Custom query to get events from multiple categories

  • Resolved dgfrench

    (@dgfrench)


    7 years, 10 months ago

    I am using The Events Calendar with The7 theme which utilizes Visual Composer.

    and have been able to construct the following query to take care of only displaying events from today forward:

    post_type=tribe_events&post_status=publish&_EventStartDate=>$today&orderby=_EventStartDate&order=asc

    but how do I specify which event categories are displayed?

    For example, I only want to display events from categories labeled Entertainment and Concerts

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar/

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  • nicosantos

    (@nicosantos)

    7 years, 9 months ago

    Hi @dgfrench,

    Thanks for reaching out! I’m not much familiarized with Visual Composer, so not sure about the query you built, but I can tell you about how to query events by category.

    Event Category is a custom taxonomy (tribe_events_cat) and can be queried using a tax query like shown in the docs → https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Taxonomy_Parameters

    Hope that helps,
    Best,
    Nico

    Thread Starter dgfrench

    (@dgfrench)

    7 years, 5 months ago

    Thank you Nico!

    I’m still not having any luck with multiple categories but this works just fine:

    post_type=tribe_events&tribe_events_cat=featured&post_status=publish

    How can I pull from ‘featured’ AND ‘entertainment’?

    geoffgraham

    (@geoffgraham)

    7 years, 3 months ago

    Hey there! Sorry, this thread must have fallen off our radar!

    You can try using an array to call multiple categories:

    post_type=tribe_events&tribe_events_cat=array(featured, entertainment)&post_status=publish

    Cheers!
    Geoff

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 3 months ago by geoffgraham.
    Thread Starter dgfrench

    (@dgfrench)

    7 years, 3 months ago

    It’s doesn’t work so I’m guessing that Visual Composer requires a different format.

    Does anyone have experience with TEC AND VC?

    shelbelliott

    (@shelbelliott)

    7 years, 3 months ago

    Hi @dgfrench,

    Unfortunately we can’t support interactions with other plugins, but we’ll leave this one open for a bit in case of someone in the community who might be able to help. 🙂

    Best,

    Shelby 🙂

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