Using Additional Custom Taxonomies

at the moment you need to do custom coding to add those filter

eg. https://wp-events-plugin.com/tutorials/creating-custom-event-search-attributes/

Hi Angelo,
but in this pastebin.com/ you say that EM is perfectly able to automatically register new taxonomies as searchable within itself (without the need to create a custom event search attribute ..), in fact, I tried to create some new taxonomies such as “post_category” and “custom_category“, and the result is as follows:

function my_em_own_taxonomy_register(){
    register_taxonomy_for_object_type('custom_category',EM_POST_TYPE_EVENT);
}
add_action('init','my_em_own_taxonomy_register',100);

WORKING: [events_list custom_category="featured"]

function my_em_own_taxonomy_register(){
    register_taxonomy_for_object_type('post_category',EM_POST_TYPE_EVENT);
}
add_action('init','my_em_own_taxonomy_register',100);

NOT WORKING: [events_list post_category="featured"]
WORKING: [events_list post_post_category="featured"]

This makes me think there is a kind of regex inside the plugin that should turn “category” into “post_category” (am I wrong?, according to what is written in the guide it would seem so…)

PS in particular I refer to the paragraphs “Exceptions: Post Tags and Categories,” “Using Custom Taxonomies in Searches”

• This reply was modified 7 years, 7 months ago by Raruto.

Do you have any other custom post types running?

Hi caimin,
I did some further tests (only with the plugin EM running) and I came to the following result.

Due to the reasons explained by your article I already had these two functions in the functions.php:

function my_em_posttype_fix(){
	register_taxonomy_for_object_type('category',EM_POST_TYPE_EVENT);
	register_taxonomy_for_object_type('category',EM_POST_TYPE_LOCATION);
}
add_action('init','my_em_posttype_fix',100);

function my_em_posttype_cat_default($EM_Object){
	global $post;
	if( $post->post_type == EM_POST_TYPE_EVENT || $post->post_type == EM_POST_TYPE_LOCATION ){
		$categories = get_the_category();
		if( count($categories) == 0 ){
			//assign a category to this
			wp_set_object_terms($post->ID, 'uncategorized','category');
		}
	}
}
add_action('template_redirect','my_em_posttype_cat_default', 1,1);

Editing the first function, as follows, produces the duplication of the word “post” (or “post_post_category”, as described in the previous post):

function my_em_posttype_fix(){
  $labels = array(
        'name' => 'post_category',
        'singular_name' => 'post_category',
        'search_items' => 'Search post_category',
        'all_items' => 'All post_category',
        'parent_item' => 'Parent post_category',
        'parent_item_colon' => 'Parent post_category:',
        'edit_item' => 'Edit post_category',
        'update_item' => 'Update post_category',
        'add_new_item' => 'Add New post_category',
        'new_item_name' => 'New post_category',
        'menu_name' => 'post_category Categories',
    );
    register_taxonomy('post_category',array(EM_POST_TYPE_EVENT), array(
        'hierarchical' => true,
        'labels' => $labels,
        'query_var' => true
    ));

    register_taxonomy_for_object_type('category',EM_POST_TYPE_EVENT);
    register_taxonomy_for_object_type('category',EM_POST_TYPE_LOCATION);
}
add_action('init','my_em_posttype_fix',100);

From what I have been able to see, this issue specifically afflicts the category “post_category” (eg. with the “custom_category” there are no problems in keeping active the last two lines: “register_taxonomy_for_object_type”)

PS Can you confirm me that I can not use the default wordpress category “category” as EM search attribute? (if not modifying the plugin core..)

• This reply was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by Raruto.

Which version of Events Manager and WordPress are you using?

“Events Manager 5.7.3” and “WordPress 4.8.1”

I also did a test from a fresh new install getting the same result..