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Hi there,

This may have been answered already but if so, I can’t find it.

I’m doing some custom theming and am looking to display the category name on a page (in this case, “Training”)

I was able to use the following to output the venue and the time, and they worked fine:

<?php echo sp_get_venue(); ?>

<?php echo sp_get_address(); ?>

Then I tried to use this to out put the event’s category:

<?php echo tribe_get_event_categories(); ?>

And it echoes back:

<div>Event Category:</div> <ul class="tribe-event-categories"><li><a href="http://ourdomain.com/calendar/category/training/" rel="tag">Training</a></li></ul>

How do I just get it to echo back the word “Training” and nothing else (without any of the div, ul, li, a or any other tags) like the venue and address above do? I just need the event category name to display, no html tags at all.

Thanks for any help.

Correct Answer

Hey David,

Glad to help you out with this issue as well!

Let me start by saying that sp_get_venue is deprecated and should use tribe_get_venue instead. Also use tribe_get_address instead of sp_get_address. Regarding the categories in text format you can add the snippet below to your theme’s (or child theme’s) functions.php file:

if ( class_exists('Tribe__Events__Main') ){

	/* get event category names in text format */
	function tribe_get_text_categories ( $event_id = null ) {

		if ( is_null( $event_id ) ) {
			$event_id = get_the_ID();
		}

		$event_cats = '';

		$term_list = wp_get_post_terms( $event_id, Tribe__Events__Main::TAXONOMY );

		foreach( $term_list as $term_single ) {
			$event_cats .= $term_single->name . ', ';
		}

		return rtrim($event_cats, ', ');

	}

}

Once the code is in place you can call the function in the template: echo tribe_get_text_categories ();.

Please give a try and let me know if it works for you,
Best,
Nico

Works perfect, just what I was looking for. Thanks Nico.

Stocked to hear David, thanks for the heads-up 🙂

I’ll go ahead and close out this thread, but if you need help with anything else please don’t hesitate to create a new one and we will be happy to assist you.

Best,
Nico