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February 25, 2015 at 9:51 am

I would like to implement 2 or more different event list views.
For (this) example, say one to show a list of events in a category in the main content area, and in a sidebar show brief details of the next upcoming (single) event in a category.

So in the main content area and sidebar respectively I use:
[ESPRESSO_EVENTS category_identifier=”my-event-cat” sort=”DESC”]
and
[ESPRESSO_EVENTS category_identifier=”my-event-cat” sort=”DESC” limit=”1″]

The template content-espresso_events.php has been copied into the child theme twice and modified to give 2 views:
wp-content/themes/my-child-theme/content-espresso_events-list.php
and
wp-content/themes/my-child-theme/content-espresso_events-next.php

These I can load from the events template file, wp-content/themes/my-child-theme/loop-espresso_events.php, using

espresso_get_template_part( ‘content’, ‘espresso_events-list’ );
and
espresso_get_template_part( ‘content’, ‘espresso_events-latest’ );

All ok so far. My question is how can I determine which to load? How can I determine when loop-espresso_events.php is running in the main content area and when running in the sidebar? Or perhaps I should be having multiple versions of loop-espresso_events.php instead and ‘splitting further up the chain’

I’d like to have available such functions such as “is_sidebar()” or “template_name()”.

Forgive my terminology, I’ve been a Windows developer my working life and not yet devoted the time to really understanding WordPress development inside out – I appreciate this is probably a WordPress Development issue rather than EE4 specifically.

Many thanks