Title: [Plugin: Event Organiser] Feature Possibility?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Event Organiser] Feature Possibility?

 *  [staple](https://wordpress.org/support/users/staple/)
 * (@staple)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-event-organiser-feature-possibility/)
 * Hi Stephen,
 * I am working on a site for a festival that has acts/events/venues, I’ve looked
   most of the WP plugins and haven’t found one yet as nice and simple as yours 
   yet with the required features ~ yours has all but one.
 * I think there may be a number of people in my situation and I am wondering if
   you would consider replicating ‘Venues’ in your plugin as a second taxonomy ‘
   Act/Speaker/Artist’, that way it would be easier to:
    - Have ‘venue’ pages that listed events by ‘venue’
    - Have ‘Act/Speaker/Artist’ pages that list events by ‘Act/Speaker/Artist’
 * It would be easy enough to use a category for the artist but then it seems toturous
   to enable images/galleies etc which would need to be on the artists taxonomy 
   page. I like the way you have enabled the ‘venue’ taxonomy with these features.
 * If I can help I’d be very happy to, either doing the coding or testing…
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/event-organiser/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/event-organiser/)

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 *  [Stephen Harris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stephenh1988/)
 * (@stephenh1988)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-event-organiser-feature-possibility/#post-2923891)
 * Venues, as I think you know, are just a custom taxonomy. So typically the admin
   page is limited, and there is no metabox support.
 * To give venues more features, I’ve implemented a custom page, complete with metaboxes
   and added a venue meta data table (similar to post meta data). WordPress makes
   this surprisingly easy – and has some helpful API. (I shall probably right an
   article on how to do this at some point…)
 * However, this does mean features such as ‘featured image’ are not natively supported
   for venues – although they could be added (probably relatively painlessly if 
   stored in the meta table).
 * I took the decision to implement venues as taxonomy terms – since this worked
   well with the internals of WordPress (it makes sense to group events by venue).
   With artists you might consider it makes much more sense to have a custom post
   type ‘artist’ and then use post meta to link them to events (or vice versa).
 * Which is the best method really it depends on your situation – partly for that
   reason, I won’t be introducing this into the ‘core’ of the plug-in (also, its
   an extra feature that I don’t think many need – I’ve tried to keep the plug-in
   as ‘light’ and wide-ranging as possible, while making it easy to extend). So 
   I’m happy to leave this to someone else to make an add-on.
 * As mentioned above, I will at some point write an article on how I created the
   venue page. I’ll link to it here when I have done so.

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 * Last reply from: [Stephen Harris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stephenh1988/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-event-organiser-feature-possibility/#post-2923891)
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