Categories within categories

Not creator of the event MANAGER but do you mean

Event Categories

Parent
—— of main Event Cat (== Sub cat!)

Thanks for your response mgrmn, but i can honestly say I do not understand what you mean. I’m still fairly lost with the whole parent child thing but i’m thinking you might be talking about something completely different.

I really want it to look like this

Categories > Sub categories (category within main category) > Event

Does that make more sense?

when creating categories at Events > Event Categories; you can choose the Parent category?

So if i was to make swimming category the main (parent) category and then the age groups as the sub category (child) and then the events as normal, are you saying that will work?

sorry if i sound super dumb here.

yes, that should worked.

ok i’ll try it, thanks very much for your advice

ok, just ask if you have any further issues.

Ok i tried adding the age groups and when i view the parent event category, the other sub event categories don’t show up.

For example I have Swimming as the main – Parent. I can’t actually choose Swimming as a parent within that event category, as far as I know or can see.

When i added an age group for swimming and selected swimming as the parent it appeared to save and work but didn’t show up within the swimming parent category.

What have I missed here?

atm we only search the actual category, not their children, so what you could do is check both Swimming and the age group for each event.

This is getting so confusing for me now.

I have entered all of the events – i’ve made an entry for each specific event for each specific age group so for 1 event it has 8 separate events to match each age group that can enter that event. Now that I have done that, are you saying that instead of having swimming as the main category, i have to make categories for each age group for swimming and then place the specific events under each age group category?

This would be so much easier if this was a face to face conversation i’m sure because writing this stuff is confusing in itself.

I’m thinking after all of this that the cleanest way for visitors to view the categories is if I create normal pages under the sub categories names and then just link to the relevant events from there. It’s a heap of extra work on my part but if the events manager won’t do it i guess I’ll have to.

I did try as suggested above but the events manager doesn’t list the events according to age groups as it only shows them according to events in alphabetical order which sucks.

I can’t believe all of this work went into developing an events manager plugin and nobody ever really thought of sub-categories as a requirement.

I also tried linking each swimming event to the age group category and that just looked messy – mixed with the fact that events manager displays the events in a less than pleasing manner to start with.

After a night of frustrating data entry i’m less than happy with this plugin – sorry to sound so negative.

with categories, you can choose more than one, so for example, you can choose

– Swimming
— Ages 8+
— Ages x+
— etc.

and you choose Swimming and Ages 8+ for the kids event for example, that’ll appear now in both swimming and ages category. That is 100% wordpress right there, custom taxonomies, not EM.

if you had a link, that’d certainly be more helpful for us to understand what you’re trying to do. if you chooose the relevant categories, EM is capable of having a page for each category showing all the selected events, in various formats and ordering.

If you want face-to-face support, you should consider hiring someone experienced with WP to help you.

I am frustrated at the set up of Categories. From both the setup in the backend and for users “searching” for events. The tutorials do not put a lot of weight on how to set up Parent Categories…
If we had several hundreds of event categories it would make the Category page look hmmm I will save the word.
You would thing that there could be some kind “types” of walk through examples of simple, moderate and advanced ways of using this plugin.

So far it has been a complete dissapointment in trying to find solutions. I would at this point have to give it two thumbs down.

Ok..just to compare form a newbie stand point. Check out the regions of the Business Directory plugin…

You can associate Country as the parent. Then you can get as many children below it as you want. For example..

State,
County,
City,
Name of community
A “spot” in those listed above with some name…

Why can we not have

Sports Events as a Parent, then all the events we want below it
rrrr.

Do you have an example where that plugin deals with pagination whilst preserving hierarchichal structures?

That’s the main issue we’re facing at the moment, along with merging that with our placeholder formats way of altering the content of these lists.