Display Events by Tag/Category?

I also am interested in this sort of feature. On my site, one page has a link to events that have the phrase “club meeting” in the title or body.

https://www.slvarc.org/events?s=club+meeting

I just guessed that this URL would work, and it did, but I’d prefer using a documented feature, and I’d prefer that the selection of the displayed events is through tags or categories.

I’m happy to license the PRO version if necessary, but it’s not clear to me that the PRO version provides the feature. I think I saw something about capabilities of a search bar, but I’m not looking for a search bar. Essentially I’d like to pre-fill-in the category or tag search value and display the results.

Perhaps another way to do this is a custom page template, but it’s not clear to me whether either the PRO or non-PRO version could be used for this.

@kerryveenstrra … thanks for chiming in ??

Same here overall, it’s not clear to me whether I can get what I am asking for in the core product or the pro product, or if I can get it all. I plan on upgrading to the pro product soon enough though.

Mostly I want to be able to say … here people for RV Shows look here at this page … for RV Rallies look here at this page … for RV Shows & RV Rallies combined look here at this page. Website – https://the-rv-life.com/rv-shows/

So I am wanting to display three separate varieties of a calendar list, I don’t know if that’s possible. Or if the branching out has to occur on/at the first instance/appearance of the calender and the viewer has to structure/sort the calendar that way.

I’d really rather be in control of how the calendar list is presented, but alas, I do not know if it’s possible, it may not structurally be possible what I’m asking for, I know that, but I need The Gang to weigh in … so I patiently wait … ??

@ The Tribe … And I say thank you Tribe for delineating exactly how and when you are able to process the .org/free plugin support, it lets us know what to expect fursur, and I appreciate the organization, structure, thinking, and thought that went into the policy, your policy of stating and explaining your position and processes. It sets the stage, I applaud you all. It’s straightforward, I like that, a lot.

B

Hi folks,

Thanks so much for posting and for your interest in our products! For the record, we do have a Pre-Sales Forum for this type of question which is monitored daily. But I’m more than happy to answer your questions here ??

You can link to calendars showing just one category of events or just a certain tag. We have a mini tutorial here that gets you started with categories. You can also use the custom url menu builder to link to specific tags, or other specific calendar pages (check out all the calendar urls here).

You guys might also want to check out our premium plugin Filter Bar, which allows visitors to search events by category, tag, price, day of the week, venue, and more. You can use it with or without Events Calendar PRO, and also use it alongside on the category and tag pages I described above.

I believe that one or both of those options will work for you guys. Let me know if you have any further questions. If you buy one or both of the plugins and need assistance, you can head to our premium support forums on the tri.be site.

Thanks again for your interest in our plugins!

Best,
Leah

Excellent! BTW, there’s an error in the calendar-urls post https://tri.be/faqs/calendar-view-urls/. It says category and tag links look like these:

/events/category/category-slug/
yoursite.com/tag/tag-slug/

But the tags link actually should be like the category link. This worked for me:

yoursite.com/events/tag/tag-slug/

Thank you for the help.

That’s funny, on my test sites the tags do not use the /events/ part of the url. I’m glad you figured out what would work for your site!

Cheers,
Leah

PS – @leah … I will be back to post my resolution … haven’t forgotten about this thread … other issues came up. ?? B

UPDATE:

@leah & @kerry,

1. Ok, here is my work-around, in answer to the original request. You can see it here … https://the-rv-life.com/rv-shows-events/

2. If there is another way to do what I originally asked, that you all think/see that I did not comprehend, please chime in.

3. Overall, I’m pretty happy with the eye-view of the calendar page, using the ‘Advanced Template Settings’.

4. One last thing I’d like to have the option to do, on this calendar page/’Advanced Template Settings’ page, … is to get the vertical spacing between lines, to no space, or otherwise stated, for the body text to, ‘not’ double space, or I am saying I want single spacing, between lines, as with any regular paragraph.

If that’s not too much trouble, that would be really helpful.

The area I am referring to is found in … Events > Settings > Display > Advanced Template Settings.

I have searched high and low on how to best tell the ‘Text Editor’ how to ‘not’ double-space lines in the bulleted list, and I sure could use some help. I know it’s a simple few commands/coding, but I am not that adept as yet.

Thanks much,
B

I’m not a CSS guru, but it looks like the <li> line-height is being set to 23px. (I used Safari’s web inspector, inspected the <li>, and looked at the computed properties to the right of the source window.)

I’ve monkeyed with widget CSS before by creating the file

./wp-content/themes/THEME_NAME/tribe-events/tribe-events.css

and then adding styles to do what I want.

(duplicate)

Hey Kerry … thanks for that, it’s more advanced than what I was looking for.

I have seen various renditions of simple html code that you can put into the Text Editor, to tell the margins to behave a certain way, that’s what I am looking for, simple, really simple, no php, no css. I’m still in grade school, lol.

B

@kerry & @leah,

After about two hours at a head bangers ball with Google as my date, I report JOY.

Here is the page that I was/am fiddling with … https://the-rv-life.com/rv-shows-events/ and remember this is using the Text Editor inside of the Advance Template Settings of the The Events Calendar Plugin.

After non-stop, back and forth, … I finally got zero spacing … by structuring like so:

<span style=”font-weight: bold;”>NOTICE: WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY ERRORS, OMISSIONS, CANCELLATIONS, OR ACTS OF GOD. PLEASE CONFIRM, CONFIRM, CONFIRM!</span>

<li style=”margin-top: 0 px; margin-bottom: 0 px”><span style=”font-weight: bold;”>FOR <span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>RV SHOWS</span> ONLY – https://the-rv-life.com/rv-shows-events/category/rv-shows/</span&gt;
<li style=”margin-top: 0 px; margin-bottom: 0 px”><span style=”font-weight: bold;”>FOR <span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>RV OPEN HOUSE</span> ONLY – https://the-rv-life.com/rv-shows-events/category/rv-open-houses/</span&gt;
<li style=”margin-top: 0 px; margin-bottom: 0 px”><span style=”font-weight: bold;”>FOR <span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>RV RALLIES</span> ONLY – https://the-rv-life.com/rv-shows-events/category/rv-rallies/</span&gt;
<li style=”margin-top: 0 px;”><span style=”font-weight: bold;”>FOR YOUR <span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>CITY OR STATE</span> USE ‘SEARCH’ BELOW & TYPE IN YOUR CITY AND/OR STATE AND THEN HIT ENTER.</span>
<li style=”margin-top: 0 px; margin-bottom: 0 px”><span style=”font-weight: bold;”>FOR A <span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>LIST VIEW</span> OR A <span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>MONTH VIEW</span> CLICK ‘VIEW AS’ BELOW RIGHT.</span>

Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezzz!

And, there are < br /> at the end of every line, that the copy/paste just threw out the window, lol, no space to the left of the ‘b’ of course, had to put the space there to get this text to post up.

That part of the thread/question/issue is now handled and documented for anyone else who comes along and has the same issue.

B

UPDATE:

@kerry & @leah … just waiting/looking/wanting you to take a peek at this page … https://the-rv-life.com/rv-shows-events/ … to determine if you see any other way to do what I am doing with the ‘view’ and ‘viewing options’ with the calendar.

Thanks much,
B

It looks good. An idea is to have a row of buttons to draw attention to the different filters. Perhaps something like this:

[ALL RV EVENTS] [RV SHOWS] [RV OPEN HOUSES] [RV RALLIES]

It might be easier to try an install The Events Calendar Category Colors plugin.

It will add a legend and clicking on it will show the respective category.

@kerry & @andy … hey thanks guys, I will check both avenues out! ??