New Taxonomy on Front-end Event Submission Form

  • WP 4.6.1 BP 2.6.2 EM 5.6.6.1 FC 1.2

    Event Manager is an incredible plugin! I don’t need the pro version, but I will be purchasing it just to support the team behind it! I’m simply having a slight problem customizing it to our needs.

    Eventurist.net

    We have created a new taxonomy “counties” to sort our events in calendars. On the Event Submission Form in the back end, we have the option to use the new taxonomy. However, the front-end form for our users does not display this option.

    I’ve been working through the Attributes to offer a dropdown box with Tennessee counties to choose from. You can see at the bottom of the page, it says “County” with a text box next to it, so I’m on the right track…

    I’m rather new to PHP; I get the basics. If I need to add PHP to a folder, please name the folder. If I need to replace certain aspects of the PHP code, please help me identify what part of the code I need to change.

    I greatly appreciate your time and effort! If I discover what is needed, I will post a step-by-step set of instructions for those who are as new to PHP as I am…

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  • Plugin Support angelo_nwl

    (@angelo_nwl)

    it’s not possible out the box at the moment. it may be possible with custom coding but unfortunately that’s not something we can help with.

    Thread Starter Fantacular Designs

    (@fantacular-designs)

    We already have a taxonomy created and searchable that can be found and used from the back-end of the site. You are telling me that there isn’t a way to add this to the front-end Event Submission Form?

    I would expect that this would be very helpful to others who use Events Manager, to have a secondary taxonomy in which to organize their events…

    We would assume that we could add it to the attribute opportunity in in Events – > Settings — > General – > Event Settings – > Event Attributes/Location Attributes in a similar way we would manually add “Event Categories.”

    I also believe that people create new taxonomies for their WordPress post types quite often. I don’t see why I couldn’t with Events Manager.

    Someone, please help… @netweblogic / @nutsmuggler

    You’d need to create a custom version of this template that incorporates your custom taxonomy:
    /events-manager/templates/forms/event-editor.php.

    This tutorial explains how to create custom templates that are upgrade-safe:
    https://wp-events-plugin.com/documentation/using-template-files/

    You’d also need to add code to validate and save the taxonomy info. That’s quite a lot of in-depth custom code and, Angelo mentioned, it’s unfortunately beyond the scope of the support we’re able to give.

    Thread Starter Fantacular Designs

    (@fantacular-designs)

    @caimin_nwl

    I greatly appreciate that you gave me a direction to head. I didn’t realize how complex my request was. We are gathering a bit of help in completing this part of the project…

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