Community Events Featured Image not available to end user

[Glenn]

Geoff,

Another person created an account, added an event using the admin bar menu, I got no notification and to top it all off didn’t create the multiple event correctly. 🙁

Glenn.

[Geoff B.]

Good evening Glenn,

Thank you for writing back.

First of all, there is no such thing as a stupid question or technology user in my opinion 🙂

These are great questions. Most of our users prefer to use a link such  http://onin.melbourne/events/community/add to force users to stay on the front-end of their website. They accomplish that via the Block access to WordPress dashboard checkbox in combination with the redirect URL set to http://onin.melbourne/events/community/add.

These same customers also like using Theme my login in combination with Community Events to provide a full front-end experience.

But in the end it’s a matter of personal preference.

The good news is that I was able to reproduce the issue of not seeing the featured image option and not receiving an email notification for those who prefer using the backend. As such, I will open a bug ticket. Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

Unfortunately, I cannot commit to a release date at this point. But stay tuned, we will contact you as soon as it’s fixed.

In the meantime, if you would rather use the backend method, there are a couple of workarounds:

1. Add the upload_files capability to your subscriber role.  This is easily accomplished via a plugin such as Members.
2. Use a plugin such as better wordpress notifications to ensure you get email notifications each time an event is created

I realize those are not ideal, but they will work until these bugs are fixed.

Users always mess up the dates/times of events that span multiple dates. I don’t think I have had one do it correctly yet. Today’s example is a Magic show that goes for about 2 weeks. 27/06/2016 @ 10:30 am – 09/07/2016 @ 11:50 am That will be one tired magician! The form is confusing and probably needs some tweaking of the layout. (I can put this feedback somewhere else if needed)

Yes, if you don’t mind, a separate thread to address this specific aspect would be awesome.

Let me know how that goes and thank you for everything

Best regards,
Geoff B.

[Glenn]

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[Glenn]

Geoff,

Thanks for the reply and clarifying how most people achieve the desired outcome.

I added the plugin “If Menu” and created a menu that shows “Login” if there is no logged in user and “Event Management” menu if they are logged in (as well as a logout menu)

Added plugin “Remove Dashboard Access” with redirect so Subscribers don’t see the admin area once logged in. Also added the message to the login area advising users to look out for the Event Management menu.

Added the following to functions.php in my child site to hide the admin bar from non-admins.

/**
* Code to hide admin bar unless admin.
*/
add_action('after_setup_theme', 'remove_admin_bar');
function remove_admin_bar() {
	if (!current_user_can('administrator') && !is_admin()) {
 		 show_admin_bar(false);
	}
}
/**
 * END Code to hide admin bar unless admin.
 */

Hopefully this will sort out the issue.

Thx for your help.

Regards,

Glenn.

[Geoff B.]

Good evening Glenn,

Thank you for sharing that awesome video. It did make me laugh 🙂

Adding a plugin to tackle the issue is a great idea. There is also another plugin that achieves similar results: https://wordpress.org/plugins/nav-menu-roles/

Let me know if there is anything else I can do for you on this topic until we release the fixes.

Best regards and thank you for everything,

Geoff B.

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