Church Use Requirements

[Jon Arnold]

Hi-

Our church is looking to move to WordPress. We previously had a Joomla calendar extension (JEvents) that suited our needs and are looking for something similar on WordPress.

Our needs:
1) ability to add multiple rooms to a single event (ex. a seminar that has groups in the Fellowship Hall and a classroom)
2) conflict-checking (ex. if an event is scheduled in the Fellowship Hall, you can’t schedule another event during that period)
3) ability to show images with each location (internal building map with specific room highlighted rather than Google Map)
4) unpublished events (ex. setup for a reception that would trigger conflict-checking)

I’ve tested the free version and have not been able to achieve #1 or #2. Please advise if any of these are possible on your plugin.

Thanks-

Jon

[George]

Hey there!

1) ability to add multiple rooms to a single event (ex. a seminar that has groups in the Fellowship Hall and a classroom)

“Rooms” are not a thing that exist in our plugin by default, no. But you could use custom fields, custom coding, or just a manual list of rooms to the content of the event itself.

If you are hoping to have each “room” be a “Venue” within The Events Calendar, and so then what you’re asking is if multiple venues can be used for single events, then unfortunately no they cannot at this time.

2) conflict-checking (ex. if an event is scheduled in the Fellowship Hall, you can’t schedule another event during that period)

No, this is not built into any of our plugins by default.

3) ability to show images with each location (internal building map with specific room highlighted rather than Google Map)

Yes, you can add images to the event post content, or use images like this as the “featured image” of an event (which work the same as “featured images” on posts and such within WordPress in general).

4) unpublished events (ex. setup for a reception that would trigger conflict-checking)

You can have events be in “Draft” mode or in “Pending Review” mode – these are default WordPress publishing statuses, so if you’re unfamiliar with these modes then definitely do a quick search online about these modes in WordPress.

If you mean that you want to publish events “privately” or something, so that only site administrators can see the event or people with a password can see the event, then this too is possible and these too are default WordPress features that you can read about online if you’re unfamiliar with them. The features in question here are “Private Publishing” and “Password Protected Posts” – you can use either feature with “Events” from The Events Calendar just fine 🙂

I hope this information helps!

Cheers,
George

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