Choose Specific Category for Facebook Imports

[rhythmtravels]

How can I choose a specific category for the imported Facebook events?

also when clicking website.com/event/category/festival the events in that category does not appear.

[Brian]

Hi,

Thanks for using Facebook Events.

We do not have a feature to add categories to imported events.

We have a hook you can connect into that could enable you to add a category for all Facebook Events.

tribe_events_facebook_event_created

If you need something more complex then that I encourage you to visit our User Voice Page and either upvote an existing request or make a new request there.

http://tribe.uservoice.com/

Let me know if you have any follow up questions.

Thanks

[rhythmtravels]

Hi Brian

Thank you for your reply, could you please simplyfy the meaning with hook? not so code savvy 🙂

I’ve seen previous posts (https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/set-default-category-for-facecbook-importer/) about same question where we could add a string but I can’t find where to put it in this later version?

My second question is:
Why doesnt events appear in its specific category link http://website.com/event/category/festival?

[Brian]

Hi,

I came up with this snippet to add a category.

/**
* The Events Calendar Facebook Events - Add Category to Imported Events
* change Facebook Event to the name of the event category
* @Version 4.0
*/
add_action( 'tribe_events_facebook_event_created', 'tribe_fb_add_category' );
function tribe_fb_add_category( $event_id ) {

wp_set_object_terms( $event_id, 'Facebook Event', 'tribe_events_cat', false );

}

Add that to your theme’s functions.php and replace Facebook Event with the name of the category you would like.

Why doesnt events appear in its specific category link http://website.com/event/category/festival?

We currently do not support categories from Facebook so there is no coding to deal with it right now.

Thanks

[rhythmtravels]

Hello Brian

Thank you so much for the snippet! works well!

The second question was separate from the facebook question. I have events added manually, set to Festival as category and when clicking on the category link these events do not appear. They used to before version 4.0 but not anymore.

[Brian]

Hi,

Thanks for using our plugins. I can help out here.

Do you have a link to the issue?

It is hard to tell what is going on without see it.

You can provide it as a private reply if you like.

Let me know and we can go from here.

Thanks

[rhythmtravels]

This reply is private.

[Brian]

Can you also provide a link to an event that is suppose to show there, but is not.

Thanks

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