[Closed] WPTypes & Date – showing events in calendar

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[pawelS]

Dear All,

Hey! I've got an issue with Types. I've added an custom field date to each post (category: events). Displaying it new query works fine. But how to show a calendar with highlighted days of specific events? this is my code:

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it is possible to achieve such sollution? after clicking on specifc day of event it would go directly to the event post.

thank you

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Yes you can achieve this by custom coding or via 3rd party calendar plugin (which support integrating your custom code on calendar days).

The general idea is as below:

1. Populate calendar: Via custom code by populating days, weeks and months or via a 3rd party calendar plugin to display a real calendar

2. Iterate through each day and finding the matches for events falling on that date: Via custom query on your custom posts based on custom field's values. If you are using a 3rd party plugin for calendar, you must find such a plugin, which offers some hooks/filters (or short codes) to interfere with calendar items (dates) and manipulate accordingly.

3. Link each matching date with a post type template: So when user clicks on an available date, you can take user to list of events (or event details) page.

The whole solution, requires lot of custom coding and efforts involved, but in short it's a doable solution.

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