Return category name with post in loop

[Chris]

I love this plugin. One thing I can’t figure out so far: I am getting my event data returned using global $post;
$all_events = tribe_get_events(
array(
‘eventDisplay’=>’upcoming’,
‘posts_per_page’=>10,
‘tax_query’=> array(
array(
‘taxonomy’ => ‘tribe_events_cat’,
‘field’ => ‘slug’,
‘terms’ => ‘microsoft-excel-classes’
)
)
)
);

foreach($all_events as $post) {
setup_postdata($post);
etc. and it is working great. But I would like to grab my category name and output it in my WordPress page. I have tried get_the_category() and the_category to no avail. Any help?

[Barry]

Hi Chris, because our forum has a tendency to mangle code I’d like to be sure the code you posted above is accurate … so, can you paste a link to your code using a service like Pastebin or Gist? Thanks!

[Chris]

Hi Barry

The link for pastebin is http://pastebin.com/2yK04ru2. The challenge I’m referring to in this ticket is on line 29 not working.

Thanks
Chris

[Barry]

Ah, oh. So using the_category() function will return regular post categories, however The Events Calendar uses a custom taxonomy for this so you’ll need to use different functions to do what you want here.

There are a few ways you might approach this but take a look at get_the_taxonomies() first of all or else you could do something like:

$terms = get_the_term_list( get_the_ID(), $tribe_ecp->get_event_taxonomy() );

[Barry]

* In my snippet above, you would need to populate $tribe_ecp first of all:

$tribe_ecp = TribeEvents::instance();

[Chris]

Thanks Barry, that plugged my leak! I appreciate your help, especially on a weekend. You guys rock. You can close this ticket if you like.

[Barry]

Cheer Chris 😀

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