Wow – loving what I see, but have a few questions

[Becky]

I’m overwhelmed with what I see with The Events Calendar.
Overwhelmed, excited, all of the above:)
Anyways, I am trying to create a community site for my town and wondered if the TEC can do the following and/or what plugins I may need to do what I need it to:
1. Can users login with facebook?
2. If so, are their avatars imported?
3. What widgets are available?
4. Facebook events – is that for Admin or users?
5. Is there a way to generate revenue – like a “featured post”?
6. Are there themes that work better than others?
7. Can you add a default image for each category if user does not post one?
8. Can you color code categories?
Many thanks!
Becky

[Leah]

Hi Becky,

Thanks for getting in touch and for your interest in The Events Calendar/Events Calendar PRO. They are pretty sweet plugins if I do say so myself 🙂

1. Can users login with facebook?
2. If so, are their avatars imported?

Any user login in features will depend on your WordPress site’s user setup and plugin configurations. Our plugins do not themselves allow user login, etc., but work with the existing WP features. Many of our users use another plugin like BuddyPress to add user functionality to their site. Any Facebook or avatar integration would depend on the other plugin’s features.

3. What widgets are available?

The Events Calendar comes with a basic upcoming events widget. Events Calendar PRO comes with an Advanced List widget as well as a Calendar widget. You can check those out on the product page. In PRO 3.0 (coming soon) there is also a countdown widget and venue widget.

4. Facebook events – is that for Admin or users?

Facebook Events allows site admins to import events from Facebook.

5. Is there a way to generate revenue – like a “featured post”?

There is not a revenue generating feature built into the plugin, although it might be possible to get something similar with a third party plugin or some custom coding.

6. Are there themes that work better than others?

Yes and no. We make sure our plugins work with the default WordPress themes, and work hard to make sure they are as versatile and adaptable as possible to work with a wide variety of themes. However, due to the sheer number of themes possibilities out there, we cannot guarantee that the plugin will work 100% with your theme, or that it’ll look perfect right out of the box. We recommend that you try your theme of choice with the free core plugin before upgrading to PRO. If it looks nice with The Events Calendar, it’s very likely that it’ll look good with PRO as well.

7. Can you add a default image for each category if user does not post one?

I’m not sure I understand what you mean- there isn’t a way to have images for categories, although you can have images for events, venues, and organizers. In that case yes, you can add those from the backend.

8. Can you color code categories?

Yes! In fact, one of our fans wrote a free add-on plugin that does just this. You can download it here.

Hopefully that’s answered all your questions. Let me know if I can be of any further help.

Cheers,
Leah

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