Using the Event Tags plugin, you can add a new ‘event tags’ field to the submit process, show events filtered by tag via a shortcode, and add tag filtering to the standard events shortcode.

Installing The Plugin

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

Watch the this video entire video for better understanding.

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.

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 at 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 below-mentioned screenshot:

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

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 below-mentioned steps

1. Create 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. 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 events page.

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