Customize submit event form – locations and categories as checkboxes?

Hi,

Do you mean on the front-end of the site on in the admin area?

Silly me, of course I forgot to define that.

I mean on the front-end.

To do that you’d need to edit the template at /events-manager/templates/templates/event-search.php. You might want to take a look at this tutorial which shows you how to use custom templates in an upgrade safe way:

https://wp-events-plugin.com/documentation/using-template-files/

Given what you want to do, this might be a better function to use for your category checkboxes:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/wp_category_checklist

Thanks for the advice! I get that copying template files from A to B. That’s simple enough and I can do that.

I looked at the events-search.php file and it’s like I’m reading Hebrew – no idea what it means. Could you ellaborate a little bit?

If you only want to edit the category and location dropdowns, you can just edit the /search/categories.php and /search/locations.php files within the /events-manager/templates/templates/ folder. These two files are pulled into the main search page template mentioned in my earlier reply.

In the case of categories, you may want to switch from using wp_dropdown_categories to using wp_category_checklist.

Thanks!

Unfortunately I don’t have the time (or interest) to try to figure this out myself. I’ll just hire a developer to do it for me.

Hello Caimin,

Thanks for the posts.
I am trying to do the same as Kantti.

in categories.php, at the line :
wp_dropdown_categories(array( 'hide_empty' => 0, 'orderby' =>'name', 'name' => 'category', 'hierarchical' => true, 'taxonomy' => EM_TAXONOMY_CATEGORY, 'selected' => $args['category'], 'show_option_none' => $args['categories_label'], 'class'=>'em-events-search-category'));

I have replaced wp_dropdown_categories with wp_category_checklist

As a result, the category aspect of the search-event module has disappeared.

I have tried to take some parameters out of the line like ‘hide_empty’ and other but nothing happend.

Do you have any suggestion ?

Thanks !
Alex