Using regular categories for events

[Gilles]

I am using regular categories for events (instead of events categories, see code below). Everything works fine except that when I click on a category assigned to some event, the category page comes up empty. I am guessing that it is looking through regular posts and not tribe_events. Checking the ‘Add events to main loop’ box does not help.

Any idea how to fix that?

// Make events support regular categories
add_action( 'init', 'wpa_categories_for_events' );
function wpa_categories_for_events(){
  register_taxonomy_for_object_type( 'category', 'tribe_events' );
}

[Barry]

Hi Gilles,

You’d need to modify the default query generated by WordPress for those pages.

The way we handle this for post tags, for instance, is by adding tribe_events to the query’s post_type argument during the parse_query action:

github.com/moderntribe/the-events-calendar/blob/3.9.3/lib/tribe-event-query.class.php#L47-L65

In your situation, you’d need to take a similar approach but apply it to regular categories.

I hope that helps 🙂

[Gilles]

Okay, that’s what I thought and did. Thank you for the reply!

[Barry]

Great 🙂

In that case I’ll go ahead and close this topic — but of course please don’t hesitate to open new support topics as needed should anything else crop up.

Thanks again!

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