The event tags addon helps you add an event tag to each of your events to improve its searchability. It makes it easy for visitors to search for their preferred events with ease 

Installing The Plugin

The installation process is the same for all the addons offered by WP Event Manager. They can be installed both automatically and manually.

1. Automatic Installation: You can install the plugin from the backend of your WordPress. Click here to see how you can install the plugin automatically.
2. Manual Installation : You can also install the plugin manually using SFTP or FTP tools. Click here to see how you can install the plugin manually.
   

How To Add Event Tags?

After installing and activating the Event Tags plugins on your WordPress site, you, as an admin, can add Event Tags from two places on your site.

1. From the frontend event submission form.
2. From the backend event submission form.
   
3. An alternative method to create an event tag from the admin side.
   

1. Login to wp-admin.
2. Go to Event Manager and Click on Event Tags. 

1. Fill in all the necessary details on the page, including event name, slug, and description. If the colors add-on is activated, you can also add your preferred colors to each event tag, including its background and text. 

1. Click on "Add New Event Tag." 
   

An organizer can add Event Tags from the frontend event submission form only. This is how(as you can see in the image below) you will get the “Event Tags(optional)” field on the Frontend event submission form. Use a comma to separate the event tags.

This is how (as you can see in the image below) you will get the Event Tags field on the Backend event submission form in the sidebar area of the page.

Filter By Tags

Filtering events based on their tags can be done on the event listing page. Visitors can filter the events by the tags, as you can see in the screenshot below:

How To Create a Static Page & Enable/Disable Filter By Tags?

1. Go to WP-admin >> Pages >> Add New.
2. Name it something along the lines of “Event Tag”.
3. Add the below-mentioned shortcode in the content area to disable the “filter by tags” option.
   
1. [events show_tags=false]: To enable it, just change the status from “false” to “true” for “show_tags” in the shortcode. [events show_tags=true]
   
2. [events_by_tag]: This shortcode displays a list of events that have tags added to them. Also, we can add parameters to this shortcode.
   
3. [events_by_tag tag="networking"]: This shortcode displays all events that have the “networking” tag in them. We can use multiple parameters with this shortcode to add multiple tags to events.
   
4. [events_by_tag tag=" ai, networking"]: This shortcode displays events that have both tags.
   

Advanced: Overriding/Customizing the templates

For overriding or customization, template files can be found in the wp-event-manager-event-tag/templates/ directory.

To override a template file, follow the steps below

1. Create a directory “wp-event-manager-event-tag” under your theme folder.
2. Copy the template file to “/wp-content/yourtheme/wp-event-manager-event-tag/” directory.
3. Your theme will use all the template files from the “/wp-content/yourtheme/wp-event-manager-event-tag/” directory instead of the plugin’s template file (/wp-content/plugins/wp-event-manager-event-tag/).
   
4. The event-event-tag.php template file lists the user’s tag.
5. wp-event-manager-event-tags-forms.php template file, which controls the tag form display on the events page.

Remember: If you have overridden the template file and the plugin is frequently updating, then you need to sync the template file with the new updates from the plugin’s template file for better functionality and new features.

1. To enable it, just change the status from “false” to “true” for “show_tags” in the shortcode.