Event Type pane missing in create event

wwccscorer
(@wwccscorer)

10 months, 2 weeks ago

In the last week I have upgraded to EM 7.0.5

After the upgrade, the “New event” and “edit event” screens no longer display the event category taxonomy pane to allow me to choose an event type. I added an event on 22/7/2025 which allowed this (TT League round 9) before the upgrade.

I would appreciate your help as I use the event type quite significantly in query loops for various pages.

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joneiseman
(@joneiseman)

10 months, 2 weeks ago

I can set the Event Category when adding/editing an event on both the backend and frontend in EM 7.0.5. Are you referring to something other than the Event Category when you say “event category taxonomy pane”?

Thread Starter wwccscorer
(@wwccscorer)

10 months, 2 weeks ago

I think we’re talking about the same thing. I cannot see the event category selection panel in the right hand side of the editor, only the wordpress post categories. I would normally expect to see the event catgories below them.

Thread Starter wwccscorer
(@wwccscorer)

10 months, 2 weeks ago

I have temporarily enabled frontend editing – I can add event categories using this but it converts my event to classic blocks which is a bit of a nuisance.

I still cannot add them using the back end (gutenberg) editor.
joneiseman
(@joneiseman)

10 months, 2 weeks ago
A workaround for this problem was provided in this 2 years old thread

Once you set EM_GUTENBURG to true, you need to add the following code snippet so that categories and tags can be selected in the event editor.
```
function bsos_gutenberg_categories_fix($args) {
// FIX MISSING CATEGORIES AND TAGS in Event Manager edit mode. 
    $args['show_in_rest'] = true;
    return $args;
}

add_filter('em_ct_categories','bsos_gutenberg_categories_fix');
add_filter('em_ct_tags','bsos_gutenberg_categories_fix');
```
Thread Starter wwccscorer
(@wwccscorer)

10 months, 2 weeks ago

Sorry to be a bit dense – where do I put that code?

Also, I’m a little puzzled as this was working until I upgraded from 6.4 to 7.0.5?

joneiseman
(@joneiseman)

10 months, 2 weeks ago

You can install the Code Snippets plugin and add the code there. Here are instructions on how to do it: https://docs.flycart.org/en/articles/2404915-using-code-snippets-plugin

I don’t know why it stopped working. Maybe it was fixed and then broken again. Anyway it’s working fine for me with the code snippet that I show in my reply. It was necessary to add this 2 years ago to display tags and categories after switching to the Gutenburg editor and I left it there ever since.

Thread Starter wwccscorer
(@wwccscorer)

10 months, 2 weeks ago

Never mind – I worked it out – functions.php? If this is not the right place, please let me know but it seems to work.

Thank you for your help, and sorry for not spotting the original thread and taking up your time.

joneiseman
(@joneiseman)

10 months, 2 weeks ago

Putting it in functions.php in a child theme works fine. If you modify functions.php in the parent theme it will get overwritten when you update the theme.

You can use the Child Theme Configurator plugin to create your child theme.

https://youtu.be/iRGn5Ypm1qw?si=r4kCcKP_0G_3s7d5
joneiseman
(@joneiseman)

9 months, 1 week ago
In the latest release this has changed. Now, you need to change the code snippet to this:
```
function bsos_gutenberg_categories_fix($args) {
// FIX MISSING CATEGORIES AND TAGS in Event Manager edit mode. 
    $args['show_in_rest'] = true;
    return $args;
}

add_filter('em_cpt_categories','bsos_gutenberg_categories_fix');
add_filter('em_cpt_tags','bsos_gutenberg_categories_fix');
```
Thread Starter wwccscorer
(@wwccscorer)

9 months, 1 week ago

Many thanks for the warning. I’ve updated the plugin and made the change.

Regards

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