Title: Create Organisers
Last modified: March 12, 2023

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# Create Organisers

 *  Resolved [martal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/martal/)
 * (@martal)
 * [3 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-organisers/)
 * I want to create Organisers — name, contact details, ie email and telephone.
 * Then, in each event form, a drop-down to choose the organiser (just name). When
   the event displays, the organiser’s name and contact details are output.
 * I am new to this plugin. There may be an obvious way but I haven’t seen it yet.
   Would appreciate the best practice here.

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 *  [joneiseman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joneiseman/)
 * (@joneiseman)
 * [3 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-organisers/#post-16552447)
 * I have BuddyPress installed on my site and each user has their contact information
   in BuddyPress. The organizers are all in BuddyPress. When creating an event I
   can use the pulldown to select any member. If you don’t have BuddyPress, you 
   could store the contact information for each user as usermeta.
 * You can change what gets displayed in a single event under the Formatting tab
   in Settings as I explained [here](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/some-odd-features-showing-on-my-event-page/#post-16540736).
   The following contact placeholders are available for display (for events):
 *     ```wp-block-code
       Contact Details
       The values here are taken from the chosen contact for the specific event, or the default contact in the settings page.
   
       #_CONTACTNAME
       Name of the contact person for this event (as shown in the dropdown when adding an event).
       #_CONTACTUSERNAME
       Contact person's username.
       #_CONTACTEMAIL
       E-mail of the contact person for this event.
       #_CONTACTURL
       Website of the contact person for this event.
       #_CONTACTPHONE
       Phone number of the contact person for this event. Can be set in the user profile page.
       #_CONTACTAVATAR
       Contact person's avatar.
       #_CONTACTPROFILELINK
       Contact person's "Profile" link. Only works with BuddyPress enabled.
       #_CONTACTPROFILEURL
       Contact person's profile url. Only works with BuddyPress enabled.
       #_CONTACTID
       Contact person's WordPress user ID.
       #_CONTACTMETA
       Display any user meta of a WordPress account by including the meta key, e.g. #_CONTACTMETA{dbem_phone}
       ```
   
 *  [audunmb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/audunmb/)
 * (@audunmb)
 * [3 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-organisers/#post-16553643)
 * I use categories to display organisers. Each organiser is their own category,
   and category notes can be used to show more info about them.
 *  [joneiseman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joneiseman/)
 * (@joneiseman)
 * [3 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-organisers/#post-16554575)
 * You can assign categories to events (see [https://wp-events-plugin.com/documentation/event-categories/](https://wp-events-plugin.com/documentation/event-categories/)).
 * You would need to modify the template file for the event to display the category
   and category description (see [https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-display-category-descriptions-in-wordpress/](https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-display-category-descriptions-in-wordpress/)
   and [https://wp-events-plugin.com/documentation/using-template-files/](https://wp-events-plugin.com/documentation/using-template-files/)).
 * If you’re not using Event Categories but are instead using WordPress categories
   then there’s no simple way to do that.
 *  Thread Starter [martal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/martal/)
 * (@martal)
 * [3 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-organisers/#post-16566620)
 * Thanks all for your suggestions.
 * [@joneiseman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joneiseman/), so I can add 
   contact placeholders, #_CONTACTNAME etc, into the HTML of the format for a single
   event. Where can I enter the value for the placeholder?
 *  [joneiseman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joneiseman/)
 * (@joneiseman)
 * [3 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-organisers/#post-16566756)
 * The #_CONTACTNAME etc only work if you specify an author when creating an event.
   The author has to be a user on the wordpress site and they need to have permission
   to publish events as described here: [https://wp-events-plugin.com/documentation/user-event-guest-submissions/](https://wp-events-plugin.com/documentation/user-event-guest-submissions/).
 * Here’s where you specify the author when creating an event:
 * ![](https://i0.wp.com/www.ourfamilybios.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/author.
   png?resize=533%2C329&ssl=1)
 * Once you have done this #_CONTACTNAME will work without having to specify anything
   additional (other than the Author).
 * It’s really not practical to use categories for the author.
    -  This reply was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by [joneiseman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joneiseman/).
 *  Thread Starter [martal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/martal/)
 * (@martal)
 * [3 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-organisers/#post-16606582)
 * I am getting further into Events Manager, after an unsuccessful detour to The
   Events Calendar.
 * My original request was too specific, without enough knowledge. There are other
   ways to display organisers.
 * So I will be adding a section to the Locations framework and use location attributes.
 * But I’m not familiar with the HTML of attributes. Is there Events Manager documentation
   on this, or more generally? I’m not even sure of the terms.
 * And is CSS editing done by child theme style.css? I suppose there will be a lot
   of !important

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