Hello there,
I am pretty heavily invested in the Events Made Easy plugin by Franky Van Liedekerke. I’ve used it on all of my websites that maintain events for years and am pretty comfortable with getting it to do what I want it to do. That being said, however, I just started to try to get it to integrate with Pro’s Layout Builder and I’m not getting anywhere.
First, let me explain what I’m trying to do. The plugin creates a url for each event, but the page created is not a “page” or a “post,” but is something different. Ideally, I’d like to be able to build a template for each individual event page using the Layout Builder, but I can’t figure out how to assign a layout to an event, since it isn’t a custom post type and therefore it doesn’t show up in the “Assign” list.
Does anyone have any guidance for me on how I might be able to assign a layout to whatever kind of object this plugin creates for its events?
UPDATE
So, apparently, this plugin uses a page to render the data in the database. Here’s a quote from his documentation:
Upon first activation of the plugin, a new wordpress page is created (typically called “Events”). That page is very special. Don’t change it, don’t use it in your menu’s, don’t delete it. Just make sure the EME setting called “Events page” points to this page. EME uses this page to render any and all event or location info, bookings, maps, …. anything. So again: don’t touch it, don’t use it in your menu’s, don’t delete it .
To render events (after creating events in the EME admin section, see next chapter), just create normal regular WordPress pages and use any available EME shortcode (see other part of this doc for all available shortcodes with their options and examples) to render events, locations, … any way you like it.
To be clear: events are not posts, the “special” events page defined in the settings is used to render events and everything else. The reason for this page is to have a link that can be sent for e.g. payments (I need a page to show …) or single events, etc …
So, does this mean then that I’m not going to be able to use the layout builder for this plugin?