[Plugin: Events Manager] Can visitors submit their own events?

  • atlyss

    (@atlyss)


    12 years, 6 months ago

    Hi there. I run a site for a global day of celebration, http://www.WorldOceansDay.org

    Most of our events happen on the same day every year (June 8th). We had about 400 events last year.

    I’m trying to streamline the event manager, so I’m going to uninstall Events Manager Extended (what we used last year) and use the original Events Manager.

    Is it possible for visitors to submit their events through a form? Ideally I would like to have them submit their event, and then it would be added to the events manager as “Draft.” Then I could read it over and approve it to be published.

    Is this already in the plugin’s functionality? Or has someone done this before? I’m not very experienced and would rather not start from scratch.

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/events-manager/

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  • agelonwl

    (@angelonwl)

    12 years, 6 months ago

    Hi,

    You can use Anonymous Event Submission using this [event_form] shortcode.

    Thread Starter atlyss

    (@atlyss)

    12 years, 6 months ago

    thanks, you’ve just made my life soooo much easier! Is there a way to customize what fields are available?

    For example… last year I had “attributes” of Contact Email and Website URL. I displayed events by location (as Categories).

    Is it possible for me to let event organizers enter this information or will I have to do it some other way?

    Plugin Author Marcus (aka @msykes)

    (@netweblogic)

    12 years, 6 months ago

    http://wp-events-plugin.com/documentation/using-template-files

    you can edit the forms/event-editor… files.

    zxen

    (@zxen)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    Can you please tell me exactly how to create a ‘Submit Event’ button and make it work? The above information is not much help for noobs.

    They will need to be able to feature, edit etc their ads.

    I will use these events forms in conjunction with ‘Another WordPress Classifieds Plugin’.

    My website categories will be What’s On | Auditions | People | Services | Tuition | Site Comments.

    Plugin Author Marcus (aka @msykes)

    (@netweblogic)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    I don’t know how it’d work with that other plugin, but for example, you could do a direct link e.g.

    <a href="http://yoursite.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=events-manager-event">Add Event</a>

    Plugin Author Marcus (aka @msykes)

    (@netweblogic)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    if you’re using the shortcode as explained above, you would just replace that link with a link to whatever page you added that shortcode to

    jrhalsall

    (@jrhalsall)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    Hi Atlyss – just looking at your site http://worldoceansday.org/events/submitevent/

    Did you get the [event form] working in the end or did you use a custom form to collect the data?

    I keep getting error messages on the front end when I submit an anonymous event!

    James

    Plugin Author Marcus (aka @msykes)

    (@netweblogic)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    fyi, this has had a good workover in v5 and is already working much better. we’ll have an eta this week

    Thread Starter atlyss

    (@atlyss)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    James, I can’t be of much help, sorry! That submission form was made for me by someone else for last year… it doesn’t actually use the plugin’s form.

    Thanks for the heads up Marcus, this stuff is so useful for so many of us. Truly appreciated.

    jrhalsall

    (@jrhalsall)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    Thanks Atlyss – that makes sense! So you convert each form submission into an event?

    Also thanks Marcus – look forward to version 5!

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