Events calendar with Cardinal – how to display sidebars

[FlawlessWeb]

Hey,

I am hoping you can help with this as Cardinal is listed as supporting the Events Calendar plugin…

I am using Events Calendar + Events Calendar Pro. For the most part it works well, but it makes it very hard to achieve one thing – enabling sidebars. The plugin does not use shortcodes like 99% of other authors and as such, its not as simple as placing a shortcode on a new page and then selecting the sidebar options in Cardinals meta box.

In the template settings of the plugin you can choose from a dropdown of templates – these include “default page template”, “Blank – Header | No Footer” etc. None of the options outputs a sidebar.

Would it be possible to add a few more Cardinal templates to that dropdown list – i.e. Left sidebar, right sidebar and both sidebars. That should then display sidebars on the front end with Events Calendar…

Thanks.

[Rui Guerreiro – SUPPORT]

Hi,

Will have to forward this one to Ed.
Thanks.

-Rui

[FlawlessWeb]

Ok thanks.

[Rui Guerreiro – SUPPORT]

No problem.
-Rui

[Swift Ideas – Ed]

Hi Anthony,

Do you mean for the events listing/archive page, or the detail page for each event?

– Ed

[FlawlessWeb]

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[Swift Ideas – Ed]

Hi Anthony,

I’ll get the meta boxes added for the events post type, that will allow you to set sidebars for the venue/events.

As for the /events page, it’s a little trickier than just providing templates with the sidebar setup as standard. The issue in then how to be able to set which sidebar to use..

– Ed

[FlawlessWeb]

Hi Ed,

Yea I was thinking that.

Maybe create a sidebar (and label it as such) just for the events plugin – you already created one of those for WooCommerce, Crowdfunding etc…

[Swift Ideas – Ed]

Hmm ok. So could have left + right sidebar for events. Then would need a left + right sidebar template. Would that be sufficient?

– Ed

[FlawlessWeb]

Hi Ed,

In my current use case scenario that would be perfect. For future projects, would that allow me to enable a left and right sidebar (so both sidebars) at the same time if required?

Thanks

Edit: let me know if you want me to send you on the latest version of Events Calendar Pro for testing.

[Swift Ideas – Ed]

You need a left, right, and both sidebar template?

– Ed

[FlawlessWeb]

That would be the optimal solution long term.

That would essentially mirror what you can do on a standard WordPress page with Cardinal…

[Kyle – SUPPORT]

Ok thanks

[Swift Ideas – Ed]

Working on that today.

– Ed

[FlawlessWeb]

Great, thanks.

Let me know if you want a copy of the latest version of Events Calendar Pro.