Adding a category assigned thumbnail to the list view

[wowweedesign]

Hi,

Love this plugin, thank you so much for making it!

I was wondering, how would I go about adding a category assigned thumbnail to the post previews in the list view section?

Also, is it possible to create a ‘sort’ type of feature where I could add the categories that I’ve created onto a submenu on the left hand side of the page, so that when they clicked the menu property (e.g. yoursite.com/events/mediareleases/) they would only see media releases and no other types of event posts?

Thank you and sorry if I’m not explaining myself very well (I’m a designer not a developer ;))

[Barry]

I’m not 100% sure about adding a category assigned thumbnail … do you mean you want a specific thumbnail or featured image to show for each category?

If so I’d imagine that’s possible but would probably require a little custom coding and it isn’t something we can help too much with, I’m afraid.

You can definitely create a custom menu of event categories though, which may solve the second part of your question – simply by adding event categories to a menu through the Appearance > Menus screen (you can then assign the menu to a menu widget or else add it programmatically from within one of your templates).

Hope that helps!

[wowweedesign]

Hi Barry,

Thank you so much for your reply, it helped alot!
I managed to get it into the submenus and the header menu.

I’m having a slight problem though (not related to the above).

How can I set the category ID as the title on a page?
For example, I’ve clicked ‘media releases’ in the side menu to only show media releases.
How can I get the text ‘Media Releases’ to show on the page as a heading?

[Barry]

It should be there – you should see something like Upcoming Events › Test or Calendar of Events › Test (depending on your settings).

[wowweedesign]

Hi Barry,
Sorry I actually meant something like printing out a heading tag that has the title of the page printed.

For example I’m in Upcoming events > Conferences > Help the needy conference

When I click the page I need it to just print out “help the needy conference” as a heading tag on the page.

Thank you!

[Barry]

OK, well you can use WordPress’s single_cat_title() template tag to print out the category name – you may also be interested in our Themer’s Guide and template overrides tutorial:

https://theeventscalendar.com/support/documentation/events-calendar-themers-guide/
https://theeventscalendar.com/what-are-template-overrides-and-how-do-i-do-them/

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