Displaying Various Data on Different Subdomains

[Curbside]

I am in the process of moving off SquareSpace and into WordPress and plan to use The Events Calendar for our car show calendar. I already use it for several other websites for which I have content management privileges.

What I am wondering is if I can have a “master” calendar and then several subdomains with those subdomains showing only the data relevant to that domain. For example, the master would be a general car show calendar but the subdomains would be for various car clubs. If this is possible, is there a maximum number of sub-calendars/sub-domains or can I just go freaking nuts with subdomains like some mad scientist of calendars? I do already have the glasses so I’ve got a good start on the mad scientist thing.

Secondly, if someone submits a car show to our calendar is there an easy tool to get their contact info into MailChimp (with their permission, obviously). The contact form on SquareSpace integrates directly into MailChimp which is a pretty cool time saver.

I sincerely appreciate the input and advice and look forward to the new website with The Events Calendar. I love telling people where to go (with their classic cars, of course!).

[Caroline]

Hi there,

Thanks so much for taking the time to reach out! We’re happy to welcome you to the world of WordPress and The Events Calendar suite! 😉

Great question about master calendars and smaller subdomain calendars here! At the moment, there’s no straightforward way to create a “network” of calendars across multiple sites in this fashion. The solution I’d typically recommend would be one involving our import plugin, Event Aggregator. Simply create a Google Calendar and set up all of the events that will be shown across your master and subdomain calendars, making sure to assign descriptive categories to all of your events. You can then install Event Aggregator alongside your calendar plugin of choice on your primary domain and subdomains and create a scheduled daily import of the calendar to each site. By having the master calendar import all events and having each subdomain site import only events from relevant categories, you’ll ensure that your calendars display the content that needs to be shown on each site, and you’ll only have to actively maintain one calendar, the Google Calendar itself. 🙂

Unfortunately, we don’t offer built-in MailChimp support for our plugins at this time, though this is something that may very well be possible via some combination of third-party plugins or services. We’ve provided a few ideas here on a related UserVoice suggestion.

I hope that helps to get you started here! Thanks again for stopping by, and let us know if there’s anything else we can do to assist!

[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

[Author]

Posts