Use an existing custom post instead of Events

Howdy kristachrome,

That is not going to work very well. It would be possible, but will require a high degree of effort and research to do.

Are you just looking to have a field for each event which shows who the speaker is? If so Events Calendar PRO‘s Additional Fields might work. If instead you are just looking to add perhaps a custom taxonomy where you can add speakers/taxes and from an event people could click on that speaker and see all events with them, then that is doable. It’s really just the usual process for adding another taxonomy to a WordPress CPT. Or if you don’t even want to go that far, perhaps you could just use the built in categories tax and rename it to speakers?

I hope that helps. I wish there was an easier way to use your own post type, but I can’t think of one.

Cheers!
– Brook