List of Categories

[Nicholas]

I’m trying to create a list of categories in a sidebar next to the event list. Users would be able to filter the event list by category that way. I just can’t seem to find the template tag for categories. Thanks

[Rob]

Hey Nicholas. Thanks for the note. Have you checked out our template tag documentation (at https://theeventscalendar.com/support/documentation ) to see if it points you in the right direction? Let me know if not and I can get a dev to take a look here.

[Nicholas]

I used tribe_meta_event_cats( ) but only returned one category. I’m not quite sure what to include to get a list of all categories.

[Rob]

Ah, gotcha. Thanks for confirming – let me see if our dev Jonah has any ideas here when he hits the forums today. Stay tuned.

[Jonah]

Hey Nicholas, categories are taxonomy terms in our plugin so you can use the WordPress get_terms function to pull all the categories like so:

$terms = get_terms("tribe_events_cat");
$count = count($terms);
if ( $count > 0 ){
echo "";
foreach ( $terms as $term ) {
echo "slug . "'>" . $term->name . "";

}
echo "";
}

That should point you in the right direction but let me know if you have any other questions on this.

– Jonah

[Nicholas]

Ok, I’m getting closer.
My end goal is to have an unordered list of Category links in my sidebar. I’m able to pull in the term name’s but not the links themselves, and using the term name’s in the links doesn’t work because of the spaces. I apologize, I’m new to php, and I’m probably missing something really obvious here.

0 ){

echo "";

foreach ( $terms as $term ) {

echo "name . "'>" . $term->name . "";

}

echo "";

}

?>

[Nicholas]

disregard that snippet.
that did not work how I hoped

[Rob]

Hey Nicholas, if you’re trying to display code, it may be easiest to do so using pastie.org or a similar service, then just drop in the link so we can review from there. Apologies for the inconvenience on this end.

[Nicholas]

Still having trouble with this. here’s what I’ve gotten so far:

[Nicholas]

http://pastie.org/3598116

[Rob]

Hey Nicholas. We can take another look, but what element of the problem remains? Is it the entire issue as described in your previous post or have you made progress? Let me know.

[Nicholas]

Thanks Rob.
Its made progress in that I used Jonah’s response to pull in the term names into a list. My goal is that each item of the list is a link to sort the events by categories (taxonomies, basically).
I was trying to use the same term name code to pull in the link url, but that did not work for me.

[Nicholas]

I found the solution! I was using term name where I should have been using term slug

[Rob]

Ah, excellent to hear! Glad that you’ve got this figured out, Nicholas. It sounds like you’re all set here but let me know if you need anything else down the road and we’ll do what we can to assist.

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