Category Countdown

[Wyatt]

I’m trying to find out how to show an event countdown by category. We currently have 5 different categories, so my goal is to have a separate widget for each category that would show on their respective pages.

I created a “text” widget using this short code, but it’s still not working for me. [tribe_event_countdown category=”Tour”]

Please help.

[Josh]

Hey Eric,

Unfortunately there isn’t a “category” attribute for the countdown widget so you wouldn’t be able to get the events you’re looking for with the settings you have above.

An option would be to create a sort of wrapper shortcode. that would allow you to select the category, run a new query based on that and then pass the appropriate “id” into the countdown shortcode to display a specific event.

An example of this would be:

https://gist.github.com/BeardedGinger/7b6274c6b0859b0bd37ecb646c7eb7b4

With that you could use [countdown_by_category category=”tour”] to display the countdown for the latest event in the “tour” category.

Let me know if this helps.

Thanks!

[Wyatt]

Ok perfect. So would I create an new PHP file?

Or where would I copy this code to so I can use the shortcake?

Would I add it to the bottom of this file: config-events-calendar/config.php

Thanks again for helping me with this.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by Wyatt.

[Wyatt]

Please help… Where should this code live?

[Josh]

Hey Eric,

The code would be added to your child theme’s functions.php file. You can include it at the end of your file, ensuring that it doesn’t fall within another function. Additionally, the snippet above includes an opening “<?php” tag. You don’t want to add that into the file when pasting in your snippet.

If you’re uncomfortable with adding snippets to your functions file, you can try a plugin such as this to add the snippets to your site.

Let me know if this helps.

Thanks!

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