Display just category name

[David]

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:

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

And it echoes back:

Event Category:

• Training

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.

[Nico]

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

[David]

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

[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

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