Castlegate IT WP Events

An events management plugin for WordPress. Installing and activating the plugin will create an event post type, which is available to users in the WordPress admin panel. The plugin uses Advanced Custom Fields to provide relevant fields for event dates, times, locations, and prices.

Events

The plugin creates an event post type, which is managed via the WordPress admin panel. By default, the main archive for events can be viewed at /?post_type=event, but this will depend on your permalink settings. Events can have categories and tags, depending on the interface settings (see below). Custom fields for the event details use Custom Meta Boxes.

Interface settings

The Events Settings menu, which appears within the main Settings menu, lets you enable or disable various standard WordPress fields for the event post type, including the content editor, excerpt, featured image, etc.

Filters

• cgit_wp_events_options: override the post type features and category taxonomy (this will disable the options on the plugin settings page)
• cgit_wp_events_format_day: format for days in the calendar
• cgit_wp_events_class_prefix: class name prefix for the events calendar
• cgit_wp_events_format_current_month: format for the current month in the calendar
• cgit_wp_events_format_next_year: next year calendar text
• cgit_wp_events_format_prev_year: previous year calendar text
• cgit_wp_events_format_next_month: next month calendar text
• cgit_wp_events_format_prev_month: previous month calendar text
• cgit_wp_events_date_range_formats: array of date formats used by the cgit_wp_events_get_event_date_range function
• cgit_wp_events_time_format: time format used by the cgit_wp_events_get_event_time_range function
• cgit_wp_events_dash: dash or separator used by the date and time range functions

Examples

Override default post type and taxonomy options (and disable options GUI):

add_filter('cgit_wp_events_options', function ($options) {
    return [
        'category' => true,
        'editor' => true,
        'excerpt' => true,
        'author' => true,
        'thumbnail' => true,
        'comments' => false,
        'page-attributes' => false,
    ];
});

Override date and time range formats:

add_filter('cgit_wp_events_dash', function ($dash) {
    return ' to '; // replace dash with text
});

add_filter('cgit_wp_events_date_range_formats', function ($formats) {
    return [
        'y' => 'Y',         // year only
        'm' => 'F',         // month only
        'd' => 'j',         // day only
        'dm' => 'j F',      // day and month
        'my' => 'F Y',      // month and year
        'dmy' => 'j F Y',   // day, month, and year
    ];
});

add_filter('cgit_wp_events_get_event_time_range', function ($format) {
    return 'H:i'; // time format
});

Functions

Calendar

The plugin provides the cgit_wp_events_calendar() function to return the full HTML events calendar. The necessary JavaScript will be enqueued automatically for the next and previous links.

Archives

To display a list of links to archive pages, you may use the cgit_wp_events_archive() function. The function returns a formatted array containing all the information required to generate archive lists:

array(1) {
    [2016]=> array(2) {
        ["03"]=> array(3) {
            ["date"]=> object(DateTime)
            ["link"]=> string(15) "/event/2016/03/"
            ["count"]=> int(1)
        }
        ["04"]=> array(3) {
            ["date"]=> object(DateTime)
            ["link"]=> string(15) "/event/2016/04/"
            ["count"]=> int(1)
        }
    }
}

Example list generation:

<?php foreach (cgit_wp_events_archive() as $years => $months) : ?>
    <h3><?=$years?></h3>
    <ul>
        <?php foreach ($months as $month) : ?>
            <li>
                <a href="<?=$month['link']?>">
                    <?=$month['date']->format('F Y')?>
                    (<?=$month['count']?>)
                </a>
            </li>
        <?php endforeach ?>
    </ul>
<?php endforeach ?>

Note: Event counts include the number of events running within a given month, therefore you cannot total this count to display a count per year.

Date and time ranges

• cgit_wp_events_get_event_date_range(int $event_id = null): ?string returns a date range for the specified event (or the current event if none is specified).
• cgit_wp_events_get_event_time_range(int $event_id = null): ?string returns a time range for the specified event (or the current event if none is specified).

Widget

If your theme supports widgets, the events calendar can also be added as a widget.

Maps

Each event has a location field which by default uses the ACF Google Map field. However if the ACF Open Street Map plugin is detected, this is used instead.

License

Released under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.