Require E-Mail Address for Community Events

[Medstro]

I would like to require people to give me their email address when submitting a community event. Currently, I can’t see a way to do this. Is there a way to do this?

[Geoff]

Hello James,

The best way to go about this would be to disable anonymous users from submitting events in the Community Events settings. That would force a user to sign in prior to creating an event and it links those submissions to the user who submitted them, including their email address.

Does this make sense and will it work for you? Please let me know. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

[Medstro]

I thought about that but I don’t want to force people to sign up for a full account on my WordPress instance just to submit an event. Also, I’d rather not have all those user accounts, since I currently don’t use the WordPress subscriber feature for any other part of the site.

You should develop the ability to add custom fields to the form. That would be useful for everyone.

[Geoff]

Thanks for following up, James! That’s an interesting idea for sure and I’d encourage you to submit it to our feature request forum. In the meantime, I’m afraid a WordPress account is the only sure way to force an email on event submission.

Did you have any other questions about the Community Events form and email addresses? If so, please let me know and I’d be happy to help as best I can.

Cheers,
Geoff

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