John Sundberg

I did a write-up on my blog that explains what I did in detail to make this work, but here’s the short of it.

Download and open wp-content/plugins/events-manager/widgets/em-events.php for editing and add the following line at approximately line 15:

'category' => 0,// this adds 'category' to the widget's function

Then add the following five lines at approximately line 80, in between the </p> tag for “title” and the <p> tag for “limit”:

<p><!-- this adds the category option to the widget's form -->
			<label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('category'); ?>"><?php _e('Category ID','dbem'); ?>: </label>
			<input type="text" id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('category'); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name('category'); ?>" size="3" value="<?php echo $instance['category']; ?>" /><br />
			<label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('category'); ?>"><?php _e('(separate multiple IDs by commas, or use "0" for all categories)','dbem'); ?> </label>
		</p>

Save, FTP back to your server, and you should be set.

The default setting is “0” for all categories, add one ID to show one category, and separate multiple categories with commas.

Check out my blog post for more details.