Using core WP categories/tags

[Shaun Woods]

Hello,

Can I use standard WP Categories and Tags with events, instead of the custom ‘event-category’ taxonomy the plug-in uses?

I want to share categories and tags across all post types, including ‘posts’ and ‘events. Is it possible to use default WP Categories or should I create a new custom taxonomy for this?

Thanks for any help you can offer,
Shaun

[Stephen Harris]

It’s possible, but the plug-in won’t do anything with these taxonomies:

function namespace_share_category_with_pages() {
    register_taxonomy_for_object_type( 'post_tag', 'event' );
    register_taxonomy_for_object_type( 'category', 'event' );
}

add_action( 'init', 'namespace_share_category_with_pages', 20);

• This reply was modified 10 months, 1 week ago by  Stephen Harris. Reason: Fixed event CPT name

[Shaun Woods]

Hi Stephen,

Thank-you for your speedy reply and sorry it’s taken me a while to respond – some life-stuff got in the way.

I tried adding that function, but it didn’t have any visible effect – neither Categories nor Tags were selectable from individual Event pages after I added it to functions.php. I checked under Screen Options, to no avail.

I’m not sure if this is what you meant by the plug-in not doing anything with these taxonomies, but I thought I’d mention it, just in case. Failing this, I’ll try adding custom taxonomies across all post types, including events.

[Stephen Harris]

Sorry Shaun, it should have been 'event' as the post type not 'eo_event'. I’ve fixed the original message.

With regards to the plug-in not doing anything with those taxonomies, I mean just that they won’t be displayed by the plug-in (e..g. on event listings or calendars). The templates can be edited to add that, however.

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