[Plugin: Event Organiser] Event listing by date and category styling

Got it sorted. Amended the archive template so that it displayed the date only on event date change (after all it’s already sorted by date), then got the category from the term list and stripped the tags from it.

//Events have their own 'event-category' taxonomy. Get list of categories this event is in.
$category = strip_tags( get_the_term_list( $wp_query->post->ID, 'event-category', '', ', ', '' ) );

I can now append the category to the css class to style the line appropriately

Spot on with how to handle the grouping of events – this is how the agenda widget does it too. I’ve explained in more detail how to do this on one of the forum posts here.

For the category classes, you could also use $terms = get_the_terms(get_the_ID(),'event-category') inside the loop to retrieve the post’s terms. Then extract an array of term-slugs with wp_list_pluck, and finally implode the array of slugs into a space delimited string. This method is probably preferable:

$terms = get_the_terms(get_the_ID(),’event-category’)
$slugs = wp_list_pluck($terms,’slug’);
$class = implode(‘ ‘,$slugs);

(you might need to perform some checks in case $terms is empty.

Thanks Stephen. All your feedback to myself and others on the forum have been a great help.

Cheers.