{"id":55,"date":"2021-10-05T08:34:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T08:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simplewpevents.com\/docs\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=55"},"modified":"2023-12-29T12:33:47","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T12:33:47","slug":"how-to-add-new-wp-event-category","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/simplewpevents.com\/docs\/wpevents\/how-to-add-new-wp-event-category\/","title":{"rendered":"How to add a new Simple WP Events category?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You can use categories to sort and group your events into different sections. It is one of the default taxonomies in WordPress. Simple WP Events gives you an easy way to add them to your WordPress site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\"><strong>How to add a new Simple WP Events category?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>To add the events categories, <\/strong>Navigate to <strong>WP Dashboard <\/strong>&gt; <strong>Events &gt; Categories<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/paper-attachments.dropbox.com\/s_DBB3520F20E20AC3E8059B8B900DA0B9DF1D1507EC4B1EF4CA061F2FEC820BF4_1627928893559_image.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Add new category<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>You can see some fields under <strong>Add new category. <\/strong>From here, you can add a new category for Simple WP Events.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Name: <\/strong>Add your desired category name.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Slug<\/strong>: Add slug here. This comes after the domain extension.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Parent Category: <\/strong>Select the parent category from the dropdown. You can add a parent category if it already exists. Or you can select the &#8216;none&#8217; option if you do not need to add a parent category.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Description:<\/strong> Add your event category description here. Enter the description which can describe your category well.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>All done! Now, hit <strong>Add New Category <\/strong>button to save all settings. A new Simple WP Events category is added successfully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/paper-attachments.dropbox.com\/s_DBB3520F20E20AC3E8059B8B900DA0B9DF1D1507EC4B1EF4CA061F2FEC820BF4_1627929624777_image.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After adding a new category &#8211; you can review it on the screen. From here, you can edit to update category information or delete it if required.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/paper-attachments.dropbox.com\/s_DBB3520F20E20AC3E8059B8B900DA0B9DF1D1507EC4B1EF4CA061F2FEC820BF4_1627929921120_image.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can use categories to sort and group your events into different sections. It is one of the default taxonomies in WordPress. Simple WP Events gives you an easy way to add them to your WordPress site. How to add a new Simple WP Events category? To add the events [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[23],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-55","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-category"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplewpevents.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplewpevents.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplewpevents.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplewpevents.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplewpevents.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/simplewpevents.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":771,"href":"https:\/\/simplewpevents.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/55\/revisions\/771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplewpevents.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplewpevents.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplewpevents.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}