Submitting events to multiple calendars across multisite?

[Mark]

We have a website which covers events for lots of different towns/areas. We’d love to use Events Calendar pro.

At the moment the site is not in WordPress, but the new site will be. Each geographical area has its own ‘mini site’, so each area needs its own calendar with events for that area. With maybe around 60 areas it might be too much to have 60 categories, one category for each area and then showing a calendar view based on the category?

Instead I was thinking about multisite but we want to give people the chance to submit an event to more than one calendar/area, it wouldn’t make sense to have to replicate event submissions across multiple areas. Any idea if that would be possible with custom work? Again there might be challenges with managing the events after submission.

I’d really appreciate your opinion as Events Calendar pro would be great for this project.

Obviously our next step might be to contact developers, but wondered if you had heard of this situation before with others and if you could make any recommendations?

[Geoff]

Hey Mark,

Thanks for getting in touch! This sounds like a great project and I hope that Events Calendar PRO will be a nice fit. 🙂

Events Calendar PRO sadly does not have a way to submit events across a multisite like this. However, I’m wondering if there is a good workaround here.

For example, you could treat one site on the network as the main hub for events and submit all events there. Using that as a master calendar, you can use our Event Aggregator service on the other sites to pull events into them.

Event Aggregator is already built into The Events Calendar. In other words, you purchase a license for it, enter the license into the Events > Settings > Licenses screen and that unlocks the options to import events on the Events > Import screen. In this case, that unlocks the ability for you to enter the URL of the master calendar, set the frequency of import, then let Event Aggregator fetch the events on an automated schedule.

What do you think about that as an idea for distributing events between sites on a multisite network? Do you think that would do the trick?

Cheers!
Geoff

[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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