Widget categories & venues dropdown not using permalinks

[Matthew Tarzwell]

Hi Stephen,
Not sure when this started, but the widget dropdown now links to the ‘ugly’ permalinks, not the pretty ones. Not showing the widgets as a dropdown seems to work fine. Thanks,

Oliver

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Oliver,

This has always been this way, and is consistent with WordPress’ default category widget.

It’s possible to improve on this, however.

[Matthew Tarzwell]

Ah. Hmm – this completely breaks on my site for some reason, even if I save the permalinks. Am I doing something wrong?

[Stephen Harris]

It 404s? Can you provide a link? (Does WordPress’ category dropdown not work either? It uses similar code).

[Matthew Tarzwell]

Yes, it 404s on the dropdown, but not if I change it to a list.

Click on ‘Sidebar’.

You can see it here: http://inside.tru.ca/events

• This reply was modified 9 years ago by  Matthew Tarzwell.

[Matthew Tarzwell]

I should mention – the default WordPress ones work fine. You can see them at inside.tru.ca -> also click on ‘Sidebar’.

[Stephen Harris]

Thanks Oliver,

I see what’s happening here: it’s using the ID rather than slug, which is causing the problem. Normally the user is redirected to the pretty URL automatically, but here the user is being directed to ?event-category=<id> instead of ?event-category=<slug> and so it’s 404ing.

The widget hasn’t changed in 4 months, so I wonder if WordPress core has changed the output of wp_dropdown_categories().

I’ll release a fix for this shortly, but you can immediately fix it with the following:

add_filter( 'eventorganiser_widget_event_categories_dropdown_args', function( $args ){
    $args['value_field'] = 'slug';
    return $args;
 } );

[Matthew Tarzwell]

Thanks Stephen. No rush on my end – I’ll just wait until the fix is in.

Sorry – I could have been more clear with the description as to what was happening; it’s been a busy day. Busy week.

[Stephen Harris]

3.0.4 has just been released, so this should now be fixed.

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