Category parent/child formating

hi,

just to confirm, do you want to have the same templates/formats for the parent and child category or different formats ?

I want the list to appear as they are set up in the Add Event Categories page, with parent category above and distinguished and it’s child categoies listed under it. Currently, it is a “flat” list and the parents are simply alphabetical with its children categories.

I can see where in the future I may even want to seperate, like on different pages or just divs a certain parent with its children categories, but for now, I would love to just figure this out.

Thank you so much for your response!!

I have figured out the shortcodes a bit, which takes care of my second paragraph above, so scratch that specific part. You guys have built some pretty awesome software for people like me.

Hiya,

I *think* you should be able to do something like this;

[categories_list]
  #_CATEGORYNAME
  [categories_list child_of="#_CATEGORYID"]
    #_CATEGORYNAME
    [events_list category="#_CATEGORYID"]
      #_EVENTNAME
    [/events_list]
  [/categories_list]
[/categories_list]

However, I haven’t tested it – and it’s a guess.

These three docs pages should give you all the info you need:
https://wp-events-plugin.com/documentation/shortcodes/
https://wp-events-plugin.com/documentation/event-search-attributes/
https://wp-events-plugin.com/documentation/placeholders/

Thanks,
Phil

That didn’t work as is, but I see what they are supposed to do. Does anyone know of a “cookbook” with some examples? I’m having a hard time grasping this.

Thank you for the input.

I would like to know how to do this as well. Have been working on it, but no luck so far. I would also like to add the number of upcoming events after each category, and hide empty categories.

I would like the categories page to look like this:

category 1 (upcoming event count)
  category 1 child 1  (upcoming event count)
  category 1 child 2  (upcoming event count)
category 2 (upcoming event count)
  category 2 child 1 (upcoming event count)
  category 2 child 2 (upcoming event count)

etc.

Thanks!

I think if you use shortcodes, you can do that. So, I’m thinking if look up the event category ID you want, other than the upcoming event count, you do:

[categories_list child_of=13]#_CATEGORYLINK[/categories_list]

I tried to add that using ul and li, but it keeps parsing it and not showing the html code. I can’t seem to make it work like you guy did … I must be missing something.

Anyway, then just add another shortcode under that changing your event category ID again.

Thanks for the help, I finally got it mostly working.

I’m using ‘parent’ instead of ‘child_of’ because ‘child_of’ lists all sub-categories and ‘parent’ only lists direct children.

<!-- first category -->
<ul>[categories_list include=112]
<li>#_CATEGORYLINK
<ul>[/categories_list][categories_list parent=112 <li>#_CATEGORYLINK</li>[/categories_list]
</ul></li></ul>
<!-- second category -->
<ul>[categories_list include=110]
<li>#_CATEGORYLINK
<ul>[/categories_list][categories_list parent=110 <li>#_CATEGORYLINK</li>[/categories_list]
</ul></li></ul>

So, any ideas on how to list the number of upcoming events in each category?