Shortcode options cat and cats not working

Same problem here, everything works, exept for the cat option.

Using Salient theme:
https://sector.tov.be/

Regards,
Bram

The cat parameter needs to have the exact slug or the category name (separated by commas if more than one) to display correctly.

@ lalas

From what I can see when you go to the event category link (under “Veranstaltung Kategorie”) you see the url as:

https://www.quirmbach.com/veranstaltungen/kategorie/persoenliche-coachings/

From this the shortcode should likely have cat=’persoenliche-coachings’ not just cat=’coaching’. Just ‘coachings’ https://www.quirmbach.com/veranstaltungen/kategorie/coachings/ doesn’t have any events in it.

What is your complete shortcode?

I am having this same issue. I’ve made sure I’ve copied the exact slug for my events category, but it is still showing a list of all events.

I tried another category, but only got the full list again. I made sure to copy the code from your page exactly and that didn’t work either.

Here is a page that is displaying the events: https://www.collincountygop.org/2016-election-process-primary-general/

This is the shortcode I am using in a text widget: [ecs-list-events cat=’2016-elections’]

Thanks for your help,
Chris

I’m not seeing any events for the slug 2016-elections:

https://www.collincountygop.org/calendar/category/2016-elections/2016-01/?tribe_events_cat=2016-elections&tribe-bar-date=2016-01

To verify the slug is correct, try find an event in that category under the main Calendar page, click the category link under “Event Category:”, and grab the slug after /category/. ie. if you go to:

https://www.collincountygop.org/event/republican-women-north-collin-county-january-meeting/

and click Clubs under Event Category, you’ll find the slug ‘clubs’

I did that procedure, and I am still getting the same result. My first instance of an event in that category is in March. Does that make a difference?

It seems strange that it would even be pulling in all events though nothing related to 2016-elections is in January.

PS. I am manually entering the dates that I need for the time being. I can set up a test page if necessary to continue testing this. Just let me know.

I did see that there were no events in December/January, but I’ve tested with shortcode [ecs-list-events cat='test-category'] with the next event in March and it shows the event successfully.

Can you confirm if the issue still happens with all other plugins disabled? Also, you are running WordPress 4.4 and the latest 4.0.4 version of The Events Calendar plugin correct?

I am having the same issue at https://wp.skydive-ostsee.de/ausbildung/

The tag is [ecs-list-events cat=’theoriekurs’ limit=’4′ contentorder=’date’] and the category in events calendar is named “theoriekurs”

WordPress Version 4.4
The Events Calendar Version 4.0.4
Shortcode Plugin Version 1.0.11

Any hints?

Yes, I am running 4.4 and 4.0.4. Unfortunately I cannot disable all of the other plugins on the live site. I will try to get a development site spun up and test with that soon.

@tarabas78 can you also set up a test site (if you don’t have one), disable all plugins except for The Events Calendar and the events shortcode plugin, switch to a default theme (like Twenty Sixteen) and see if the issue still occurs?

I was thinking the issue may have been with the language difference (ie. German), but have tested with events in a category far in the future and all works well. I’m new to helping with this plugin and wrote none of the original code, but can put a fix or warning in if there’s a common conflict.

@brianhogg

I set up a test site on a multi site network and disabled all plugins and switched to the Twenty Sixteen theme for the test site.

I created two categories with 3 events each.

Category 1: Event: one, Event: two, Event: three
Category 2: Event: four, Event: five, Event: six

https://kurse.quirmbach.com/test/

I’m using shortcodes:

[ecs-list-events cat=’category-1’ limit=’2′]
[ecs-list-events cat=’category-2’ limit=’3′]

But option cat is still not working…

Thanks for your help!

@lalas

Great that you wete able to set up a test site! It does look like it’s still drawing from the main site though. For example the link to the an event is:

https://kurse.quirmbach.com/event/event-three/

Which is not under /test. It might still be affected by other plugins running on the multisite network.

If you’re able to test on a copy of your live site and plugins disabled and default theme that would be best, and not on multisite, but I’ll see if I can find a problem.

Does the same thing happen if you don’t use the limit parameter of the shortcode?

@brianhogg

Thanks for your help!
I set up another test page (not on multisite) and categories parameter is still not working…

https://hi.lalanova.com/you/

Shortcodes:
[ecs-list-events cat=’event-cat-one’]
[ecs-list-events cat=’event-cat-two’]

Cats: Event Cat One with Event One, Two, Three and Event Cat Two with Event Four, Five, Six.

I didn’t use the limit parameter this time around. And if you click on any of the single events and then at the bottom of the page on Event Category it’s working as expected:

https://hi.lalanova.com/you/events/category/event-cat-two/
https://hi.lalanova.com/you/events/category/event-cat-one/

@lalas

Thanks for this!

Definitely seems odd that you’re seeing that if there are no other plugins. I’m still not able to replicate this locally, could you email me administrator access to this WordPress test site and/or a link to a place where I can download the database/files so I can try to replicate it myself locally? My email address is found at the bottom of brianhogg.com

Looking at the code, part of the issue might be the way events are being fetched currently, using get_posts vs. the Tribe-specific functions. I can test that once I can replicate your issue.

@brianhogg

I emailed the admin access – did you get it?