Adding Category to Event List Shortcode Template

[Neil Moeller]

Can you help me out with how to add the category to the output of the event the comes from the event list shortcode?

I am using the following, the events are grouped by date, just want to add the categories after the title of each event. Hopefully something like this ‘Parent Category > Child Category’. Thanks for your help!


<?php
/**
* Add this to your theme for it to take affect.
*/
global $eo_event_loop,$eo_event_loop_args;

//Date % Time format for events
$date_format = get_option('date_format');
$time_format = get_option('time_format');

//The list ID / classes
$id = ( $eo_event_loop_args['id'] ? 'id="'.$eo_event_loop_args['id'].'"' : '' );
$classes = $eo_event_loop_args['class'];

$current_date = false;

?>

<?php if( $eo_event_loop->have_posts() ): ?>

    <?php while( $eo_event_loop->have_posts() ): $eo_event_loop->the_post(); ?>

        <?php 
        if( $current_date != eo_get_the_start('Ymd') ){

            if( $current_date ){
                //End previous group
                echo '';
            }

            //Start new group
            //echo '<h3>'.eo_get_the_start('jS F Y').'</h3>';
            echo '<h3>'.eo_get_the_start('l, F jS, Y').'</h3>';
            echo '
';

            $current_date = eo_get_the_start('Ymd');

        }

        //Generate HTML classes for this event
        $eo_event_classes = eo_get_event_classes(); 

        //For non-all-day events, include time format
        $format = ( eo_is_all_day() ? $date_format : $date_format.' '.$time_format );
        ?>

        <li class="<?php echo esc_attr(implode(' ',$eo_event_classes)); ?>" >
            " title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>" ><?php the_title(); ?> <?php echo __('on','eventorganiser') . ' '.eo_get_the_start($format); ?>
        

    <?php endwhile; ?>

<?php elseif( ! empty($eo_event_loop_args['no_events']) ): ?>

<ul id="<?php echo esc_attr($id);?>" class="<?php echo esc_attr($classes);?>" > 
    <li class="eo-no-events" > <?php echo $eo_event_loop_args['no_events']; ?> 

<?php endif; ?>

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Neil,

You can use the standard WordPress api. Event categories are simply terms that belong to the event-category taxonomy. See get_the_term_list() and get_the_terms().

Regarding formatting the terms as Parent > Child, there is no ‘easy’ way of doing this because events, in general, don’t have one hierarchy of terms. E.g:

| - Cat A - | - Child Cat A-1
|           | - Child Cat A-2
|
| - Cat B - | - Child Cat B-1
            | - Child Cat B-2

Assuming, that events do have a single hierarchy, the best thing to do is to loop through the array returned by get_the_terms() to pull out the ‘youngest’ term, and then use get_ancestors()

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