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hoffman
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February 13, 2015 at 8:04 am
Hi, quick question, on the category selector for the list view template how can I change the order of those categories? (client request…) http://screencast.com/t/pwvjqgzPxqw4
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Sidney Harrell
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February 13, 2015 at 12:08 pm
It’s in line 24 of plugins/ee4-events-table-template/templates/espresso-events-table-template.template.php. You’ll want to copy that to uploads/espresso/templates first before you modify it.
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hoffman
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February 13, 2015 at 4:04 pm
note that I have a different template that loads which was suggested here: https://eventespresso.com/topic/list-view-template-shows-register-for-events-that-have-no-registration/
Can you give me a bit more information about how to correct the category order, thanks very much
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Sidney Harrell
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February 17, 2015 at 3:48 pm
Oh, yeah, you see on line 25 of Dean’s gist file? That’s where it’s getting the categories. And then line 27 is where it’s looping over the array of categories. You would want to go in between those lines and rearrange the order of the categories. How did you want them arranged? You might want to throw some debugging code in there like this: https://gist.github.com/sidharrell/54c9cf75f6328f35c4b3 to take a look at the category objects that are retrieved, so you’ll know what you have to work with as far as criteria for resorting the array.
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hoffman
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February 19, 2015 at 9:00 am
Is there no easier way to modify these categories? The client doesn’t like the order they appear in the drop down and modifying this code is a little out of my scope.
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Tony
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February 19, 2015 at 12:52 pm
How do you want to order the categories?
Then are currently ordered by category name in ascending order.
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hoffman
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February 19, 2015 at 3:38 pm
the client wants to be able to choose based on what they consider more important or which are more frequent e.g. they want ‘Process’ first then the Information events then the others. But it depends on how hard this is to achieve.
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Dean
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February 20, 2015 at 4:55 am
Hi,
Changing the order is going to need a code change regardless. By default it spits out the categories in name (A-Z) order.
Changing the order to something like Z-A or by category ID (e.g. 1-10 or 10-1) would not require that much coding, simply just by changing the $args array a little bit.
(http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_terms)
If your client needs something more than that, such as a specific order, then the coding becomes more challenging, especially if they are planning on adding/changing/deleting categories in the future.
It can still be done, but would require code specific to your use case.
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