Facebook events query

[James]

Hi there

I’m looking at Facebook events add-on for The Events Calendar plugin. I have a couple of questions:

1) Is there a limit on venues I can sync with to pull in events?
2) How can I determine what events are ‘adult’ as I’m focussing on music events and gigs, some of which will be held in bars?
3) Do I need to set up each venue’s details prior to importing venues within The Events Calendar?

Thanks
James

[George]

Hey James,

Thanks for reaching out, and for your interest in our products!

1) Is there a limit on venues I can sync with to pull in events?

There are no hard limits on any aspect of the importer plugin: number of venues, number of events, number of pages, etc. The only constraints in place are the technical ones of your site and server.

So, for example, if you wanted to have scheduled imports from 1500 different Facebook pages, this is allowed, but would probably crash your site any time an import tried to run because it’s just too much data.

I hope this info helps — let me know if there’s anything more specific you’re wondering about here!

2) How can I determine what events are ‘adult’ as I’m focussing on music events and gigs, some of which will be held in bars?

There’s unfortunately no way of determining what events are “adult-only” from within WordPress, or after the import process, because Facebook itself does not allow “adult” events to even be publicly accessible via their API! 🙁 So the only way to know which events are adult or not is on Facebook.com directly — if it’s got an age restriction added manually by the creator of the event, this can be changed by the event creator and it can then be made a “non-adult-only” event can be imported. However, Facebook itself also does automatic flagging of events, so that events related to alcohol, for example, cannot be “un-flagged” in this way.

You can learn more about this here → https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/facebook-api-errors/

3) Do I need to set up each venue’s details prior to importing venues within The Events Calendar?

When you say “set up each venue’s details”, it depends what you mean. If you mean that the info has to exist first on Facebook.com to be imported, then yes, the event on Facebook.com needs to have its address/location info added in order for that information to be imported.

If you mean something else, like either adding venue info on the WordPress site first, or needing to some special venue creation on Facebook.com firs, then no, you do not. All you need to do on the Facebook.com event is specify the location: if it’s a located that’s already been used in previous imports, than on the WordPress site it should just reference that originally-imported venue. If it’s a location that hasn’t been used before, then a new venue will be automatically created and assigned to that event on the WordPress site, and to all future imported events that occur at the same venue.

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

— 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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