The Events Calendar Event Submission
Allowing your visitors to submit and manage their own events is an excellent way to build community engagement and reduce your administrative workload. Setting up frontend submission tools gives users a direct way to contribute to your calendar without needing backend access to your WordPress dashboard. When you configure clear user submission options and editorial permissions, you retain complete control over what gets published on your public schedule.
This collection provides helpful guides to get you started with Community Events and Community Tickets. You will learn how to set up the main submission forms, manage attendee listings, customize form fields, and even allow organizers to sell tickets while you split the revenue. Use these resources to build a seamless submission workflow that keeps your community active and your calendar thriving.
The Events Calendar Event Submission articles
Explore the following guides to learn how to configure frontend event submissions, handle incoming listings, and manage community tickets.
Community Events Template Files
Read more: Community Events Template FilesCommunity Events come with a number of template files that determine how the add-on looks and behaves. We call these templates views because they create the pages and elements that you see on your site. Each template can be copied and customized in your theme folder. Community Events All of the following templates are located at: /wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar-community-events/src/views/community/ Template…
Configuring Community Events and Tickets
Read more: Configuring Community Events and TicketsCommunity Events Settings As a site admin, you have a number of controls over how frontend event submission works on your site: who gets notifications of new submissions, whether submissions go live automatically, and more. Almost all of these can be found on the Community settings tab at Events → Settings → Community. After installing…
Customizing Community Events Pages
Read more: Customizing Community Events PagesCommunity Events adds several front-end pages to your site — the submission form, the “My Events” list, and the confirmation pages users see after submitting. This article walks through ways to tailor those pages to fit your site. See also: Adding Content Above or Below Community Events Elements You may want to include some instructions…
Customizing Community Events Submissions
Read more: Customizing Community Events SubmissionsThe Community Events submission form gives your users a way to add events to your calendar, but its default setup won’t suit every site. This article covers how to adjust what the form asks for and how it behaves — from changing which fields appear to shaping the submission experience around your own workflow. See…
Customizing the Community Event Submission Form
Read more: Customizing the Community Event Submission FormThe Community Events submission form gives visitors a way to add events to your calendar. You may want to shape what users see, what they’re asked to provide, and what happens when they submit. This article collects customizations for the submission form itself. See also: Customizing Styles with CSS and PHP Sometimes the default styling…
Getting Started with Community Events and Tickets
Read more: Getting Started with Community Events and TicketsReady to get started with Community Events? We’ve got you covered! The steps below will help you get set up and ready to use your calendar’s new add-on features. If you are new to our core plugin, The Events Calendar, you’ll want to make sure to familiarize yourself with it before continuing here. 1. Download and install…
How to Use Community Events Shortcodes
Read more: How to Use Community Events ShortcodesCommunity adds pages to your site where people submitting events can access the form to submit or edit, and manage attendees and orders. But sometimes you might want to provide front-end access to these settings and tools to logged-in approved users or even use one of your own pages or posts instead of what Community provides out of the…
Let Users Submit and Manage Events with Community Events
Read more: Let Users Submit and Manage Events with Community EventsAllowing users to submit and manage their own events directly on your site is a powerful way to build community engagement and reduce the admin work of curating a calendar. With The Events Calendar and the Community Events add-on, you can enable frontend event submissions, review what comes in, and give users a dedicated page…