Help! custom "Event Categories" greatly limits The Events Calendar – Solutions?

[uxicorp]

Since The Events Calendar uses this custom category type – “Event Categories”, it creates a number of issues:

1. I cannot reconcile categories for posts and categories for events. So users who expect to see posts and events when choosing a category are missing content.

2. I need to maintain redundant lists of categories.

3. Other plugins that make it easy to display, navigate and work with categories in widgets and other capacities are blind to the “Event Categories”. Therefore, lots of low level coding will be needed to adapt those other plugins to the custom “Event Categories” structure.

Can you offer a simple way to mod The Events Calendar so that it utilizes “Categories” instead of “Event Categories”? This would make it much easier to work with. Thanks!

[Barry]

Hi uxicorp,

That’s an interesting question and would make a valid feature request if you’re game to make one:

tribe.uservoice.com

I believe there are some examples of making post categories available to events here on the forum – however I’m not sure that will be the complete answer in your case as there can be other side effects to this (the category archive may not result in any matching event post types being returned, for example).

So, at this point, this really isn’t something we can help with directly – but do make a feature request and we’ll certainly consider it 🙂

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