Community Events

[Mike]

Just watched your intro video on Community Events page and wonder do we have the option to simplify the form on the frontend for users to fill out? My site does not need that may fields and it’s necessary to hide those I don’t need.

And I’d assume we can create more than one frontend event submission form, correct?

Thank you.

Best Regards

[Mike]

Just to add one more question:

If we can have more than one event submission form, can we make a specific one that all of the submissions from that form will automatically be featured in the List / Day / calendar display once approved?

Thank you.

[Jennifer]

Hi Mike,

Thanks for checking out our Community Events plugin!

You can hide entire sections of the form or individual form fields with CSS, which is the easiest way to remove the fields you don’t need.

There is not a built-in way to create multiple event submission forms on the front end. However, you do have the option of editing the php template, which would also be another way to go about removing form fields. For more info on editing the template, check out this post.

To answer your second question, events submitted by your users will appear with events created by site admins in the list, day, and calendar views by default. I would also recommend checking out our Themer’s Guide for good some documentation on customizing Community Events and our other plugins.

I hope that helps! Please let me know if you have any more questions.

[Mike]

Thank you for your reply.

Regarding the answer to my second question, do you mean the frontend user will be given the option to select “Feature Event” under “Event Option” on the frontend event creation form just like the form we use at the backend?

On the first question, so we can have only one frontend event creation form, do i understand you correctly? In that case, will we be able to create a copy of that form somehow then use CSS to hide the fields I don’t want to show, such as the “Feature Event” and “Sticky in Month View”?

Thank you

[Jennifer]

Hi Mike,

The users do not have any of the options that are listed under Event Options on the backend (hide from event listings, sticky in month view, and feature event). Sorry about the confusion there, I should have mentioned that before. The front end form includes all of the options under the “The Events Calendar” section on the back end, plus the options to set a featured image and select a category (and of course a title and description).

If you go with Events Calendar Pro, you will also have the option to create additional fields that will appear on both the backend and front end. Again, you can easily hide these on the front end with CSS.

What Community Events does is create a front end submission form for creating events and then gives you some options to help control what users are able to do with it (such as requiring users to be logged in to submit, setting the default status for user-submitted events, allowing/preventing users from creating new venues, etc). So yes, there is only one front end submission form, and you can use CSS to hide say, the Event Website section, just on the front end form and keep it in place on the back end.

If you wanted to make more advanced changes, that is when I would recommend taking a look at the Themer’s Guide for tips on editing the php template that controls the front end event submission form.

I hope that clears things up! If not, please let me know!

[Mike]

Hi Jennifer,

Just went to http://wpshindig.com
and clicked on Add Your Event hoping to try out your frontend event submission but after typing in my email and selecting an unsername to register, i never received your email confirmation. And your login screen asks for username and password, which I don’t have. So I can’t login to try it out. Tried with another email address still the same. Kind of frustrating.

I believe Admin receives an email every time a frontend event submission is submitted, correct ? When admnin reviews the submission from backend, will admin still see the Event Options (hide from event listings, sticky in month view, and feature event) and check one?

My understandining of your pricing is that Event calendar Pro is separate from Community Event, which means to get both for one site, we’d have to pay $89 + $89 per year, correct?

Is the Frontend event submission form a page or a single post page that we can have access to at backend Admin / Pages or Admin / Posts? I use Pay Membership Pro membership plugin and if the form is a page or post page, then we’ll be able to assign membership access restriction on the page.

Does this add-on integrate with Buddypress?

Thank you.

[Mike]

Forgot to ask if you have a refund policy in place, or free trial (for the Community Event)? I probably eventually have to try it out first hand to know if it will work for my site.

[Jennifer]

Hi Mike,

Thanks for letting us know about the email issue with wpshindig. We’re going to take a look at that – sorry for the inconvenience!

Notifying the Admin (or whichever email addresses you specify) via email when new events are submitted is an option that you can turn on or off. And yes, when they review it from the back end, they will have all of the options that they would see if they were creating an event themselves. So they can edit it however they need and make it featured, etc.

You are correct about the pricing and Events Calendar Pro being a separate plugin from Community Events. You will also need to install our free The Events Calendar plugin in order to use Pro and Community Events.

The front end form comes from a php template which you can copy into your own theme and edit from there, but it’s not a post or page that you can open up in the admin and edit. It’s more of a gateway to allow users to create events (which are custom post types that can be opened in the admin) without having access to the rest of your site.

For Buddypress, please see this post.

And finally, our refund policy entitles you to a full refund within 30 days if you are not satisfied with the products, so I would definitely recommend trying them out! The licenses for the plugins also give you access to our premium support forums, so if you have questions or need help after you’ve installed the plugins, we’re here for you!

[Mike]

Hi Jennifer,

“The front end form comes from a php template which you can copy into your own theme and edit from there”

Sorry that I’m not a developer so have no knowledge on what this means. I have, however, copied and pastes codes onto my child theme functions.php many times so I’m wondering will it be complicated to copy this php template into my theme and what possible editing i can make, i.e. what differences i can make to the things I can create with the template for my site? Is it possible for a non-dev to do it? Could you provide me some info on how to do it?

If I can pull it off myself, does that mean I can have more than one form, or I’ll still have one form only but with different functionalities than the ones comes out of the box with the add-on due to the editing I did to the template?

The refund policy looks pretty straighforward and simple. I hope there’s no hidden fineprint somewhere or difficut process at your end. No offense but it’s always a good idea to check things out beforehand.

Thank you.

[Mike]

.. and if I can copy the php template into my theme and edit, will it still be unaccessible from backend, unlike page and post?

Thank you

[Jennifer]

Hi Mike,

Copying and editing the php template is indeed on the technical side. We have a guide for copying templates into your theme, but once it’s in there, you will need to use html and/or php to edit it. Also, this would not give you more than one form (your copy would replace the original one), so this may not be the best option for you.

To your second question, every event is accessible from the backend to edit, whether it was created there or via the front end form, just like posts and pages.

I completely understand your hesitation regarding the refund policy! Fortunately, our process is very simple. If the plugin doesn’t work for you, just let us know by filling out the form here within 30 days of purchase, and you get your money back.

Hopefully this helps clear things up, but if not, just let me know!

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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