Latest News Widget + Meta Tag

Thank you for the quick answer cg! Since there is already a few posts i would like to find a different solution than an event plugin.
Do you have any idea on how the code for embedding the custom field could look like?

Regards,
Jan

Hi cg,

thank you very much for the guideline, your the men! Since I am personally not smart enough to code, I sadly cant follow all of the steps . After one eternity I found the code, but its verrrry long and i have now idea what to do and where.

Could someone from the enfold team maybe help out?

I really appreciate your help cg but i understand you have a familie and cant hold hand with me here ;)
This is the code i found:

if (!class_exists(‘avia_newsbox’)) { class avia_newsbox extends WP_Widget { var $avia_term = ”; var $avia_post_type = ”; var $avia_new_query = ”; function __construct() { $widget_ops = array(‘classname’ => ‘newsbox’, ‘description’ => __(‘A Sidebar widget to display latest post entries in your sidebar’, ‘avia_framework’) ); parent::__construct( ‘newsbox’, THEMENAME.’ Latest News’, $widget_ops ); } function widget($args, $instance) { global $avia_config; extract($args, EXTR_SKIP); echo $before_widget; $title = empty($instance[‘title’]) ? ” : apply_filters(‘widget_title’, $instance[‘title’]); $count = empty($instance[‘count’]) ? ” : $instance[‘count’]; $cat = empty($instance[‘cat’]) ? ” : $instance[‘cat’]; $excerpt = empty($instance[‘excerpt’]) ? ” : $instance[‘excerpt’]; $image_size = isset($avia_config[‘widget_image_size’]) ? $avia_config[‘widget_image_size’] : ‘widget’; if ( !empty( $title ) ) { echo $before_title . $title . $after_title; }; if(empty($this->avia_term)) { $additional_loop = new WP_Query(“cat=”.$cat.”&posts_per_page=”.$count); } else { $catarray = explode(‘,’, $cat); if(empty($catarray[0])) { $new_query = array(“posts_per_page”=>$count,”post_type”=>$this->avia_post_type); } else { if($this->avia_new_query) { $new_query = $this->avia_new_query; } else { $new_query = array( “posts_per_page”=>$count, ‘tax_query’ => array( array( ‘taxonomy’ => $this->avia_term, ‘field’ => ‘id’, ‘terms’ => explode(‘,’, $cat), ‘operator’ => ‘IN’) ) ); } } $additional_loop = new WP_Query($new_query); } if($additional_loop->have_posts()) : echo ‘<ul class=”news-wrap image_size_’.$image_size.'”>’; while ($additional_loop->have_posts()) : $additional_loop->the_post(); $format = “”; if(empty($this->avia_post_type)) $format = $this->avia_post_type; if(empty($format)) $format = get_post_format(); if(empty($format)) $format = ‘standard’; $the_id = get_the_ID(); $link = get_post_meta( $the_id ,’_portfolio_custom_link’, true) != “” ? get_post_meta( $the_id ,’_portfolio_custom_link_url’, true) : get_permalink(); echo ‘<li class=”news-content post-format-‘.$format.'”>’; //check for preview images: $image = “”; if(!current_theme_supports(‘force-post-thumbnails-in-widget’)) { $slides = avia_post_meta(get_the_ID(), ‘slideshow’, true); if( $slides != “” && !empty( $slides[0][‘slideshow_image’] ) ) { $image = avia_image_by_id($slides[0][‘slideshow_image’], $image_size, ‘image’); } } if(current_theme_supports( ‘post-thumbnails’ ) && !$image ) { $image = get_the_post_thumbnail( $the_id, $image_size ); } $time_format = apply_filters( ‘avia_widget_time’, get_option(‘date_format’).” – “.get_option(‘time_format’), ‘avia_newsbox’ ); echo ““; $nothumb = (!$image) ? ‘no-news-thumb’ : ”; echo “<span class=’news-thumb $nothumb’>”; echo $image; echo “</span>”; if(empty($avia_config[‘widget_image_size’]) || ‘display title and excerpt’ != $excerpt) { echo “<strong class=’news-headline’>”.get_the_title(); if($time_format) { echo “<span class=’news-time’>”.get_the_time($time_format).”</span>”; } echo ““; } echo ““; if( ‘display title and excerpt’ == $excerpt ) { echo “<div class=’news-excerpt’>”; if(!empty($avia_config[‘widget_image_size’])) { echo ““; echo “<strong class=’news-headline’>”.get_the_title().”“; echo ““; if($time_format) { echo “<span class=’news-time’>”.get_the_time($time_format).”</span>”; } } the_excerpt(); echo “</div>”; } echo ‘‘; endwhile; echo ““; wp_reset_postdata(); endif; echo $after_widget; } function update($new_instance, $old_instance) { $instance = $old_instance; $instance[‘title’] = strip_tags($new_instance[‘title’]); $instance[‘count’] = strip_tags($new_instance[‘count’]); $instance[‘excerpt’] = strip_tags($new_instance[‘excerpt’]); $instance[‘cat’] = implode(‘,’,$new_instance[‘cat’]); return $instance; } function form($instance) { $instance = wp_parse_args( (array) $instance, array( ‘title’ => ”, ‘count’ => ”, ‘cat’ => ”, ‘excerpt’=>” ) ); $title = strip_tags($instance[‘title’]); $count = strip_tags($instance[‘count’]); $excerpt = strip_tags($instance[‘excerpt’]); $elementCat = array(“name” => __(“Which categories should be used for the portfolio?”, ‘avia_framework’), “desc” => __(“You can select multiple categories here”, ‘avia_framework’), “id” => $this->get_field_name(‘cat’).”[]”, “type” => “select”, “std” => strip_tags($instance[‘cat’]), “class” => “”, “multiple”=>6, “subtype” => “cat”); //check if a different taxonomy than the default is set if(!empty($this->avia_term)) { $elementCat[‘taxonomy’] = $this->avia_term; } $html = new avia_htmlhelper(); ?> <p><label for=”<?php echo $this->get_field_id(‘title’); ?>”><?php _e(‘Title:’, ‘avia_framework’); ?> <input class=”widefat” id=”<?php echo $this->get_field_id(‘title’); ?>” name=”<?php echo $this->get_field_name(‘title’); ?>” type=”text” value=”<?php echo esc_attr($title); ?>” /></label></p> <p> <label for=”<?php echo $this->get_field_id(‘count’); ?>”><?php _e(‘How many entries do you want to display: ‘, ‘avia_framework’); ?></label> <select class=”widefat” id=”<?php echo $this->get_field_id(‘count’); ?>” name=”<?php echo $this->get_field_name(‘count’); ?>”> <?php $list = “”; for ($i = 1; $i <= 20; $i++ ) { $selected = “”; if($count == $i) $selected = ‘selected=”selected”‘; $list .= “<option $selected value=’$i’>$i</option>”; } $list .= “</select>”; echo $list; ?> </p> <p><label for=”<?php echo $this->get_field_id(‘cat’); ?>”><?php _e(‘Choose the categories you want to display (multiple selection possible):’, ‘avia_framework’); ?> <?php echo $html->select($elementCat); ?> </label></p> <p> <label for=”<?php echo $this->get_field_id(‘excerpt’); ?>”><?php _e(‘Display title only or title & excerpt’, ‘avia_framework’); ?></label> <select class=”widefat” id=”<?php echo $this->get_field_id(‘excerpt’); ?>” name=”<?php echo $this->get_field_name(‘excerpt’); ?>”> <?php $list = “”; $answers = array( ‘show title only’ => __( ‘show title only’, ‘avia_framework’ ), ‘display title and excerpt’ => __(‘display title and excerpt’, ‘avia_framework’) ); foreach ( $answers as $key => $answer ) { $selected = “”; if( $key == $excerpt ) $selected = ‘selected=”selected”‘; $list .= “<option $selected value=’$key’>$answer</option>”; } $list .= “</select>”; echo $list; ?> </p> <?php } } }

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Hi Nikko,

No problem, totally understand that! You can find the code here: https://pastebin.com/FKgGPtTK
I am guessing it is an easy fix if ones knows what he is doing, sadly i don´t! :@

Would be a little christmas miracle if you could do this for me!

Thank you so much!
Jan

Hi Vinay,

I did exactly what you told me, this is the code I get:

[av_sidebar widget_area='Sidebar Pages' av_uid='av-14hvt']
[av_button label='Next events' link='manually,https://frankfurt.agbc.org/events/' link_target='' size='large' position='center' label_display='' icon_select='yes' icon='ue80b' font='entypo-fontello' color='theme-color' custom_bg='#444444' custom_font='#ffffff' av_uid='av-jonbc5vm' admin_preview_bg='']

The meta key is event_date. Could you tell me what to do with it exactly and where to place it?
Thank you so much and happy new year!
Jan

Hi Nikko,

pure awesomeness, you guys rock! Thank you so much!
You can close the topic, it worked perfectly.

Regards,
Jan