{"id":1287544,"date":"2017-05-23T02:27:26","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T09:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/rest-api-and-event-categories\/"},"modified":"2017-05-23T05:58:25","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T12:58:25","slug":"rest-api-and-event-categories","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/rest-api-and-event-categories\/","title":{"rendered":"REST API and event categories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>I use the following php code to use regular categories with tribe events:<\/p>\n<p><code>\/\/ Make events support regular categories<br \/>\nadd_action( 'init', 'my_wpa_categories_for_events' );<br \/>\nfunction my_wpa_categories_for_events(){<br \/>\n  register_taxonomy_for_object_type( 'category', 'tribe_events' );<br \/>\n}<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Now I am trying to query events through the RESP API and filter by category. But the REST API code only uses the tribe_events_cat taxonomy:<\/p>\n<p><code>        protected function parse_categories( WP_REST_Request $request ) {<br \/>\n                return $this-&gt;parse_terms( $request, 'categories', Tribe__Events__Main::TAXONOMY );<br \/>\n        }<\/code><\/p>\n<p>It would be nice to either have a filter on Tribe__Events__Main::TAXONOMY in this function, or add regular categories query support some other way.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1287544","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>REST API and event 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\/rest-api-and-event-categories\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"REST API and event categories -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hello, I use the following php code to use regular categories with tribe events: \/\/ Make events support regular categories add_action( &#039;init&#039;, &#039;my_wpa_categories_for_events&#039; ); function my_wpa_categories_for_events(){ register_taxonomy_for_object_type( &#039;category&#039;, &#039;tribe_events&#039; ); } Now I am trying to query events through the RESP API and filter by category. 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