{"id":1952293,"date":"2022-03-17T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/knowledgebase\/?post_type=tribe-knowledgebase&p=1952293"},"modified":"2024-06-11T14:42:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T18:42:17","slug":"creating-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/knowledgebase\/creating-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating Events"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Once you’ve installed and activated The Events Calendar, you’re going to want to create some events. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is actually really easy. Let’s start in the WordPress dashboard – you should be able to find a menu entry called Events<\/em> and, if you click on it, you should see the Add New<\/em> link.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once you’ve found it, go ahead and click on it! This should bring you to the event editor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event editor hopefully won’t contain too many surprises: it is intentionally almost identical – at least at first glance – to the regular page and post editor used by WordPress itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83d\udca1<\/strong><\/strong>Note: If you are using Classic Editor please ensure that the Block Editor is deactivated in our settings to prevent any potential conflicts. Please go to\u00a0Events > Settings > General > Activate Block Editor for Events<\/strong>\u00a0and make sure this option is disabled. Enabling this option could lead to the Time & Date<\/strong> box disappearing in the Classic editor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just as with a page or post, you can add a title and description to your event. The expected controls for saving it as a draft or publishing it are present, too:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So, if you’re familiar with WordPress, you should feel right at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Of course, events have specific bits of information associated with them that most pages and posts don’t require – start and end dates, for instance, not to mention venues and organizers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fields to set all of these things can be found below the description editor, in an area called the events meta box<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Let’s look at each of the settings in this area in turn. First, the date and time fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n