Comments on: Events Manager Plugin – Hack to display events by categories

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:42:54 +0000

Answered my own question. With WordPress 3.1, you’re able to pass an array of taxonomy names to wp_tag_cloud. So to have regular post tags and Events Manager tags, do: array(‘event-tags’, ‘post_tag’), ‘number’=>200, ‘unit’=>’px’, ‘smallest’=>9, ‘largest’=>36)); ?>

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:58:46 +0000

Nice stuff, thanks. Any idea how this could be done to display a list of event tags, or a tag cloud for event tags?

By: Marty Martin

Marty Martin — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 13:51:13 +0000

For anyone who is interested, there’s a new premium event management plugin available. It looks pretty promising, check it out- http://mear.is/espresso

By: Nicole

Nicole — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:07:07 +0000

I made some changes that allow you to add category to the shortcode:
[dbem_events_by_category category=1]

And it shows "future" events (note the $scope variable).

Here's the code from above modified:
define('DBEM_EVENTS_TBNAME', 'dbem_events'); function dbem_display_categories($atts) { global $wpdb; extract(shortcode_atts(array( 'category' => 'category', ), $atts));


    $categories_table = $wpdb->prefix.DBEM_CATEGORIES_TBNAME;

    $events_table = $wpdb->prefix.DBEM_EVENTS_TBNAME; 
$timestamp = time ();

$date_time_array = getdate ( $timestamp );

$hours = $date_time_array ['hours'];

$minutes = $date_time_array ['minutes'];

$seconds = $date_time_array ['seconds'];

$month = $date_time_array ['mon'];

$day = $date_time_array ['mday'];

$year = $date_time_array ['year'];

$today = strftime ( '%Y-%m-%d', mktime ( $hours, $minutes, $seconds, $month, $day, $year ) ); 
$scope = "(event_start_date >= '$today' OR (event_end_date >= '$today' AND event_end_date != '0000-00-00' AND event_end_date IS NOT NULL))";

    $sql_categories = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM $categories_table WHERE category_id=$category ORDER BY category_id");

    while($category = mysql_fetch_assoc($sql_categories)) {

        extract($category);

        $events = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM $events_table WHERE event_category_id = '".mysql_real_escape_string($category_id)."' AND $scope ORDER BY event_start_date ASC");

        $category_list .= "
";

        $category_list .= "";

$num_rows = mysql_num_rows($events);

if ($num_rows==0) {

$category_list .= "No events coming up.";

} else {

while($event = mysql_fetch_assoc($events)) {

extract($event);

$start_date = date('F j',strtotime($event_start_date));

$end_date = date('F j Y',strtotime($event_end_date));

$category_list .= "$start_date $event_name

";

}

}

$category_list .= "
";

echo $category_list; } } add_shortcode('dbem_events_by_category', 'dbem_display_categories');
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By: mtboston

mtboston — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:23:55 +0000

This is great! but I have the same issues as some of the above!
1. how do i show only one category
2. show only future events

thanks for ANY HELP!

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 20 May 2010 17:01:33 +0000

Hi guys – back again.
Anyone worked out how to display events based on custom attributes? For example, if I have a custom attribute of "lights off" and a value of "yes" stored for that attribute, how can I use the [events_list] shortcode to only show events where the attribute is "yes" ? Any takers?

By: Carey

Carey — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:59:24 +0000

I'm wondering if there is a way to add the scope for "future" events, because what I get right now is ALL events. I tried using this: [events_list limit=50 category=2 scope=future]
but, it did not work…

By: Michiko Wendel

Michiko Wendel — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 06:41:40 +0000

That was brilliant.

By: croakingtoad

croakingtoad — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:49:37 +0000

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By: @mikeyleung

@mikeyleung — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:11:42 +0000

Note that the [events_list] shortcode must be in small caps.