Specific need for Filter Bar—can this be done?

[Mollie]

Hi all.

I’m trying to set up a system to track upcoming media releases, and what I’m wanting/needing to do is have the option where visitors can search for specific kinds of metadata about the calendar entries. In order to do this, I need to add that specific data to said entries.

Example: Let’s say I put “Movie X” in as an event. I want to be able to special that its “Format” is “Blu-Ray” and “DVD”, that its “Genre” is “Horror” and “Action”, and so on. Then, a visitor could come to my site and, say, search for anything on Blu-Ray that’s horror.

I know that the Pro option lets you add additional details to events, but my question is, can I then select some of those new details to be part of the Filter Bar’s drop-down menus? Like, instead of “Organizer”, could I then have a “Format” dropdown, and a “Genre” dropdown, if those are things that I’ve set up for events?

I know I can know everything under the Category dropdown, but that would be an absolute mess to use.

Thanks for any info on this! The answer to this will basically decide if Events Calendar has any use to me or not.

[George]

Hey Mollie,

Thanks for reaching out to us – sounds like a cool project. And it would indeed be a great use of the Filter Bar plugin, but there’s unfortunately only some good news here with equal parts bad news 🙁

Basically, yes, the Filter Barr add-on has support for custom taxonomies like you’re describing here. If you added a “Format” taxonomy and a “Genre” taxonomy correctly to WordPress, then you could add them to the filter bar, but not with a simple switch of an option, or a few quick clicks. It would require custom coding at this time.

For the record, this is something we’re hoping to improve in future versions of the Filter Bar add-on, though there’s no specific date or even estimate for when we’ll be able to build these features at this time.

As it stands right now, you’d have to write the custom code to include your custom taxonomies in Filter Bar, which isn’t the simplest customization to make…if you’re curious about how some of the code for this would look, you can see two forum threads where specific code was discussed in detail here:

• https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/adding-a-custom-filter/
• https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/adding-custom-filter-to-filter-bar-2/

Sorry for some of the disappointing news here – let me know if you have any other followup questions or if there’s anything else I can help with!

Thanks,
George

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