Manage Categories

The vendor will choose category when make new event at frontend.

1: Add a New Category

Go to: Events >> Categories >> Add New

• Category Color: This color will be used as the background for the category on the frontend

• Custom Checkout Fields: You can choose to display all or special fields in booking form. To add a new custom checkout field, go to: Events >> Manage Bookings >> Custom Checkout Fields

List Categories

• Image: Choose featured image for a category. To upload featured image for a category, choose the category, click edit button, go to image tab and click "Add image" button to upload.

2: Display Categories on the Frontend

Add Category to menu.

If the event titles only display three words, you can show more words by adding the code below to the functions.php file in your child theme. Change the value 120 to the number of words you want.

add_filter( 'el_title_count_two', function(){ return 120; } );
add_filter( 'el_title_count_three', function(){ return 120; } );

3: Choose a Category When Making a New Event

4: Customize template of Category Page

a) Remove/Customize search form

Read here

b) Change layout of event listing page

Go to Events >> Settings >> Event >> Archive Event Settings

c) Customize layout in child theme

Copy code from
Plugins/eventlist/templates/archive-event.php 
to
Themes/meup-child/eventlist/archive-event.php