Removing one category of events from main event list and calendar.

[Seth]

I want to remove all events from one category from my main calendar and events list. However, I still want the specific category calendar and event list to work. Any ideas?

[Rob]

Hi Seth. So just to be clear: you want these to be hidden on the grid/list view, but still accessible via clicking into a category directly? Not sure what this would entail but I can get Jonah to take a look and see if there are any quick hacks you can use to make this happen…just confirm with me on the above so we’re not going down the wrong path from the getgo. Thanks!

[Seth]

Yep that’s right.

[Rob]

Alright thanks. I’m not sure how doable that is but I’ll let someone more dev-minded than I respond 🙂 Jonah has this in his round of threads for today so hopefully we’ll have a response for you here shortly.

[Jonah]

Hi Seth, this is doable but it’s going to require a fair amount of template edits.

First make copies of wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/views/table.php and wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/views/list.php and place them into an ‘events’ folder in your them.

For table.php find line 20 that currently has:


$eventPosts = tribe_get_events(array( 'eventDisplay'=>'month' ));


…and modify that to:


$eventPosts = tribe_get_events(array(
'eventDisplay'=>'month',
'tax_query'=>array(
array(
'taxonomy' => 'tribe_events_cat',
'field' => 'id',
'terms' => 4,
'operator' => 'NOT IN'
)
)
));


Replacing ‘4’ with the ID of your events category you want to exclude. Just browse your events categories in the admin and hover over their name to get the tag_ID.

For the list, open up list.php and before the line that reads:


if (have_posts()) :


Copy and paste the following: http://pastebin.com/PPLCicug

That should do it!

[Seth]

Worked like a charm, thanks so much!

[Jonah]

Glad to hear Seth!

[Seth]

Actually, the code added to list.php seems to break the Next/Previous Events links on the page.

[Jonah]

Got an example I can look at?

[Seth]

Sure – http://www.dmu.edu/calendar/upcoming/

I also made sure this wasn’t due to my custom template list.php. I tried the code with the default list.php and no luck.

If I remove the code (http://pastebin.com/PPLCicug) from list.php the Next/Previous links come back.

Here is my full list.php if you need to view that – http://pastebin.com/PXQc8yFn

[Jonah]

Hey Seth, I wonder if this is because not that you’re excluding a category from your list you do not have enough events to display the prev/next links?

[Jeremy]

I’ve tried this on my site and found the same thing as Seth – the table code works great but the list code removes pagination from the query for some reason. All results instead show on one page. I think for my purposes we’ll be fine without the filter on the list and will only be using it on the table so it’s no issue and I won’t have time to pursue causes but I wanted to throw on some feedback.

Thanks for the code, Jonah!
Jeremy

[Rob]

Thanks for the heads up, Jeremy. Looks like this is something we’ll need to address in a future release so that folks in your position don’t have to hack at it.

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