MEC Event Data using Dynamic Content (DC)

[rkaramchedu]

Hello – I have seen a few earlier posts around this topic, but some questions still remain unanswered. The posts I have seen so far are:

Looper Query String: Featured Products

@bobbybosler, no problem…happy to help. For a little more context on how I got that result, you might find this helpful if you need to create additional complex queries in the future… First, you’ll need a PHP environment to work in. If you’re developing locally, you can just throw any of this in your child theme’s functions.php file to ultimately get some output to work with. Start by writing out a query using the standard WP_Query syntax like so: $tax_query[] = array( 'taxo…

MEC Events Looper Questions

Hello @santosfel5, 1.) You are using the incorrect dynamic content for the dates. You should be using: {{dc:post:meta key="mec_start_date" type="date" format="d"}} 2.) Yes, the display is correct. You just need to add a condition that the event will only be displayed if the MEC Start Date is after the date of today, {{dc:post:meta key="mec_start_date"}} after current date. [Screen Shot 2021-10-23 at 8.23.11 AM] Please check out the secure note for the test page.

MEC Looper Order

Hello Jen, Your WP Query is not entirely correct. If you follow the detailed explanation of @Kory on this thread (Looper Query String: Featured Products), you should be having something like this: $meta_query[] = array( 'key' => 'mec_start_date', 'value' => date('Ymd'), 'compare' => '>=', ); $tax_query[] = array( 'taxonomy' => 'mec_category', 'terms' => 'take-action', ); $query = array( 'post_type' => 'mec-events', 'tax_query' => $tax_query, 'meta_ke…

Displaying MEC Events in Looper by a Specific MEC Tag

I’m attempting to display MEC Events in a looper by a specific tag. The tag is Career Services. Here is a picture displaying the looper I’m trying to get to display events. [Screen Shot 2021-12-10 at 3.08.29 PM] This is the query I created to pull the MEC events tagged with Career Services: post_type=mec-events&tax_query%5B0%5D%5Btaxonomy%5D=post_tag&tax_query%5B0%5D%5Bfield%5D=slug&tax_query%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=career-services It was generated from this WP_Query: $args = array( 'post_ty…

I have a working query that returns a set of mec-events. For each post, I am trying to retrieve
a) Location Name – so far, using {{dc:post:meta key="mec_location_id"}}, I can get the location id, but I am looking for location name. Each event has a different location, so I can’t hard code location id. Any ideas? (In other words, I want to display the location name for each event returned by the query).

b) If the event start time is at the top of the hr (e.g. 10:00), then the DC {{dc:post:meta key="mec_start_time_minutes" type="date" format="i"}} returns the CURRENT minutes, not the event start time in minutes. If I leave out the format, then it’ll just return a 0. I am looking to display minutes as “00”. Any thoughts how I can get there?

Appreciate all the help in advance!

[christian]

Hey Rajeev,

Unfortunately, there is no way to get the Location Name out of the box, and there’s no solution for the MEC time formatting. Both would require custom development to fix or work with so we cannot handle that as part of theme support.

If you need custom development help, you might want to have our Elite team do the work for you. You can check our Elite service here: https://elite.theme.co/

Thank you for understanding.