Modern Event Calendars Single and Archive layouts support

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#1

Hi,

I’ve been looking forward to support for custom MEC layouts for literally years… I’m excited to see this moving forward.

Today I tried to get an archive page working — I’d previously gotten a looper to work with this solution (making sure to return results for all the upcoming+recurring events):

… but now it seems that it severely bogs down the server. And none of the other query-string based answers I found in the Forum provide complete results.

I did find something promising in the Webnus documentation:

…thinking that I might be able to use one of these to generate a custom query function…

$upcoming_events = MEC_main::get_upcoming_events(20); // 20 is number of events
$events = MEC_main::get_shortcode_events(6380); // 6380 is the shortcode ID

…like this?

add_filter(‘cs_looper_custom_mymecevents’, function ($upcoming_events) {
$upcoming_events = MEC_main::get_upcoming_events(20);
return $upcoming_events;
});

…but so far, no luck. Any thoughts?

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#2

I’d very very curious for more info on this? Maybe a tutorial for Josh on what is possible with the new layouts integration with MEC?

#3

For that custom looper you sent me. Since the keys of that output are the “date”. I would use “Loop Keys”. That way when you use {{dc:looper:index}}, it will give you the date like “2025-01-23”.

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Since the data is an array of events you need to double loop after your custom looper.

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Then with the beautiful Looper field UI you’ll see all the MEC fields. There is a bug here where it can’t grab keys of an object that I need to fix here though in Beta2

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Appreciate the thoughts and thanks for testing. If there is enough support we can add even more features to our MEC integration in a future release.

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