Category Widget – Show Post Counts

[scott stafstrom]

Is there a way to add post counts as an option to the Event Category Widget? I want to avoid having my site visitors clicking on a category with no current events. I have been working on adding post counts by using some of the code from wp-core widget.php and have not had success. Basically I would like to duplicate the standard WordPress Category Widget options in the Event Category Widget. Thank you for any help.

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Scott,

I’ll look into this and get back to you. Currently events are “counted” (WordPress by default counts how many posts appear in a taxonomy). But by default this counts the number of distinct events (as opposed to dates/occurrences) and includes past events too. That’s largely due to the fact that the plug-in has never made this a feature so as to alter WordPress default behaviour on this.

[scott stafstrom]

Thank you Stephen, for your reply and for taking a look at the possibility.
Scott

[Stephen Harris]

If displaying a list of categories there is a filter (see source that allows you to show the event count. (if using a drop-down, there is also a filter, but this is currently incorrect in that the the name of the filter is wrong, and will be fixed int the next update).

add_filter( 'eventorganiser_widget_event_categories_args', 'scott_display_event_category_count' );
function scott_display_event_category_count( $args ){
    $args['show_count'] = 1;//Set show_count to 1.
    return $args;
 }

However, as a noted above, this will count distinct ‘events’ (i.e. not occurrences) and will count past events too. Since this count is used in the category admin page, it may be confusing to change this behavior. But if I do¹ I’ll change it to count events according to the plug-in settings (i.e. whether or not past events are shown and whether occurrences of recurring events are grouped). Regardless I’ll provide a way of over-riding how the events are counted for any given category.

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1. Since 2.4 is about to be released (today/tomorrow). I think this change will be held back until 2.5. The bug regarding the filter name will be fixed in 2.4. ↩

• This reply was modified 10 years, 6 months ago by  Stephen Harris.
• This reply was modified 10 years, 6 months ago by  Stephen Harris.

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