Adding 'Category' to Organizer information

[Cees]

Currently I’m working wth the event calendar (EC) on my website and I’m curious about the possibility to add the EC organizer info – which is a kind of blogpost – to a DIVI-slider.
In order to do that, the DIVI-slider selects blogpost by ‘category’, but regrettably I can’t add a category label to the EC organizer post.

Of course I would like to know if there is a possibility to add a category label to these organizer posts, making it possible to add those organizer posts to the regular DIVI-slider.

I’m also using Featured Slider by Slider Villa and I have seen there would be possibility to add the ‘organizer posts’ to a Featured Slider slider, but since I’m using another design with the regular DIVI slider on other pages, this would not be a solution for me.

Since Im not a programmer or developer, a more simple solution would be welcome.

If there already is information available on this topic, please let me know where to find it, if not, I hope you can help me out.
It does’ t seem to a huge problem, it’s almost like building a bridge or a tunnel from both sides, but missing in the middle where the two sides should be connected.

Hope to hear from you soon.

Kind regards,

[Geoff]

Hi @Cees,

Great question! It would certainly take some development to create a custom taxonomy and then to make that taxonomy available for Organizers. However, there is a pretty handy plugin that can make this a lot easier and I’d recommend giving it a try:

Custom Post Types and Custom Fields creator – WCK

I just tested that out and it allowed me to create a new custom taxonomy and then apply to specifically to Organizers.

Will that work for you as well? Please let me know. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

[Cees]

Thanks Geoff, I will have a look at it and try it out.
Another challenging next step, but nice to hear from you which way to go.

Right now I have been able to add a category to the events calendar organizer ‘post’, but haven’t been able yet to show it in a slider or blog.
I guess somewhere there has to bearded a definition that also ‘reads’ the ‘hidden’ posts form the Event Calendar.
Any suggestion how to is welcome.

[Geoff]

Hey Cees,

So glad to hear that the plugin allowed you to assign a category to organizers — that’s awesome!

I’m unfortunately not as familiar with the slider plugin you are using than I am our own plugins. I would suggest reaching out to the plugin author to see if they have any tips for displaying posts now that you’ve been able to implement categories.

Thanks!
Geoff

[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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