How Community Events Can Improve Your Community WordPress Site

Using Community Events

If you’re looking to add an event submission form to your WordPress site, look no further! Our Community Events plugin is exactly what you need.  

From travel websites to nonprofits to community centers, adding a submission form to your website can assist a wide range of enterprises. By allowing users to submit events to your website, you can add another layer of interaction with your visitors. Plus, you’ll see the added benefit of populating your calendar without having to create every event on your own.

Below, we’ll start off by showing you how simple it is to get up and running with Community Events. Then we’ll show you some examples from several different types of businesses so you can see yourself in our products.

Let’s get started.

How to add a submission form to your website

Adding a submission form is easy with our Community Events plugin. Once you have installed and activated the plugin, simply visit yoursite.com/events/community/add to see your submission form on the front end. Depending on your theme, it’ll probably look something like this:

Community events submission form
Community Events submission form

With our Virtual Events add-on, users can even schedule a virtual event from the front-end, which includes the ability to generate a Zoom meeting or add another video link source. You can use the settings to alter the plugin’s capabilities, which can be found under Events Settings > Community.

Customizing Community Events

Community Events allows you to modify your submission form to suit your needs. If you’d like to remove a section or customize what fields your submitters can populate, you can create a template override to alter this behavior.

To change the appearance of the page, simply use this snippet to alter the CSS of the submission form.

There’s so much you can do with Community Events to make it yours. Check out our Knowledgebase to learn more about what else you can do.

Ways to use Community Events

No matter what kind of business you run, adding Community Events can provide massive benefits. For example, Wise County, Virginia’s website provides a getaway destination for people to explore nature and enjoy outdoor recreation activities. They use their submission form to allow users to add events in their area. This saves the website owners time by creating a calendar filled with events without having to do so manually. Visitors to the site can both attend and arrange events in this fashion, creating a community centered on nature and outdoor activities.

Where else could you use Community Events? Well, Healthy Aging NC uses its website to support its evidence-based health programs and connect people to the programs and agencies that improve community health. With such a community-minded website, it makes sense that they would utilize the Community Events plugin to add a submission form to the front-end of their site. This way, they can crowdsource programs like their Falls Prevention Awareness Events. This strengthens the connection between the healthcare community and the patient sector that they’re aiming to assist.

We’ve got countless examples of the different industries that benefit from having Community Events on their WordPress site, but here is just one more. Springfield Regional Arts Council connects people and the arts. They support some of the most prominent visual, performing, literary, and film/media arts organizations within 27 counties, the largest outreach of any in the state of Missouri. What better way to connect with the arts community than to aggregate their events? This allows the whole art community of Missouri to get involved in hosting exhibits and shows in their area. 

Community Manager Bundle for the win

Our Community Events plugin is great for adding crowdsourced events directly to your calendar. And you can get even more features with our Community Manager bundle. This bundle includes Community Events, Community Tickets, Event Tickets Plus, and Filter Bar all at a discounted rate! Create a powerful event marketplace and save up to 28% off on four of our best-selling plugins. Interested? Try out a demo of our Community Manager bundle today!