The plugin does not do this kind of thing very well: the two types of data (visitors, events) are too different to be efficiently handled by the plugin. Have you looked for a plugin that is designed to manage events and attendees?
Thank you for the answer!
Yes, I have looked for such plugin, but I haven’t really been able to find any. I am currently using The Events Calendar but there is no sign-up form within that plugin. What I really need is for users to sign-up for the events, and then for their info to be stored so I can see who signed up for every event. It’s actually quite simple, I just don’t seem to be able to find any plugins that can do that.
Do you have any suggestions?
OK, well, the problem is how to keep track of the events each user has signed up for. Now, if you have one event/one signup this is simplified, and is probably the way to go. If you’re hoping for one signup/multiple events…that’s going to be a lot more complicated.
Let’s say you’re going for the first option. You’ll need to be pretty familiar with PHP and working with templates. You’d add a signup form to the calendar plugin event template. Each signup form would include a field that identifies which event it is…then, when someone signs up that event identifier would be included in the record. After that, its a fairly simple matter of filtering the Participants Database list output to show all records for that one event.
If you don’t have the coding skills, you’ll probably need to get some help to make this work.
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