Title: Using Events as Posts
Last modified: December 1, 2017

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# Using Events as Posts

 *  Resolved [kfroese](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kfroese/)
 * (@kfroese)
 * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-events-as-posts/)
 * I run a website for a non-profit professional association with about 200 members.
   The website is primarily used to notify members about upcoming lectures. I’m 
   considering implementing MembershipWorks to bring our member management online(
   for becoming members and renewals, no member-specific content) and to facilitate
   event registration.
    I have two things that I need the package to do to make 
   it work in our situation: 1. Have the event listing include a short summary of
   the topic to be presented (typically the first paragraph of the full listing).
   2. Have the event listings appear automatically as blog posts on the home page
   and with some level of controlled sorting (by event date, not post date and sorted
   by next event, upcoming events, and then past events). Can this be done with 
   this MembershipWorks package?

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 *  Plugin Author [MembershipWorks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sourcefound/)
 * (@sourcefound)
 * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-events-as-posts/#post-9741587)
 * Hi kfroese!
 * 1. At this time it is not possible to include a short summary in the event list
   or event widget.
 * 2. Events in our system are not psots in WordPress, but you can use the Upcoming
   Events widget (using the widget directly, or using a shortcode) on the home page
   to display a specific number of upcoming events, sorted by event date. However
   it is not possible to display past events directly.

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