Hook in to event category

Hi Richard,

What are you trying to achieve?

Guido

Hi Guido

I have a hook that adds a custom menu to posts from specific categories and would like to include event categories too.

Thanks
Richard

Hi,

You cannot add the event cats to your custom menu via the menu page in dashboard?

If this is not what you mean or want, you should add your hook here so I can take a look.

Guido

Hi Guido

Here’s the code i’m using in the theme functions not via the menu.

add_action('wp_footer', 'ava_after_main_title_mod');
function ava_after_main_title_mod() {
	if ( in_category('1') || in_category('2') || in_category('3') || in_category('4') || in_category('5') || in_category('6') || in_category('7') ){
	echo "
<div id='custom-fullwidth'>";
	echo do_shortcode("[shortcode]");
	echo "</div>
";
}
}

Richard

Hi Richard,

As far as I know you should use has_term() for that:

if( has_term( 'your-event-category', 'event_cat' ) ) {
    // do something
}

event_cat is the taxonomy name that my plugin uses.

More explanation about this here.

Guido

Hi Guido

With a slight tweak that works within my existing hook.

Spot on thank you.
Richard

Hi,

Great, because I haven’t tested it myself (yet).

So I will mark this topic “resolved”.

Guido

Hiya

Yes here’s the code in case needed.

add_action('wp_footer', 'ava_after_main_title_mod');
function ava_after_main_title_mod() {
	if ( in_category('1') || in_category('2') || in_category('3') || in_category('4') || in_category('5') || in_category('6') || in_category('beauty')
|| has_term( 'category-1', 'event_cat' ) || has_term( 'category-2', 'event_cat' ) || has_term( 'category-3', 'event_cat' ) || has_term( 'category-4', 'event_cat' ) || has_term( 'category-5', 'event_cat' ) || has_term( 'category-6', 'event_cat' ) || has_term( 'category-7', 'event_cat' ) ){
	echo "
<div id='custom-fullwidth'>";
	echo do_shortcode("[shortcode]
	[/av_submenu]");
	echo "</div>
";
}
}

Richard