{"id":26634,"date":"2012-10-15T12:55:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T19:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tri.be\/support\/forums\/topic\/bug-feature-cannot-use-an-existing-organizer-name\/"},"modified":"2015-07-07T06:26:12","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T13:26:12","slug":"bug-feature-cannot-use-an-existing-organizer-name","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/bug-feature-cannot-use-an-existing-organizer-name\/","title":{"rendered":"BUG \/ FEATURE: Cannot use an existing organizer name???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Modern Tribe:<\/p>\n<p>I took great pains to create a themed organizer profile in my client&#8217;s Eventbrite account. I then tried to publish a draft event to Eventbrite from the WordPress edit screen for the event, and I got this error message:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The following Eventbrite error has occurred:<\/strong> The organizer name already exists. Please enter a different organizer name and try again. Note that your event was not registered with Eventbrite as a result.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I want to use the existing organizer name, for which I already created a profile in Eventbrite. Why am I not allowed to do this?<\/p>\n<p>I consider this a bug. If this is intended as a feature, I must ask you to please consider changing the design. I should be able to reuse existing organizers. Isn&#8217;t that the whole point of creating an organizer profile?<\/p>\n<p>The workaround is to use a different organizer name, as instructed. This gets around the problem, but it is not how I want the plugin to behave. This is not the design I would choose if it were up to me.<\/p>\n<p>Can you please either change the plugin to remove this restriction or help me understand why this restriction is necessary?<\/p>\n<p>Thank you so much,<\/p>\n<p>Fred Chapman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-26634","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BUG \/ FEATURE: Cannot use an existing organizer name??? -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/bug-feature-cannot-use-an-existing-organizer-name\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BUG \/ FEATURE: Cannot use an existing organizer name??? -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dear Modern Tribe: I took great pains to create a themed organizer profile in my client&#8217;s Eventbrite account. 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