Exlcuding a category from mini calendar

[Riccardo]

Is it possible to use the minicalendar excluding some categories? Maybe using a shortcode?

[Cliff]

Hi Riccardo. You could use one of our plugin’s widgets or shortcodes. However, I believe there are only ways to include specific categories (include only these), not exclude them (i.e. include all but these).

If your categories are static (i.e. not changing/editing them), it would be easy to just select all the categories except the one you want to exclude.

Please let me know if this answers your question.

[Riccardo]

This seems reasonable as my categories shouldn’t change (as for the future I would recommend the developers to add the exclusion feature, basically sql allows this easily).
Do I need the shortcode to include multiple categories?

[Cliff]

Riccardo, you could use the shortcode or widget to accomplish this.

Also, regarding your suggestion, I didn’t find that as an existing feature request at our plugins’ UserVoice page.

Please do add your feature request there.

This allows others who are interested in that feature to easily voice their support. We frequently review suggestions there to find out which ones are popular, then we implement as many of them as we can.

Once you post it, feel free to link to it from here in case anyone comes across this forum thread in the future.

[Riccardo]

Thanks you Cliff, could you instruct me how to select multiple categories from the widget? It looks like you can only select one…

[Cliff]

Sure thing.

I’m guessing you don’t have PRO active. Please make sure you activate that plugin. Then add the Events Calendar widget to your sidebar and you can do something like this.

Let me know if you need anything else on this topic.

[Riccardo]

Do you mean license activated?

[Riccardo]

Cliff the plugin is activated, I can see the dropdown list however I can only select one category, not multiple categories see here: https://s31.postimg.org/qek257z0b/Untitled.jpg

• This reply was modified 9 years, 9 months ago by Riccardo.

[Cliff]

2 items for clarification:

1. I was mistaken: the Events Calendar widget is only available in PRO; there isn’t a free version of that widget.)
2. If the PRO plugin is active, it should work regardless of whether or not you’ve entered your license key for PRO in the plugin’s settings screen.

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Because what you’re describing is not a known bug, I’d suggest following our recommended troubleshooting steps:

Could you please make sure all your Modern Tribe plugins (and WordPress core) are at their latest versions?

• Downloads / Version Numbers
• TEC Automatic Updates
• or TEC Manual Updates
• WordPress core updates

Once you verify you’re on the latest versions, please test to see if the issue is still happening for you.

If it is, please follow our Testing for Conflicts Guide (basically switch to TwentySixteen theme and deactivate all plugins and custom code other than Modern Tribe plugins) and see if that helps narrow down the cause of this.

If it doesn’t, please enable WP_DEBUG and WP_DEBUG_LOG and share any PHP errors you see while changing tickets quantity, navigating your site’s home page, events page, single-event pages, and any other of your site’s pages relevant to this ticket.

Then, please share your System Information (while in Testing for Conflicts mode).

You might also see if you can spot any console errors at your site. (If needed, you may reference our KB article Using Google Chrome Developer Tools.)

Let us know what you find out.

Thanks.

[Riccardo]

Could yo tell me if you can select multiple categories within the widget dropdown list? I suspect you can’t too…

[Cliff]

Here’s a video of me doing it: https://cl.ly/1l471P1e1C3Q

Please let me know if it clears things up for you.

[Riccardo]

Ahhh I see where the problem is! I am using the widget in a Siteorigin pagebuilder row/cell, and the behaviour of the widget is different when running in the sidebar and when running in the row…..

Who knows why the widget is behaving in a different way in the row…..

[Riccardo]

I see this is a “common” problem https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/event-list-widget-and-pagebuilder/

and

https://goo.gl/h0K91g

in my case the conflict is on the calendar widget but it may be similar….

• This reply was modified 9 years, 9 months ago by Riccardo.

[Cliff]

Thanks for explaining.

As stated at the end of that forum link you included, any known/existing bugs were fixed a while back. There aren’t any known conflicts/issues at this time.

However, you’re right that their implementation of our widget only allows selecting a single category. And in my testing, selecting a single category doesn’t even save that setting.

I’d suggest passing this issue along to their support forum to ask, since there aren’t any WP_DEBUG messages generated from using the two plugins together.

As a workaround, I’d suggest using the shortcode version of that widget, like this: [tribe_mini_calendar categories="party, black-tie" tag="#512"]

[Riccardo]

Yes I will follow the shortcode approach.
Thanks for helping Cliff

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