How can you make the Organizer default be the logged in user who's submitting?

[Joanna]

Hi,
Is there a way to make the Organizer default be the user who is submitting the event?
(Assuming that the user who is submitting the event is logged in already)

Thank you for any insight!

[Cliff]

Hi again, Joanna.

Technically, an Organizer is a custom post type, not a WordPress user.

The https://theeventscalendar.com/extensions/hide-others-organizers-and-venues-in-community-events/ extension can come in handy to show users only the Organizers and Venues they previously created.

However, we do not have a “select Organizer 12 as the default for User 82” snippet or extension.

Please let me know if you have any follow-up questions on this topic.

[Joanna]

Hi,

Ok. Since you are accepting feature requests maybe that can be added as a suggestion then?

Reason being is because if user Alex creates an event… the event should automatically be under his account

Why? In order to a. Not be redundant by having to then scroll find/pick Alex … its an extra and redundant step
b. Prevent Alex from choosing organizer Bob etc

[Cliff]

Events created by WordPress user Alex would appear to him at /events/community/list

Organizers and Venues created by WordPress user Alex–such as “Alex the Organizer” and “The Corner Store”–are clickable when in that list view.

If you implement the Extension I mentioned, all his events would have clickable Organizers and Venues because they would all be his own, not using anyone else’s.

Additionally, he wouldn’t even see “Bob the Organizer” because he didn’t create “Bob the Organizer”. However, WordPress user Bob would see Bob the Organizer when adding or editing an event.

The missing piece is that you want WP user Alex to have “Alex the Organizer” selected by default when adding a new event. While this is likely possible, technically, there’s not a snippet I have for that at this time.

You could request this as a new feature (or maybe search to see if the idea was already posted by someone else) at our plugins’ UserVoice page.

This allows others who are interested in that feature to easily voice their support. We frequently review suggestions there to find out which ones are popular, then we implement as many of them as we can.

If you post it / find it, feel free to link to it from here in case anyone comes across this forum thread in the future.

[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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