Introduce categories for sessions

[francina]

During WordCamp Europe 2017 I worked with speakers and to label the sessions in the schedule (we had 4 categories), the design team had to hack the CSS.
Would it be possible to introduce taxonomies for sessions so they can be clearly marked in the schedule?
Thanks!

[coreymckrill]

@francina Sessions already have the Track taxonomy, which does appear in the schedule:

​https://make.wordpress.org/community/handbook/wordcamp-organizer/first-steps/web-presence/custom-tools-for-building-wordcamp-content/#sessions

Does that cover your use case, or is there something further you're thinking of?

[francina]

Hi Corey
nope, I am referring to categories for talks.
Please see WCEU Schedule: ​https://2017.europe.wordcamp.org/schedule/
We had labels for Community, Development, Design and Business. They are a CSS hack as far as I know.
It would be great to be able to show categories or tags of topics in the schedule, so people can immediately see the topics.
Thanks!

[coreymckrill]

@francina Oh, I think I see. Tracks are often used to designate which room the session will be in, but the sessions themselves in a particular room may not all fall into similar categories or topics. So this would allow the sessions to be categorized to help attendees find the types of sessions they are most interested in. Does that sound accurate?

Sounds like a good idea to me.

[iandunn]

We talked about this at the bug scrub today, and agreed that a new taxonomy would be good. Maybe it could be called "Audience", or something "Type"? Does anyone have any better ideas for what to call it?

If it's assigned, it can output the label inside the schedule block, and add a CSS class to the container. That should avoid any back-compat issues?

[francina]

Those would be two taxonomies and they all work very well.
Type (or Category or Topics) would refer to the topic itself: business, development, community, content, etc...
Audience would refer to the intended level of the audience: beginner, medium, advanced

[Kau-Boy]

Fixing the rewrite

[coreymckrill]

In 6213:

WordCamp Post Types: Add category taxonomy for sessions

This allows sessions to be better differentiated in the schedule
and elsewhere.

Props Kau-Boy
Fixes #3035

[Kau-Boy]

Added body classes and categories to the single view content

[Kau-Boy]

Changed the session categories slug to use a dash instead of an underscore

[coreymckrill]

In 6227:

WordCamp Post Types: Append session categories to their post content.

Also add session category term slugs to body classes.

Props Kau-Boy
Fixes #3035