{"id":5045,"date":"2026-04-24T12:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T10:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cevento-plugin.com\/docs\/003-categories\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T12:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T10:38:14","slug":"003-categories","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/cevento-plugin.com\/en\/docs\/003-categories\/","title":{"rendered":"Event Categories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cevento gives you the ability to organize your events into categories. Each category gets its own archive view, and you can also configure your <a href=\"\/en\/docs\/001-shortcode-builder\/\">shortcodes<\/a> so that only events from specific categories are displayed.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"overview\">Overview<\/h2>\n<p>In the WordPress dashboard under <span class=\"cevento-docs__term\">Cevento<\/span> &rarr; <span class=\"cevento-docs__term\">Categories<\/span>, you will see a form on the left to create a new category and a table on the right with your existing categories.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"create-a-category\">Create a Category<\/h2>\n<p>To create a new category, fill in the fields on the left and click the button <span class=\"cevento-docs__term\">Add New Category<\/span>. You can also assign a color to your category. This color overrides the background color of the category label of your events. Pay attention to the information provided for the various other fields that WordPress makes available.<\/p>\n<div uk-lightbox><a href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/cevento-docs\/en\/002-003-kategorie-erstellen.gif\" data-caption=\"Category creation process\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/cevento-docs\/en\/002-003-kategorie-erstellen.gif\" alt=\"Category creation process\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div uk-lightbox><a href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/cevento-docs\/en\/002-003-kategorien_farbe.jpg\" data-caption=\"Event view with category color\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/cevento-docs\/en\/002-003-kategorien_farbe.jpg\" alt=\"Event view with category color\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"cevento-docs__caption\">The color assigned in the category settings will be used as the background color for the category label in the event views.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"edit-a-category\">Edit a Category<\/h2>\n<p>If you want to edit a category, hover your mouse over the title of the category you want to edit in the table on the right and click the link <span class=\"cevento-docs__term\">Edit<\/span> that appears. Alternatively, you can also click on the category title. In the category editor, you can change the desired settings and then click the button <span class=\"cevento-docs__term\">Update<\/span> to save your changes.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"thema":[678],"class_list":["post-5045","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","thema-events"],"acf":{"excerpt":"Make your events filterable","toc":"<ol class=\"toc\">\n<li><a href=\"#overview\"  uk-scroll=\"offset: 120\">Overview<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#create-a-category\"  uk-scroll=\"offset: 120\">Create a Category<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#edit-a-category\"  uk-scroll=\"offset: 120\">Edit a Category<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cevento-plugin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/5045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cevento-plugin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cevento-plugin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cevento-plugin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"thema","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cevento-plugin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thema?post=5045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}