It’s required to be on the page that is set to be the Main Registration page, that’s the one place where it’s used. Without it on a page, Event Espresso doesn’t function.

I hope that clears things up. If not, what details are you looking to learn about the shortcode? Have you looked into the code?

November 6, 2013 at 2:01 am

Hi Matt,

1) Usually the hierarchy of the site generally should not matter. We create the pages as top-level but you can alter this to however you need.

The page you mention here which contains [raw]ESPRESSO_EVENTS[/raw] shortcode is actually outputting all the Events which have been created with Event Espresso (EE) but with in-line styling of display: none.

2) Yes, the core EE pages must be published and public in order for EE to work correctly.

3) Yes that is correct, Raw tags are not a part of EE and usually a theme ‘feature’.

4) Yes you can. But why not incorporate the page into the site? To expand on what Josh posted:

[ESPRESSO_EVENTS] is the core EE page which handles most of the functionality, by default it displays a list of all events (so in your case can be used as the ‘Programs – All Locations’ page) it is required but can still be used.

[EVENT_LIST] is there to allow you create the other customised event lists, lets say a list of events all in category ‘Chestnut Hill’, that could be [EVENT_LIST category_identifier=”chestnut_hill_identifier”] which will only display events within that category.

5) It needs to be publicly visible, but the users do not need to see it. As in it must be published and public but does NOT have to be included on any Nav Menus.

6) They have purposefully removed the list from that page, I’m guessing they did not like the layout of the list, as the current pages are very different from the default event list. They are currently using the espresso_table to display the events.

What I would do is fix the ‘Register for programs’ so it actually displayed the events. That page would contain the [ESPRESSO_EVENTS] shortcode & will display all the Events.

Create a child page ‘Chestnut Hill Programs’ of ‘Register for programs’
This page would contain [EVENT_LIST category_identifier=”chestnut_hill_identifier”]
This would then only display event from that category.

Finally another child page with [EVENT_LIST category_identifier=”center_city_identifier”]

This keeps all events easily accessible from the main page and each locations events can also be found within their respective pages, if you wish to add more locations just create more child pages with their own category.

Does that make sense?

November 8, 2013 at 2:46 am

Hi Neal,

Based on my understanding, we only need to have one page containing [ESPRESSO_EVENTS] and this has to be specified as the main registration page under Page Settings.

Yes that’s correct.

I also created another page containing [EVENT_LIST] which works fine.
http://www.jump-start.com/event-registration/

Unless you’ve changed the [ESPRESSO_EVENTS] page, that would be the default page. It looks like your custom event list page is:

http://www.jump-start.com/class-sign-up/

Is that not the case?

If you go to Event Espresso -> System Status. Then look under ‘Registration Pages’. Are the url’s for each page green?

Also if http://www.jump-start.com/event-registration/ is the [ESPRESSO_EVENTS] page in use, it is being served as a cached page.

<!-- Cached page generated by WP-Super-Cache on 2013-11-07 19:52:56 -->

You’ll need to exclude Event Espresso’s pages from caching in order for EE to work correctly. If you look under Event Espresso -> General Settings. Then page ‘Page Settings’.

You want the ‘Main registration page’, ‘Auto Return URL (Thank You and Return Payment page)’ & the ‘Notify URL’ pages set on the do not cache list.

By default these are ‘event-registration’, ‘thank-you’ & ‘transactions’ although you need to find the page slug for each if you have changed any. Then add these to WP-Super-Cache’s do not cache list.

This if from W3 Total Cache although it should be similar http://d.pr/i/MxBa

November 8, 2013 at 11:30 pm

Hi Tony –

My custom event list page is
http://www.jump-start.com/class-sign-up/

Main registration page (not really being used) where the code [ESPRESSO_EVENTS] is added is:
http://www.jump-start.com/event-registration/

However, when I click on REGISTER button from this page:
http://www.jump-start.com/class-sign-up/

It redirects to the main event registration page which is:
http://www.jump-start.com/event-registration/ but it only shows the shortcode [ESPRESSO_EVENTS]. So it doesn’t seem to be working or am I missing a step?

Yes, all the pages are in green under system settings.

Yes, I added the event-registration, transactions, thank-you under do not cache list.

This used to work before, by the way but we disabled the plugin for some time and re-enabled it.

THank you so much.

November 11, 2013 at 7:00 pm

Got it. I will send asap!

November 12, 2013 at 7:16 pm

Thank you very much, Tony. It seems to be working well now! Just need to set up the payment system. Thanks again.