[Plugin: WP FullCalendar] Choosing Event category by WP Category

  • I am pretty new with this whole WordPress stuff and plugins, but I’ll try to explain my situation as good as I can.

    I have a wP Site which has three categories (Sports, Events and About). In the header I have three hard coded menulink buttons which points to these categories (i.e. <a href="https://localhost/www/category/sports/"> ) Well – Check out the site:
    https://www.team-sports.fi/www baby:carrot

    What I can do is that I can catch the current category to a string using PHP using this code:
    <?php $categories = get_the_category(); $my_current_cat = $categories[0]->cat_name; ?>

    Now the what I WANT to do is…

    When user clicks the Sports button and opens a page for Sports category, I would like to show a calendar events only from the category also named as Sports. How I could see it to work is something like: <?php echo WP_FullCalendar::calendar($args,<strong> $my_current_cat</strong>);?> but I know that it doesnt work like this.

    At the moment it shows events from every category before a user choses the event category (From that pulldown menu) which they want to see.

    I am using PHP to display calendar object and events comes from The Events Manager.

    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/wp-fullcalendar/

Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total)

  • would like this feature as well, a user shouldn’t have to filter manually on a category page

    Plugin Author Marcus (aka @msykes)

    (@netweblogic)

    I’ll explain how it works for both Events Manager and normal posts:

    if you’re using events manager then you should be able to do this using category=”xx” in the shortcode as described here – https://wp-events-plugin.com/documentation/event-search-attributes/

    if using normal posts, you should be able to use the category name of your custom taxonomy (by default, also ‘category’, but e.g. could be ‘post_tag’ for tags). in this case you also use e.g. category=”x” but for post types other than EM you can only choose one category where X is the id for the category

    hope that helps!

    spchile

    (@spchile)

    Hello, WPFullcalendar looks great! thanks a lot.
    Althoug I can’t make it work in displaying a single category in a page.
    I’m not using Events Manager, I just want to use Fullcalendar as navigation to a specific category.
    I had tried:
    [fullcalendar category=”xname”]
    [fullcalendar type=”post” category=”xname”]
    and other similar but the result is the entire categories list in the menu or just the blank calendar with no entries at all.
    Please help!

    Thanks in advance!

    spchile

    (@spchile)

    Hello again,
    OK, it works that way:
    [fullcalendar type=”post” category=”29″]
    But, I still have the full list of Categories in the menu.
    I need to make it dissapear.
    Any clue is welcome.
    Thanks in advance.

    spchile

    (@spchile)

    Ok,
    The newbie again.
    I’m not sure if this is the best solution -it could be helpful for someone- to avoid the list menu, in MAIN.CSS

    I add this line:
    #wpfc-calendar-search, .ui-selectmenu-menu, #wpfc-calendar-search select, .ui-selectmenu { display:none;}

    And commented /* */ the whole selectMenu css lines.

    If anyone knows a better solution please tell us.

    Thanks for the plugin again.

Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total)
  • The topic ‘[Plugin: WP FullCalendar] Choosing Event category by WP Category’ is closed to new replies.