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.
Selling Tickets for Submitted Community Events
Read more: Selling Tickets for Submitted Community EventsThe Community plugin lets users submit events to your site. When paired with Event Tickets, those users can also sell tickets for their events — with you, as the site admin, optionally collecting a fee from each sale and splitting payments with the organizer via PayPal. This guide walks through the full lifecycle: setting up…
Troubleshooting Community Events
Read more: Troubleshooting Community Events“There was a problem saving your Event, please try again.” Error You may receive reports from users that they encounter the following error upon submitting events on your site. When users encounter this error while submitting events via the Community plugin, it’s often due to caching misconfigurations. Caching plugins or server-side caching can interfere with…