Community Events

[Bob]

We have a site that is not generally editable by our users. I would like to be able to have some users submit events for approval, but I do not want them to edit the rest of the site. Are users for the Community Events module separate from WordPress users?

Does adding community events integrate with the main calendar on our site, and can we still create events from the admin console as we do now?

Thanks!

[George]

Hey Bob,

Thanks for reaching out! I will address your questions in reverse order, if you don’t mind 🙂

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Does adding community events integrate with the main calendar on our site, and can we still create events from the admin console as we do now?

Yes — events created from/within Community Events show up on the same calendar as events you create in your admin; and these admin event-creation features are all totally left in place regardless of whether or not Community Events is active.

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I would like to be able to have some users submit events for approval, but I do not want them to edit the rest of the site. Are users for the Community Events module separate from WordPress users?

No — “Users” in the context of Community Events are not different than regular WordPress users. It is all one shared set of users, using the User Management features provided by WordPress itself.

However, you might still be able to have users who can submit Community Events but cannot do…well, anything else on your site.

This is possible by only letting WordPress users on your site other than the admins to be “Subscriber”-level users. This level has very restricted access. You could let them submit Community Events, for example, and they can modify their own user profiles, like changing their account email or password, but nothing else on your site.

If you’re not familiar with these features within WordPress, I would definitely recommend Googling around a bit for some articles and guides about the WordPress user system, and what various user roles are capable of. An article like this one might be helpful in this way, for example → http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/wordpress-user-roles-and-permissions/

I hope this helps—let me know!

Thanks,
George

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