Hey oblax.
I’m having the same problem.
Did you ever figure out how to solve it?
Thank you very much for your swift response Angelo.
The post you pointed me to, was exactly what I was looking for!
Suppose stepping out of my comfort zone and diving into the template structure is the best way to achieve true integration.
To get it working I first had to turn off formatting for events categories.
The code above is from my theme category.php template. I copied that template to my child theme and renamed it to taxonomy-event-categories.php, as the plugin author suggests here:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-events-manager-single-category-template
I then replaced the above code snippet with this:
<div class="col-sm-8 col-md-9">
<?php
global $post, $EM_Category, $wp_query;
$EM_Cat = em_get_category($wp_query->queried_object->term_id); ?>
<?php echo $EM_Cat->output('#_CATEGORYNEXTEVENTS'); ?>
</div>
<div class="col-sm-4 col-md-3 sidebar">
<?php get_template_part('templates/sidebar') ?>
</div>
Once again, thank you so much for your help Angelo.