Multiple Categories

[Alex Petrie]

Hi,

I think I may have confused myself whilst digging through your documentation, but basically I needed a way to have calendars show specific events categories

If found this option to show only events from the category your-journey-to-self-employment

http://www.businessfactorynt.co.uk/events/category/outdoors/your-journey-to-self-employment/

But I also wanted a calendar that was the inverse of this i.e. all of the remaining categories.

I bought the Pro plugin thinking I could use the following:

[tribe_events view=”month” categories=”design, networking, social-media”]

But this does not work, and I’m guessing this got mixed up whilst looking up short code information, e.g.

[tribe_events view=”month” category=”your-journey-to-self-employment”] – OK
[tribe_mini_calendar categories=”design, networking, social-media”] – OK
[tribe_events view=”month” categories=”design, networking, social-media”] – Not OK

I then spotted the comment -‘ Unfortunately, the [tribe_events] shortcode does not currently support multiple categories’ on the page https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/filtering-events-using-short-tags-not-working/

So the workaround would be to create a parent category for the multiple categories I want to display

Based on the above it looks like I didn’t need the Pro version at all (I have gained nothing in terms of what I want to do).

Can you please confirm I am right as I may want to drop the pro version and get a refund.

Thanks in advance
Alex

[Victor]

Hi Alex!

Thanks for reaching out to us! Let me help you with this.

You are right in that the [tribe_events] shortcode does not currently support multiple categories. You can learn more about all the available shortcodes for Events Calendar PRO here > https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/pro-widget-shortcodes/

If you still want to proceed with the refund, please fill in the form in here > https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/refund-policy/ and we’ll take care of it.

From what you want to achieve with the categories, it seems that you might find useful our Filter Bar plugin > https://theeventscalendar.com/product/wordpress-events-filterbar/

I hope that clears things out. Don’t hesitate to ask any other question and I’d be happy to help.

Best,
Victor

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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