Question

I have about a dozen Event Categories and 1 Post Category

When I use get_categories($args) where:

$args=array(
  'orderby' => 'name',
  'order' => 'ASC',
  'hide_empty' => 0
);

I get the Post Category (which I want) and all the Event Categories (which I don’t want).

I can’t quite figure out the parameters to pass get_categories in order to see categories associated with posts only and not events. I’ve read a little bit about using get_terms() to do this and tried:

$args = array('type'=> 'post', 'order' => 'ASC', 'hide_empty' => 0 );
$taxonomies = array('category');
$terms = get_terms( $taxonomies, $args);

but this gives me the exact same results – my 1 post category and my dozen event categories.

Mark

Answer 1

Turns out All-In-One Event Calendar has an option to include/exclude Event Categories with Post Categories.

Mine was set to include. I don’t know if that’s the default or not.

Once I turned it off, the following:

get_categories($args=array'orderby' => 'name', 'order' => 'ASC','hide_empty' => 0);

gave me the Post Categories as I wanted.

Thanks very much for all the help, this was most instructive.