Disabling Editing of Event Categories

[phylaxis]

I wanted to be able to do this and I mean across this old post: https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/disable-editing-of-event-categories/

While the answer is a good one a concern I had was by overriding the entire Tribe Events register_taxonomy call it could cause issues with future updates. Below is my modified solution which reads the original parameters and then just overrides the capabilities section and then re-registers the taxonomy. Thought it might be helpful to others in the future.

function bdc_tribe_events_cat() {

    //only needed in admin
    if( !is_admin() )
    {
        return;
    }

    // get the arguments of the already-registered taxonomy
    $events_category_args = get_taxonomy( 'tribe_events_cat' ); // returns an object

    $new_permissions = array(
        'manage_terms'. => 'update_themes',
        'edit_terms'.        => 'update_themes',
        'delete_terms'.    => 'update_themes',
        'assign_terms'.    => 'update_themes'
    );

    $events_category_args->cap = $new_permissions;

    register_taxonomy( 'tribe_events_cat', 'tribe_events', (array) $events_category_args);
}

//only admins can edit event categories
add_action( 'init', 'bdc_tribe_events_cat', 11 );

[Barry]

Hi there @phylaxis,

We appreciate you sharing this – thank you!

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