Is there an alert system for events

[Mari Lavin]

Hello. Nice plug in. Wondering if The Events Calendar has an alert system that will send a registered user an email an alert when a an event in their chosen category is newly added to the calendar? Thank you.

[Caroline]

Hi Mari,

Thanks for stopping by (and thanks for paying us a compliment, as well)! 🙂 While we don’t offer any built-in solutions for allowing users to subscribe to new event notifications, you can add in this functionality by way of the third-party plugin Events Calendar Newsletter. For more information on this plugin and how to implement this feature on your site, you can check out this post over on our UserVoice forum:

https://tribe.uservoice.com/forums/195723-feature-ideas/suggestions/4511607-allow-users-to-subscribe-to-calendar-via-email

We also offer RSS feeds for calendar events, including category-specific feeds, so your users can easily subscribe to a category feed from their feed reader of choice. Or your readers can simply add your RSS feed URL(s) to an RSS-to-email application (such as Blogtrottr) and receive email notifications when new posts are added to that category!

To grab the RSS feed for any event category, simply add /feed to the end of your category URL. For example, if you wanted to retrieve an RSS feed for the “WP Meetups” category on our WP Shindig demo site, you’d add /feed to wpshindig.com/events/category/wp-meetups to get wpshindig.com/events/category/wp-meetups/feed.

I hope that helps! Thanks again, and let me know if you should have any other questions!

[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

[Author]

Posts