formatting the show events by category page

Hi,

“events list by category”

you can used shortcode [events_list category=”x”] where x is the event categories id; to show Event Categores ID, click Screen Options > click ID then click apply

also, to display Category Image you need to use #_CATEGORYIMAGE or #_CATEGORYNOTES at settings > formatting > event categories > Single category page format

https://wp-events-plugin.com/documentation/shortcodes/
https://wp-events-plugin.com/documentation/placeholders/

which page are you trying to format, your single category page, or the list of categories (or other)? not sure which page you’re referring to specifically

I’m trying to create a single category page like the demo page:
https://demo.wp-events-plugin.com/events/categories/rhythm-blues/

My categories id’s are not displaying. The column is empty.
If I take the tag_id parameter from the URL (https://localhost/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?action=edit&taxonomy=event-categories&tag_ID=130&post_type=event) and I use that for the shortcode-[events_list category=”130″], where do I place the shortcode? Do I need to create a separate single category page for each category?

I am unable to display an image or category description that I have uploaded to the category.

have you tried Settings > Pages > Event Categories > Override with Formats ? or create a new php file within your theme directory then rename as taxonomy-events-categories.php and paste this snippet ->

<?php get_header(); ?>
 <div class="post-inner">
 <?php
  global $post, $EM_Category, $wp_query;
     $EM_Cat = em_get_category($wp_query->queried_object->term_id);
       <h1><?php echo $EM_Cat->output('#_CATEGORYNAME'); ?></h1><br/>
       <p><?php echo $EM_Cat->output('#_CATEGORYNOTES'); ?></p><br/>
       <h3>Next Events</h3><br/>
       <div>
        <p><?php echo $EM_Cat->output('#_CATEGORYNEXTEVENTS'); ?></p>
       </div>
 </div>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Thanks for your help.
I tried the Settings > Pages > Event Categories > Override with Formats and it doesn’t seem to make any difference.
I created the taxonomy-events-categories.php and it returns all the events with #_CATEGORYNEXTEVENTS and also #_CATEGORYALLEVENTS. Neither #_CATEGORYNAME nor #_CATEGORYNOTES return any results.
I also noticed that when I add a new category in the manager it receives an id, but when I refresh the page, the id disappears.
Maybe all this has something to do with my theme? I’m using a child of Ascetica?
I see also that the events are entered as regular posts and the “single category” link returns a regular wp list of posts page. Maybe I should just create a custom post page for this, but I would like to know why the original isn’t working for me.

might be a theme or your other plugins are causing this; you can try the following steps to confirm:

Have you tried to temporarily:

– deactivating all other plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).
– switching to the default theme to rule out any theme-specific problems

I deactivated all the other plugins and switched to the twenty ten theme and it looks like everything is working fine. So I guess now I have to find what plugin or theme was causing the problem.
Thanks for your help.

For anyone else who has had this problem, I discovered that the problem had to do with the theme. I asked the theme framework developer, Justin Tadlock, if it was something that could be resolved and he provided me with the following explanation and solution:

Based on what I’ve been able to gather from the two pages you linked and the code in the plugin, is that:

1) It’s filtering the wrong template hook (this will also break with any theme that has a taxonomy template).

2) It needs to filter the template with a higher priority.

So, in events-manager/classes/em-category-taxonomy.php, find these two lines of code:
add_filter(‘archive_template’,array(‘EM_Category_Taxonomy’,’template’));
add_filter(‘category_template’,array(‘EM_Category_Taxonomy’,’template’));
Replace them with:
add_filter( ‘taxonomy_template’, array( ‘EM_Category_Taxonomy’, ‘template’ ), 99 );

thanks for updating and sharing the solution.

I had the same issue. The fix above worked for me.

To get Tags to work I also had to make the same edit on em-tag-taxonomy.php

with:

add_filter( ‘taxonomy_template’, array( ‘EM_Tag_Taxonomy’, ‘template’ ), 99 );

Hopefully this won’t break anything else!

It would be great if this fix could be included in a future release of the plug-in.

Justin is right that we reference the wrong template, but this is done on purpose and can be disabled on the settings page :

If you want to use your theme templates, then you need to disable ‘override with templates’ in Events > Settings > Pages > Event Categories/Tags, then we don’t interfere in those filters.

I couldn’t find ‘override with templates’ – but there is an option to ‘Override with Formats?’ which I tried disabling but it didn’t work.

Only avir673’s fix seems to work.

oops, yes it’s ‘override with formats’

I’ll check @avir673’s suggestion, looking at it now, it may even be a better alternative to what we h ave now anyway.