Allow doaction.org URLs for events

[dd32]

This PR (is untested) is intended to allow saving of doaction.org URL formats for Events.

This is not an ideal PR, as it's hacky in nature, as the existing post type infrastructure really assumes that the only events are going to be ones hosted by the networks, and doesn't really fully support externally hosted sites for new sites.

This PR simply avoids some of the UI for such urls, and allows it to be saved.

I'm sure this could be more tightly integrated with a proper url validation and whatnot, but this might be enough until the question of "what to do with doaction.org" is resolved.

Fixes #1335

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[dorsvenabili]

Thank you for fixing this issue, Dion!

I'm wondering, will this fix allow Do_Action events to be shown in events.wordpress.org? Because we need that.

Let me know and I'll open another issue if needed, thanks! :)

[dorsvenabili]

Hi @dd32, any updates about if we can already add Do_Action URLs to the WordCamp CPT's sites field?
Thanks!

[pkevan]

I'm wondering, will this fix allow Do_Action events to be shown in events.wordpress.org? Because we need that.

Just looking at this, and it's populated from a different database table wporg_events which isn't part of this codebase so we'll need to look at that separately.

[pkevan]

👍 think it will do as a hack, but we should monitor as to what doesn't flow through as a result of allowing the URLs.

[dorsvenabili]

Thank you, Paul! :)

we should monitor as to what doesn't flow through as a result of allowing the URLs

We'll monitor it and we'll report here any issues related to this new change.

Thanks!

[pkevan]

Luckily I tested and found the error in 1a51043

[devinmaeztri]

Hello, Team! I tried to add the URL of Port Harcourt do_action and failed. Here is the notification that appears.

https://central.wordcamp.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=6475854&action=edit

[devinmaeztri]

I just noticed that the event status has been updated to Scheduled but URL is not saved.

[devinmaeztri]

I also found Port Harcourt do_action on Past WordCamps page. I looked on events.wordpress.org but it seems that past events are not available on the events page.

[pkevan]

Hello, Team! I tried to add the URL of Port Harcourt do_action and failed.

This is an open PR so no code changes have been made yet, so this is expected.

[pkevan]

I also found Port Harcourt do_action on Past WordCamps page. I looked on events.wordpress.org but it seems that past events are not available on the events page.

see: #1350 (comment)

[devinmaeztri]

Noted! Thanks, Paul! I've update do_action Mumbai and it behaved similar to do_action Port Harcourt. I will update do_action Evanston and do_action Ahmedabad once the organizer completes the required fields.

[renintw]

Tested locally and it looks good. A validation is added to we_host_it to fix the error prompt.

I'm wondering, will this fix allow Do_Action events to be shown in events.wordpress.org? Because we need that.

I'll work on this in a separate ticket.