Adding a category for an event

[Kerry]

We are a school of yoga and our website developer used Events to create a section for our teachers directory. They built Level I and Level II categories so that users can search for just Level I’s or II’s if they want to. We have just created a Level III certification for our teachers and I need to add a “category.” I have searched the dashboard high and low and can’t find where to do make this change. Any help is appreciated!

[Caroline]

Hi Kerry,

Thanks for reaching out! When viewing your WordPress site’s admin, you’ll find the Event Categories section located underneath Events in your WordPress sidebar:

Simply click this link, and you’ll be brought to the Event Categories section, where you can view and edit existing categories or add new categories as desired. 🙂

I hope that helps! Thanks again, and let us know if you should have any other questions!

[Kerry]

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Thanks for getting back to me! Yes, I’ve checked that out. Our categories are good to go. What I’m referring to I guess are subcategories for a category. Those are what I can’t find to edit. Any suggestions?

[Caroline]

Hi Kerry,

Thanks for following up to clarify–so sorry for my misunderstanding here! When creating a new category from the Event Categories section, you can select a Parent Event Category from the drop-down menu to designate a parent for the category you’re creating. This will register your new category as a subcategory of the specified parent. Existing categories can also be converted into subcategories in a similar fashion. Simply hover over any category in the provided list, click the Edit link that appears beneath the category title, and select the new parent for your event before saving your changes.

Does that help to answer your question here? Let me know! 🙂 Thanks again!

[Kerry]

Hmmmm…I’ve tried that as well. I’m looking for where the sub categories within a category already exist so that I can then create a new one.

[Caroline]

Hi Kerry,

I’m sorry to hear that you’re still having trouble here! At the moment, designating a category as a child of another parent category is the only way to create a subcategory. Our event categories are defined by the same processes as standard WordPress post categories–you can read more about these on the WordPress Codex.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Posts_Categories_SubPanel

Once you’ve specified a parent category for a new or existing category, that subcategory will be moved beneath its parent and will be indented by a horizontal line, as seen here:

When creating a new subcategory using the form on the Event Categories page, does the subcategory not appear as shown above? Any details you can provide on the steps you’ve followed would be a huge help! 🙂

Thank you!

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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