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September 4, 2017 at 8:38 am

Hi there,

1) create “private” pages and just have a link to the sliding scale event where I want it – but making the page “private” makes it inactive.

It shows as inactive in EE because it’s private, it’s still available but only to logged in users (it works exactly the same way as standard private ‘posts’) so I don’t think that will work anyway as I’m assuming your users don’t sing into the site to register onto the events?

I have 3+ categories I need to show at any one point so I can’t just do the “ESPRESSO_CALENDAR event_category_id=your_category_id show_expired=true] (unless I’m missing something).

Would it work if you could assign the 3 categories to show on the calendar? So then you’d just exclude the ‘private’ events from those categories?

If you can use: [ESPRESSO_CALENDAR event_category_id=category-1,category-2,category-3 show_expired=true]

Or you can also use a parent category, say ‘public’ and assign the categories you want to display on the calendar to that parent category, then you can just use:

[ESPRESSO_CALENDAR event_category_id=parent-category-slug show_expired=true]

To show any child events.

September 5, 2017 at 2:31 am

Do I write the name of the category ID or the number?

Its best to use the slug, however one thing I forgot to mention above is to wrap your slugs in single quotes:

[ESPRESSO_CALENDAR event_category_id='first-category,second-category']

You can find the slugs for your categories in:

Event Espresso -> Events -> Categories (tab)

Each category will show you a shortcode with a category_slug parameter set, that’s the slug for that category.

September 5, 2017 at 11:01 am

The feature was added in version 3.2.11 of the calendar, are you using that version?

Can you post the current shortcode you are using and the slugs for the categories you want to include here, please?

September 5, 2017 at 11:57 am

Hi there,

I checked and your site has version 3.2.10.p of the calendar. You will need to update to version 3.2.11.p of the calendar before you can use the features that Tony mentioned earlier.

September 5, 2017 at 2:35 pm

Which menu? (We have a couple)

If you mean the dropdown filter you can use:

#ee-category-submit option[value='{category-slug}'] {
    display: none;
}

For the catgory legend links you can use:

#ee-category-legend-ul .ee-category-li-{category-id} { {
    display: none;
}

You’ll need to change the placeholders in the above to match the slug and ID of the category you want to remove but that will remove it from view.