Does it have the following Features?

[Mark]

These are the functions I need in a Calendar Theme. I list them here in hopes that someone can tell me if this Events Calendar provides what I need it to do. I need a calendar theme for an online business venture I want to start.

Website Purpose:
A bulletin board to display events, as garage sales, dance events, community events, etc for the city I live in. Much like you see a cork board with notices of events at a community center, but more robust.

How I need the Functions to Work at the Front End

• Visitor can enter the event themselves – Does not need to create an account
• Visitor Information (name, email, phone#) needed to track entry collected in the event submission form
• Event submission form requires start and end date
• Event Submissions are 2 types – “Free” events (as above) and “Paid” events.
• Paid submissions are handled in the submission form, same as free plus a payment process included, submission cannot be accept without payment first
• Submissions (paid or free) are based on categories & subcategories
• Repeat Visitors (paid or free) can create an account.
• Accounts cannot and should not give access to backend of WordPress Admin.
• Free submissions will not be previewed by me, But I should have access to all entries if I need to review any of them
• Each post (paid or free) is assigned a unique ID number, preferably one that I can create a prefix to, such as marking it as a free one or paid one and the year included. Example: p-2016-A01234 (means paid-2016-id#). With the ID number is linked to a password the user creates, that allows editing at a later time.
• Connects with payment process and submits after payment confirmed
• When posting finished, Calendar theme sends confirmation email to the user of the necessary information as “date of submission, details submitted (excluding images), unique ID number so if they need, they can contact me to address concerns about the submission.
• Submission form must have a filter where I can limit the number of characters and number of images
• Hopefully the theme has a SPAM filter that blocks unsavory posts.
• Theme allows user to return to edit the entry, using their unique ID number and password attached to that ID number. This also works with any accounts they create for themselves
• Edit form only allows edit of details of event, replacement of the single image. Does not allow date change, user has to create a new entry for different dates. User can use the edit form to delete the entry from the calendar.
• Cannot create a “new” event with edit form, only edit a current entry
• Edit form cannot access expired postings, those get deleted when end date arrives

Can this Event Calendar do all these things?
I appreciate the input and help.

Mark

[George]

Hey Mark,

Thanks for reaching out. I’ll address as many of your points as possible, but before getting into the detailed items, I want to make it clear that we do not make any themes. We do not make or specifically recommend any “Calendar themes”.

We only make plugins.

Next, I would also like to highlight the fact that The Events Calendar is the core version of the plugin, and it also happens to be free. So you can start tinkering with it and see how it looks and feels first-hand without paying a cent to a soul! 😀

Here is where you can find the core plugin, The Events Calendar → http://wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar

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• Visitor can enter the event themselves – Does not need to create an account
• Event submission form requires start and end date
• Submissions (paid or free) are based on categories & subcategories
• Repeat Visitors (paid or free) can create an account.
• Accounts cannot and should not give access to backend of WordPress Admin.
• Free submissions will not be previewed by me, But I should have access to all entries if I need to review any of them
• Hopefully the theme has a SPAM filter that blocks unsavory posts.
• Theme allows user to return to edit the entry, using their unique ID number and password attached to that ID number. This also works with any accounts they create for themselves

These things are possible with our premium Community Events add-on, which you can learn more about here → https://theeventscalendar.com/product/wordpress-community-events/

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• Visitor Information (name, email, phone#) needed to track entry collected in the event submission form
• Event Submissions are 2 types – “Free” events (as above) and “Paid” events.
• Paid submissions are handled in the submission form, same as free plus a payment process included, submission cannot be accept without payment first
• Connects with payment process and submits after payment confirmed
• When posting finished, Calendar theme sends confirmation email to the user of the necessary information as “date of submission, details submitted (excluding images), unique ID number so if they need, they can contact me to address concerns about the submission.

These things are not possible on the event submission form itself. However, we have a suite of “ticketing” plugins that provide much of this functionality for tickets on individual events once the event is already submitted. You can learn about these ticketing plugins here → https://theeventscalendar.com/product/wordpress-event-tickets/

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• Each post (paid or free) is assigned a unique ID number, preferably one that I can create a prefix to, such as marking it as a free one or paid one and the year included. Example: p-2016-A01234 (means paid-2016-id#). With the ID number is linked to a password the user creates, that allows editing at a later time.

While the custom ID can be achieved with our aforementioned ticketing plugins, having the ID “linked to a password the user creates” is not something our plugins support.

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And these things have no out-of-the-box support in our plugins:

• Submission form must have a filter where I can limit the number of characters and number of images
• Edit form only allows edit of details of event, replacement of the single image. Does not allow date change, user has to create a new entry for different dates. User can use the edit form to delete the entry from the calendar.
• Cannot create a “new” event with edit form, only edit a current entry
• Edit form cannot access expired postings, those get deleted when end date arrives

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I hope all this information helps!

Cheers,
George

[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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