{"id":1323251,"date":"2017-07-19T07:41:17","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T14:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/cant-upgrade-due-to-category-checkboxes-disapearing\/"},"modified":"2017-07-19T07:41:17","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T14:41:17","slug":"cant-upgrade-due-to-category-checkboxes-disapearing","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/cant-upgrade-due-to-category-checkboxes-disapearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Can&#039;t upgrade due to category checkboxes disapearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have downgraded back to previous version due to this pretty radical change to the way Community events has always worked.<br \/>\nMy site has many event categories with sub categories. The site navigation is based around these categories as well as custom post types that display events by category or tag.<\/p>\n<p>Categories are by region, type of events, holiday guides, etc&#8230; There is no way for a user to be able to &#8216;guess&#8217; what they might be &#8211; they need to see a list and select the correct categories. The new system is such a step backwards for my users &#8211; it is not intuitive at all.<\/p>\n<p>I have seen a few code snippets to add the categories back in &#8211; but it looks like I will lose the hierarchy of my categories which is also VERY important. <\/p>\n<p>I need to either find a solution to this problem before I can upgrade my Events Calendar plug-ins.  Please Help!<\/p>\n<p>========================<br \/>\nPLEASE LEAVE FOR SUPPORT<br \/>\nReporting the same issue as:\u00a0https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/event-category-check-boxes-are-missing-after-4-5-1-update\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1323251","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>Can&#039;t upgrade due to category checkboxes disapearing -<\/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\/cant-upgrade-due-to-category-checkboxes-disapearing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Can&#039;t upgrade due to category checkboxes disapearing -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I have downgraded back to previous version due to this pretty radical change to the way Community events has always worked. 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