Hide events based on tag

you can try to use event categories instead e.g. using shortcode [events_list category=”-1,-2,-3″] where x is the event category id

https://wp-events-plugin.com/documentation/event-search-attributes/

Thank you! I did see that, but I’m unsure how to actually implement it for the default Events page. I tried putting in on the page itself but, as expected, it is overridden by what is in the Events Settings page. So I tried to put it in the Events Settings > Formatting — I put [events_list category=”-1″] above the content in the header, and [/events_list] below the footer content — but that didn’t work. I feel like there’s a really simple solution, I’m just not wrapping my head around it for some reason. What am I missing?

It works if I am putting it in a new page I manually create, but is that the only way I can do it? If so, I guess I can work around that, but I’m trying to avoid changing my existing link structure — I just want to edit the standard Events page.

you need to paste this shortcode [events_list category=”-1″] in your wp page or post.

e.g. in your wp page you can do something like this

[event_search_form]
[events_list category="-1"]

Thanks. Yes I know I can do that on any other page or post. What I’m trying to do is have that on the default Events page — the page that I have selected from Events Settings > Pages > Event List/Archive as the page to display my Events.

What you said works fine if I select “No Events Page” from that list, then I can control what I put on my page and I can use the shortcodes easily. The problem is, the search form doesn’t work unless you do have the page selected in Events Settings > Pages > Event List/Archive. So I wanted a way to keep the search form functionality as well as control the output of my events.

You could get this working by overriding our templates and adding the same sort of thing to the $args variable e.g.

$args['category'] = '-1';

the file you want is templates/templates/events-list.php

https://wp-events-plugin.com/documentation/using-template-files/