Pre sale question about categories & community involvement!

[Simon Ashley]

Hiya TEC community,

We have two restaurants close to each other in the UK. We support all local teams (ice hockey, softball, football, rugby & more) and I want to put a calendar on our website showcasing what’s on around and about in the sports world and the community in general. Questions as follows:

Am I able to categorise the events by destination and then by activity? I guess what I need to know is if I can have sub categories in my events. I’m assuming events are posts, so I assume this would be the case, but just checking.
Being over-worked and underpaid, I would ideally want the teams themselves to add their events themselves, How do I manage this? Obviously they could send me xls files to upload, but is there a way I can grant trusted local community members to help me populate my calendar without giving them access to wp-admin?

Kindest regards – Simon

[Caroline]

Hi Simon,

Thanks so much for your interest in our plugins! 🙂 I’d be more than glad to assist you with your questions here!

1. You’re absolutely right–since events created with The Events Calendar are defined as a custom post type within WordPress, they employ the same basic category functionality as other WordPress post types, including the ability to set up sub-categories. You might also consider using tags to add relevant details such as these to your events! You can read more about categories and tags as they apply to events in our Knowledgebase articles here and here.
2. Great question! Our add-on Community Events adds support for user-submitted events to calendars powered by The Events Calendar or Events Calendar PRO. Once you’ve installed and configured the plugin, it’s just a matter of linking to your event submission forms and publishing the submissions as they roll in. The product page linked above offers plenty of information to get you started learning about the plugin, and we’d be glad to answer any specific questions that you might have, as well!

I hope that helps to get you started here! Thanks again for reaching out, and let us know if there’s anything else that we can do for you!

[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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