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MikeK
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March 25, 2016 at 12:38 pm
This would be for a website for a coalition of theaters.
Each theater would need a dedicated calendar (26 in total), to display on a page dedicated to that theater. This I assume is easy, yes?
The home page is more interesting.
– At any given time, there are up to 12 shows in production.
– The home page needs a section to automatically display those in-production shows, with an image, show title, town it’s in, a read more link and a buy now link. We envision 4 rows with 3 shows in each row.
– As a show goes “out of production,” it should automatically come off the home page; as a show comes into production, it should get added, automatically.
– Display or not display cannot be by category (not, for example, by checking a “now playing” category), but by event start and end dates
I have no idea if this has been done or is possible, can you advise?
Thanks.
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Tony
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March 29, 2016 at 4:06 am
Hi Mike,
Each theater would need a dedicated calendar (26 in total), to display on a page dedicated to that theater. This I assume is easy, yes?
Are you referring to the EE4 events calendar?
If so then yes that should be simple enough.
Create a page for each individual theater and add the [ESPRESSO_CALENDAR category_slug=theater-slug] shortcode to each page. The events for each theater would need to be added to a category for the calendar to pull the correct events.
I have no idea if this has been done or is possible, can you advise?
When you create an event within EE4 you set you create a ‘datetime’ within the event, that is the instance of that event (you can actually have multiple different datetimes)
So you can set your event start/end date/times within a single datetime.
If the start date is set to a date after the current date, the event is ‘Upcoming’.
If the current date is between the start date and end date, the event is ‘Active’.
Finally if both the start and end date have passed then the event has ‘expired’.
So I’m assuming your ‘in production’ events would be the upcoming events? (Note that ‘Active’ events are events happening right now)
If so then the default behaiour for EE does what you are requesting. Upcoming and active events are listed by date, as a event becomes expired it is no longer displayed.
The home page needs a section to automatically display those in-production shows, with an image, show title, town it’s in, a read more link and a buy now link. We envision 4 rows with 3 shows in each row.
This will likely need some custom development depending on your theme and exactly how you want the events to look.
Are you comfortable with WordPress theme templates?
Have you tried signing up to Test Drive Event Espresso 4? There you can demo the full plugin, create events and see how EE works.
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