[Plugin: The Events Calendar] Does category have to be named Events?

  • Does the category for The Events Calendar have to be called “events”?

    I have the Events Calendar up and running on my client’s site (in progress). You can see the calendar at https://thecenterofsuccess.com/category/events/, it’s working fine. However, my client wants the top menu button for the calendar say “Event Calendar” instead of “Events.” I went to the Categories page, changed the category that events comes from to be named Event Calendar, and the page broke and I got an error. I did not change the slug, nor did I change the category ID. Just the display name of the category. As soon as I change it, the calendar will not display.

    So – is it not possible to change the category name (and thereby, the menu button text)?

    Thanks in advance,
    Kym

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  • We have an events category that’s a normal category, not necessarily scheduled events. We didn’t want the calendar taking over the category.

    I found that if I opened the-events-calendar.class.php and change line 8 from:
    const CATEGORYNAME = 'Events';

    to

    const CATEGORYNAME = 'Calendar';

    It seems to work just fine.

    Thread Starter the_webscaper

    (@the_webscaper)

    phazei – thank you so much! I saw that in the future plans for the plugin, they will support additional categories (yay!) but this will get me through for the time being. Appreciate the response!

    DitesVERT

    (@ditesvert)

    Not working for me… Is anyother work around possible?

    A category named events doesn’t look to great on a french website! ??

    DitesVERT

    (@ditesvert)

    Update : This solution will work if you turn of the Pretty URLs option.

    How ever I could not get it to work with accents (événements)! Anyone?

    Can this be used to have different categories in the calendar?

    Hi Mr. Bishop, there is a post about this here.

    Is a temp solution…

    Hope it helps you.

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