Will Community Events do this? (Devil's in the details…)

[Saif]

I am leary to jump into a product after experiencing Ai1ec…
…so I thought I’d ask these ahead of time.

I want to centralize all gaming event info into one place for a state. The site is a resource / calendar solution for gaming in an entire state. That’s what I’m trying to get it back to at least 😉

Needed:
Wordpress – unless it’s super, super perfect in other ways. My website is WP, want the calendar to be too.
OPEN EVENT SUBMISSION – is pretty much required. I need the ability for strangers to post to my calendar 🙂
Event Categories – for sure since there are at least 7 truly different groups
Recurring events supported
Map – displaying the location of the event on a map, on the event page.
QUALITY SEO URLS – not crap

Things that would be really nice:
Event Tags – would be nice; at this point I’m willing to substitute with searches hardcoded into pages…
Calendar view per category – would be nice. (embedding category A’s calendar view on one page, category B’s on another, etc. )
Newsletter integration – some sorta mail chimp love – just highlights?
Calendar Search
All Events on one map view
Facebook Event Calendar Syncing / addition
Event Comments
Event Comment notifications for the author when someone comments on their event.
Easy Social Media sharing
Customizing at least colors, if not layout

What package(s), if any will do this best?
I don’t need error tickets or ticket sales, so I’m assuming Community Events? Maybe that filter bar?

If yours won’t, do you have a suggestion of who will?

[Nico]

Hi there Saif,

Thanks for reaching out to us and also for your interest in our products! Let’s jump into your questions…

Needed:
Wordpress – unless it’s super, super perfect in other ways. My website is WP, want the calendar to be too.
OPEN EVENT SUBMISSION – is pretty much required. I need the ability for strangers to post to my calendar 🙂
Event Categories – for sure since there are at least 7 truly different groups
Recurring events supported
Map – displaying the location of the event on a map, on the event page.
QUALITY SEO URLS – not crap

• Our products are built just for WordPress.
• Open event submission: we have a specific add-on for that! Check out the Community Events product page for more details on how it works.
• Event Categories: we do have them!
• Recurring events & Map view: these are feature of Events Calendar PRO.
• Regarding event URLs, these are formed with the event slug. For example: http://sitename/event/super-soccer-match/

Things that would be really nice:
Event Tags – would be nice; at this point I’m willing to substitute with searches hardcoded into pages…
Calendar view per category – would be nice. (embedding category A’s calendar view on one page, category B’s on another, etc. )
Newsletter integration – some sorta mail chimp love – just highlights?
Calendar Search
All Events on one map view
Facebook Event Calendar Syncing / addition
Event Comments
Event Comment notifications for the author when someone comments on their event.
Easy Social Media sharing
Customizing at least colors, if not layout

• Tags: events use default WordPress tags, but you can easily create a new taxonomy (“Event Tags”) an assign it just to events.
• Category views: you can link users to category specific views, like http://sitename/events/category/soccer/ and you can also use PRO widget shortcodes to embed a mini calendar filtered by category.
• Newsletter integration: we do not have any built-in feature for this, but it might be achievable with some third-party extension or with an RSS-to-email plugin.
• Calendar Search: we have an ‘events bar’ with lets users search events by search term, date and distance.
• Map view: as stated above this is part of Events Calendar PRO.
• Facebook Events: there’s a add-on for this as well, check it out: Facebook Events.
• Event Comments & notifications: you can enable default WordPress Comments for events, so it works as comments on posts or pages.
• Easy Social Media sharing: we do not have any option for this, but this article explains how to do it: Adding social media sharing to events.
• Customizing colors: Events Calendar PRO integrates with WordPress customizer so you can tune colors in the calendar easily: PRO color customizer. If you want to go beyond that, our themer’s guide explains how to override template and stylesheets.

Which plugins do you need? So, from what you described as needed and as nice to have, you’ll surely need: Events Calendar PRO and Community Events. Adding Facebook Events or Filter Bar will surely tune up the site but they don’t seem to be critical for the core functionality you describe. We have some plugins bundles that might come handy!

Last but not least, we have a pretty great Refund Policy so you can buy one or many of our add-ons and thoroughly test them. If you are not happy with the results, you can ask for a refund within 30 days of purchase.

Please let me know if there’s anything else I can help you with,
Best,
Nico

[Saif]

Thank you for your prompt response; I was sorta expecting an email notification, so I am just now getting back to this 🙂

So, it looks like if I go with the importer bundle for $199, I’ll still need to pick up Community Events to achieve public event submission. Is there any sort of hint at what the yearly renewal will be for those 2? If I choose to not renew, am I going to be hacked out of existence a year and a month after I had purchased, or?

Thanks in advance.

[Saif]

Opps, left a few questions out:

Events bar – as in the Filter bar? Or is it a feature that comes with Event Calendar PRO?

Event Comments – so, a “facebook comments instead of WP comments” plugin would allow for those comments to be FB driven, correct? Have you seen those work fine with your product? (Any suggested ones?)

[Nico]

Hey Saif,

Thanks for following up!

So, it looks like if I go with the importer bundle for $199, I’ll still need to pick up Community Events to achieve public event submission.

Yeap.

Is there any sort of hint at what the yearly renewal will be for those 2? If I choose to not renew, am I going to be hacked out of existence a year and a month after I had purchased, or?

Renewals are offered at the original price, minus a discount which now is 30% but might vary in the future. Hopefully you’ll not be hacked if you do not renew your license, but as you would do with WordPress core you’ll try to be up to date for features, bug fixes and security as well. Personally I haven’t heard about this from old clients that are still using 3.10 or 3.12.

Events bar – as in the Filter bar? Or is it a feature that comes with Event Calendar PRO?

The events bar is part of The Events Calendar core/free version. Take a look: https://cloudup.com/c4o0KvR_X1x – If you have Events Calendar PRO activated in the site the bar will also show a Locations field to search events nearby.

Event Comments – so, a “facebook comments instead of WP comments” plugin would allow for those comments to be FB driven, correct? Have you seen those work fine with your product? (Any suggested ones?)

Well, it sounds like it should work, you can try any with The Events Calendar core/free, if it works with it mostly sure it will with our other plugins.

Please let me know about it,
Best,
Nico

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