Shortcodes in widget: I need to exclude category

[Steffen Innonet]

Can you tell me what the code looks like, if I want to exclude a category udsing shortcodes. Excluding by ID, that is.

Best regards

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Steffen,

Apologies for the delay in getting back to you on this!

Unfortunately this isn’t possible with the [eo_events] shortcode. For something like this its probably easiest to create your own shortcode.

The following should do roughly what you want.

Usage: [events_excluded_cats exclude_cats="1,12,18"]

add_shortcode( 'events_excluded_cats', 'innonet_events_excluded_cats_handler' );
function innonet_events_excluded_cats_handler( $atts, $content = null ){

         $query = array( 
              'numberposts'=>5, 
              'event_start_after'=>'today', 
         );

         if( !empty( $atts['exclude_cats'] ) ){
                 $exclude = array_map( 'intval', explode( ',', $atts['exclude_cats'] ) );
                 $query['tax_query'] = array(
                array(
                    'taxonomy' => 'event-category',
                    'operator' => 'NOT IN',
                    'terms' => $exclude,
                    'field' => 'id',
                )
                );
         }

       //Return mark-up of list (can use eventorganiser_list_event for simplicity).
       return eventorganiser_list_events( $query, array(), 0 );
}

[Steffen Innonet]

Thanks for the reply Stephen

This is what my code in my text widget looks like:

[eo_events numberposts=”6″ exclude_category=”93″ eo_events showpastevents=false] %start{j. F}% – %event_title% [/eo_events]

Se kalender

So my question is; In what file do I insert your piece of php code and will I just throw in [events_excluded_cats exclude_cats=”1,12,18″] in the above code in the widget as well?

Thanks

[Dario]

Hey Steffen,

You can add that code to several different parts of the WordPress back-end such as in the functions.php file or in a custom plug-in.

Have a read of this post which explains it all: http://wp-event-organiser.com/blog/tutorial/where-should-i-put-code-from-the-tutorials/

[Steffen Innonet]

Ok. Thanks. I´ll put the code in my functions.php

But what about the little bit of short code? So what about the short code – will I just throw in [events_excluded_cats exclude_cats=”1,12,18″] in the widget as well?

[Steffen Innonet]

Could anyone of you guys answer my last question on this thread about the bit of short code in the widget please?

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Steffen,

Apologies, your reply slipped my radar…

[events_excluded_cats exclude_cats="1,12,18"] would be used instead of the [eo_events] shortcode

However, if you want to use the template tags you’ll need to make the following alterations:

Just before return eventorganiser_list_events( $query, array(), 0 ); put

$args = array(
            'class'=>'eo-events eo-events-shortcode',
            'template'=>$content,
            'no_events'=>'',
            'type'=>'shortcode',
        );

and replace

 eventorganiser_list_events( $query, array(), 0 );

with

eventorganiser_list_events( $query, $args, 0 );`

I’ve created this gist with an update version of the above code.

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