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The Eventbrite API plugin brings the power of Eventbrite to WordPress, for both users and developers.
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Why is there no Shortcode? #57

Closed Quigley-Brendan closed 7 years ago

Quigley-Brendan commented 7 years ago

I have so many whys about this plugin. Likely I missed something so here is the question.

Why is this a page template and not a shortcode?

This is virtually unusable with my theme. While asking the theme makers to make the theme Eventbrite optimized is a nice idea, it'll never happen before I need to go live.

I'm going to end up manually linking to all of the events. What am I missing?

karneaud commented 7 years ago

+1

kwight commented 7 years ago

The intention of the plugin was to give theme developers a set of tools for easily integrating Eventbrite into their theme; by standardizing markup with the Underscores theme, it also allowed the plugin to often work out-of-the-box with many themes (or be quickly adapted for those needing further tweaking). Implementing this functionality through a shortcode could be done, but I imagine it would be frustrating dealing with things like API call handling and pagination in a shortcode (and you would still have the same issues with mismatched markup or styling).

If all you want is a shortcode, then you're better to use Eventbrite's own widgets. Again, you'll be stuck with their styling and branding, but they work well for non-customizable display of their content.