The Question

Recently, a user asked why events were not showing up correctly in his breadcrumbs.

The Answer

Unless your breadcrumb code is checking for custom taxonomies, it’s not going to know what to do with events and venues. Most breadcrumb plugins use a mix of conditionals to determine what to show, and often custom taxonomies don’t make it into the mix. So, let’s fix that!

The Code

Here’s a code snippet you can drop in your functions.php file that uses the built-in conditionals to handle events and venues.

• You can use it verbatim just add tribe_breadcrumbs(); to your page template.
• Or if you use a theme framework, just add an action hook wherever you want the breadcrumbs to appear: add_action(‘hook_name’,'tribe_breadcrumbs’);

// Check if page is direct child
function is_child($page_id) {
    global $post;
    if( is_page() && ($post->post_parent != '') ) {
       return true;
    } else {
       return false;
    }
}

function tribe_breadcrumbs() {

	global $post;

	$seperator = " » ";
	echo '<a href="';
	echo get_option('home');
	echo '">';
	bloginfo('name');
	echo "</a>";

    if( tribe_is_month() && !is_tax() ) { // The Main Calendar Page

    	echo $seperator;
    	echo 'The Events Calendar';

    } elseif( tribe_is_month() && is_tax() ) { // Calendar Category Pages

			global $wp_query;
			$term_slug = $wp_query->query_vars['tribe_events_cat'];
			$term = get_term_by('slug', $term_slug, 'tribe_events_cat');
			get_term( $term_id, 'tribe_events_cat' );
			$name = $term->name;
			echo $seperator;
      echo '<a href="'.tribe_get_events_link().'">Events</a>';
      echo $seperator;
      echo $name;

		} elseif( tribe_is_event() && !tribe_is_day() && !is_single() ) { // The Main Events List

			echo $seperator;
      echo 'Events List';

		} elseif( tribe_is_event() && is_single() ) { // Single Events

			echo $seperator;
			echo '<a href="'.tribe_get_events_link().'">Events</a>';
			echo $seperator;
      the_title();

		} elseif( tribe_is_day() ) { // Single Event Days

			global $wp_query;
			echo $seperator;
			echo '<a href="'.tribe_get_events_link().'">Events</a>';
			echo $seperator;
			echo 'Events on: ' . date('F j, Y', strtotime($wp_query->query_vars['eventDate']));

		} elseif( tribe_is_venue() ) { // Single Venues

			echo $seperator;
      echo '<a href="'.tribe_get_events_link().'">Events</a>';
      echo $seperator;
      the_title();

		} elseif (is_category() || is_single()) {

			echo $seperator;
			the_category(' &bull; ');
			if (is_single()) {
				echo ' '.$seperator.' ';
				the_title();
			}

    } elseif (is_page()) {

    	if(is_child(get_the_ID())) {
    		echo $seperator;
    		echo '<a href="' . get_permalink($post->post_parent) . '">' . get_the_title($post->post_parent) . '</a>';
    		echo $seperator;
      	echo the_title();
    	} else {
    		echo $seperator;
      	echo the_title();
    	}

		} elseif (is_search()) {

      echo $seperator.'Search Results for... ';
			echo '"<em>';
			echo the_search_query();
			echo '</em>"';

    }

}

This code is based on the Thesis Breadcrumbs Without Plugins code.

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A quick overview of the plugin:

Event Tickets Pro allows users of Events Calendar Pro to directly sell tickets via WordPress using the power of the eventbrite API. No need to double enter data or visit multiple sites.

* Sell a wide variety of tickets: Free, Donation, Paid.
* Accept money via Paypal, Google Checkout, Credit Card, Check & Cash.
* Automatically create Eventbrite events without leaving WordPress.
* Integrates with ECP

FAQ

Do I need to buy ECP to use this?
Yes.

Can I use some other ticket platform other than Eventbrite?
Not with this plugin.

My puppy made me laugh, can I tell you about it?
Yes, and include a photo.

How can I get an Eventbrite Account?
Follow this link to set up an account.

Can I buy this plugin now?
Nope, but you can have it for free if you promise to give us feedback and be super nice when it breaks all your shit (this is an alpha after all).

What will you charge?
We are not sure yet, but most likely it will be around $99 USD, give or take $2,000 (translation, I have no clue). Since its free now, don’t worry about it.

Will you be supporting this plugin
The difference between our free and our premium plugins is that you get access to the latest features. We are not truly in the business of customer support. Code is offered on an as-is basis.

We read the support forums activly looking for legitimate bug reports. However, we do not offer any guarantees that this code won’t break something on your site. Any guidance that we offer is voluntary, so please be nice to us so we don’t have to pay ridiculously high therapy bills. If you really appreciate this plugin, please help other people on the forum.

You should hire a freelance developer if you are facing any problems with theme integration.

If you have a code contribution to this plugin, please post it to the forum. We’ll review it and integrate it if it makes sense (and maybe see if you’re available for contract work).

When will the official version one come out.
What a great question. We are super curious ourselves. But, we decided to do some alpha testing (good for everyone), and found some wacky bugs. And then we contracted a QA person, and he found some REALLY wacky bugs. So we figured, keep giving it away for free until it is a pretty stable product. We know that working with a rapidly changing platform (WP) and a fluid and evolving api (Eventbrite) means a moving target.

* Sell tickets directly from your post
* Extensive template tags for customization
* MU Compatible
* Many of the amazing features of Eventbrite – directly from WordPress
* Use shortcode to place any event ticketing on any post

New features for Release 1.6:

* Import event info from Eventbrite by event id number.
* Payment options now specified from post edit
* Improved error handling and reporting
* Updated to new Eventbrite logo

Over the next weeks, we will watch the forums and do a few small dot releases to fix bugs. Please don’t post requests for help here (I’ll ignore them), use the WordPress Forum.

This will be the last major open source release on this plugin for a short while. We are exploring the possibility of converting this to a premium plugin and will let you all know quite soon what we decide. Work on 1.7, which will be released as a premium plugin (custom post types and more) is under way.

To Download: The Events Plugin 1.6

Features

* Child Theme support
* iCal Feed of all events now accessible using http://<yourUrlHere>.com/?ical
* Setting to include / exclude events form general loop
* Subcategories in events now behave properly! (and include some css for your creative endeavors)
* Get Events function no longer starts its own loop (significantly reduce conflicts with other plugins)
* Added class to current day
* PHP versions older than 5.1 will fail gracefully
* Uninstall file
* Calendar grid view now honors ‘posts_per_page’ wordpress setting.
* Calendar grid view now has “previous” and “next” month links
* Widget now has options to control behavior when there are no events to display
* Updates to widget layout (links to events and “read more”)
* It is now possible to select no default country for events
* Added a setting to control “pretty urls” to the events vs using query args (reduce conflicts with other rewrite rules)
* Default times for new event updated (all day, starting tomorrow)

Translations

* German [Felix Bartels]
* Brazilian Portuguese [Thiago Abdalla]
* Dutch [Sjoerd Boerrigter]
* Spanish [Los Jethrov]
* Updates to Swedish Translation [Kaj Johansson]
* Updates to German Translation [Andre Schuhmann]
* Danish [Carsten Matzon]

Bugs

* Improvements to field validation
* Fixes Embedded Map HTML URL Encoding so its w3c compatible (Thanks azizur!)
* Usability issue: Is this post an event? Yes/No — now you can click the text and it will select your choice. (Thanks azizur!)
* Fixes drag/drop issue (Thanks azizur!)
* State vs Province meta values were not mutually exclusive
* HTML was not properly escaped in the template
* Fixes PHP short tag issue in one of the templates
* in single.php, the Back to Events link no longer strictly goes to the grid view, but adheres to the default few option -pointed out by azzatron on the forum
* google map link is now produced with minimal information, complete address is no longer needed, W3C-compatible output
** tec_event_address() added for easy echoing of the event address
** thanks to AntonLargiader and azizur on forum
* improvement and debugging of entire error catching and displaying system
* Fixes upcoming/past sorting issue (Thanks Elliot Silver for the support!)

Update: Thank you so much for all the nice emails and interest we have received. If you are looking for technical support, please read through the support forum and if you don’t find your answer create a new thread.

We have just open sourced two plugins and would love a review / thoughts for future directions, improvement and any wisdom on promoting an open source wordpress plugin.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/the-events-calendar/

The Events Calendar plugin enables you to rapidly create and manage events using the post editor. Features include optional Eventbrite integration, Google Maps integration as well as default templates such as a calendar grid and event list for streamlined one click installation.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/eventbrite-for-the-events-calendar/

Register attendees and gather money for your events. Eventbrite is FREE for no-charge events and takes a small commission for each ticket sold. This is the easiest and best way to manage your events and now it plugs directly into WordPress!!!

Eventbrite for The Events Calendar adds Eventbrite integration to The Events Calendar. This plugin depends on The Events Calendar and has no standalone functionality. Both plugins need to be activated in order for Eventbrite functionality to work.