Event Aggregator – Clarification

[Denon]

Hi,

In regards to adding the new Event Aggregator license to my calendar setup.. I already have the Facebook importer.. and I HAD the iCal importer but haven’t renewed it yet (hadn’t used it) …

My questions are:

1) once I purchase the Event Aggregator, does it replace the facebook and iCal importers?? or, are they still required?

2) Does the iCal function of the EA import the images now? or is that still a no?

3) Just curious why there is a 100 per day limit. I’m not there yet, but being a city wide community calendar, I can see this limit ultimately being reached.

Thanks.

[Leo]

Hello everyone,

To follow up on Denon’s question on images, I would like to know if Events Aggregator is able to pull images from Facebook events and, if so, in which resolution would the picture be in? What about venue locations, would it be able to pull that info too?

In other words, I’m trying to figure out how an event would look like on my WordPress site once it was imported through EA. Let’s say I create a FB event with an image, a location and an organiser….would all of these elements be included in the imported event in WordPress? I am not familiar with the previous iCal and FB plugins, so I’m not sure what exactly they are able to do…

Many thanks for your reply

Leo

[George]

Hi @Denon,

Thanks for reaching out. In response to each of your questions:

1) once I purchase the Event Aggregator, does it replace the facebook and iCal importers?? or, are they still required?

YES — Event Aggregator replaces Facebook Importer and iCal Importer. However, this replacing it not “automatic”. So for example, once you enter your Event Aggregator license key in your Events Calendar settings, those two legacy importer plugins do not automatically get turned off or removed or anything.

You need to manually delete Facebook Importer and iCal Importer yourself, ideally before you activate Event Aggregator.

More on this process is described here ? https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/moving-to-event-aggregator/

2) Does the iCal function of the EA import the images now? or is that still a no?

When you say “import the images”, can you clarify where you are saying the images should be imported from? The ICS format itself does not have “featured image” feature, etc., so I am just curious about what iCal feed you are describing specifically that has images to be imported. Please share URL to such a feed, if possible. This will help me accurately answer this question.

3) Just curious why there is a 100 per day limit. I’m not there yet, but being a city wide community calendar, I can see this limit ultimately being reached.

We are working on providing higher tiers of daily limits, for exactly the concerns you describe! At this time the only option is the 100 imports per day limit, and there is unfortunately no current way around this. But as noted, we are working on providing higher tiers of limits in the very near term.

Please let me know if there are any other issues or questions I can try to help with!

Sincerely,
George

[George]

Hi Leo,

I would like to know if Events Aggregator is able to pull images from Facebook events and, if so, in which resolution would the picture be in? What about venue locations, would it be able to pull that info too?

YES — If the Facebook Event itself has a featured image then it is pulled in by Event Aggregator as the WordPress post featured image of the event. As for the what resolution it’s in, this is just whatever resolution the image itself is in. In other words, if you use a 300×400-pixel image on Facebook, a 300×400 image will be pulled in. Event Aggregator doesn’t modify this at all.

YES — Just like with images, if the event on Facebook itself has its venue details filled out, then upon being imported into WordPress that data is used to a) create a venue (or use an already-created one of the same data) and b) assigns the event to that venue.

Let’s say I create a FB event with an image, a location and an organiser….would all of these elements be included in the imported event in WordPress?

Yes, all of this data will be included in the imported event.

Based on your theme, specific events, and the details you specifically are most concerned about, you may find it best to just try out Event Aggregator on your site and do some test imports. See how things go! If you don’t like it, we’ll happily provide a 100% refund upon request within the first 30 days of purchase.

I hope this information helps! 😀

— 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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