{"id":1145473,"date":"2016-07-29T03:19:56","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T10:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/event-categories-vs-product-categories\/"},"modified":"2016-07-29T03:19:56","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T10:19:56","slug":"event-categories-vs-product-categories","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/event-categories-vs-product-categories\/","title":{"rendered":"Event categories VS Product categories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there,<\/p>\n<p>What we are aiming for is some kind of &#8220;membership&#8221; website. Only registert and accepted members can attend an event. So the ideal situation for us is that every visitor can VIEW all events, but can&#8217;t buy tickets.. there for they need to register and be assigned to a specific role using the ultimate members plugin in combination with woocommerce. I know there is a plugin at woocommerce named: https:\/\/docs.woocommerce.com\/document\/catalog-visibility-options\/ with this plugin we can block people from adding to the cart with the use of product categories. But the events calendar uses event categories.. Do you guys know if this is possible to hook or so?<\/p>\n<p>An other option is not displaying the ticket section when a user is not logged in as a specific user.. is this possible? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1145473","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Event categories VS Product categories -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/event-categories-vs-product-categories\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Event categories VS Product categories -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi there, What we are aiming for is some kind of &#8220;membership&#8221; website. 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