Feature Request: Option to hide organizers

[unhinged]

My site has about 4-5 regular organizers that post several events per day and many short-term organizers that rarely post more than one or two events. As time goes on, it will have many more of these one-time organizers. Consequently, my Organizers drop down on the New Event page is going to get more and more cluttered with time and the regular event organizers are going to get obscured in the drop down.

It would be great if there was a solution to this… perhaps make a field on the organizer that hides it by default and is only available via the drop down search?

[Brook]

Howdy unhinged,

That is an interesting idea. The WP solution to that sort of issue is generally to have an ajax search box, where you can just start typing into it then a list of filtered search results popsup allowing you to select one. Basically like you have with tags for posts/pages and even our very own events.

This does make for a great feature suggestion. It is the sort of thing that we have difficulty prioritizing though, because it is hard to tell how many people want the feature. If you want to increase the visibility of it so that people can vote on it and such, make sure to also add it to our User Voice page. That is the best place to make feature requests.

Let me know if there is anything else. If not, would you mind marking this resolved? Thanks, and thank you for taking the time to post this idea! Feedback is very helpful for us. 🙂

– Brook

[unhinged]

I don’t have high hopes for this actually getting any dev time. It isn’t a critical piece of functionality – the users can still do what they need to do, but it is slightly more demanding. I thought it was a good idea and figured I would pass it along. Maybe it’ll get in by v9.0 😉

[Brook]

It is a good idea and I am glad you did! We do have a number of users with some extremely giant sites. So we are always brainstorming ideas to have things scale. One thing we have been pushing hard for the past few months is squeezing every bit of performance we can out of the plugin, which is super helpful for the bigger sites.

While I doubt many other people will want what you requested specifically. I could see a number of them wanting a menu system that scales better across the board. Not just organizers, but venues and such as well. If you can think of anything else we should throw in there by all means. If I were you I would propose it as a group on user voice, instead of just upgrading the one little aspect. It broadens the appeal and helps keep the backend uniform.

Thanks again for the idea. If there is anything else you note that we can do to help the plugin scale, please let us know.

– Brook

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