Features

The following is brief summary of Event Organiser’s features. If you have any suggestions for other features, or certain features to be developed, please use the request a feature forum.

Events

Event admin screen

Event admin screen, event listing


Admin Calendar

Calendar View admin screen

  • Adds an event custom post type that fits naturally into WordPress and allows for all the functionality of ‘posts’.
  • Admin Calendar view, displays your events on a calendar which allows you to create and edit events.
  • Create one-time events or reoccuring events
  • Allows complex reoccuring patterns for events. You can create events that last an arbirtary time, and repeat over a specified period. Events can repeat daily through to yearly, allowing complex schedules such as ‘On the third Tuesday of every fourth month’ or ‘Every month on the 16th’
  • Assign events to categories, and view events by category
  • Custom permissions allow to specifiy which roles have the ability to create, edit and delete events.
  • Export events to .ics file
  • Import events from .ics file
  • Supports ‘pretty permalinks’ for event pages, event archives, event category and venue pages

Venues

Venue page

View of a venue page on the front-end


Venue creation admin screen

Venue creation admin screen

  • Venue admin page to add and maintain the venues for your events.
  • Google maps integration. Event Organiser uses the supplied address to store latitude-longtitude co-ordinates, allowing shortcodes to use Google maps to display a map of the venue
  • Venue pages, to view events by venue
  • Venue’s can be given a description using WordPress’ TinyMCE word editor
  • ‘Manage venues’ permission to give certain roles the ability to create, edit and delete venues.

Widgets & Short Codes

  • The Calendar widget displays a calendar (identical to the standard WordPress Calendar) that highlights events with links to the events archive page, listing events occuring that day.
  • The Event List widget outputs a list of events, and allows you to specify the number of events, restrict to event categories or venues and their order etc.
  • The ‘full’ calendar shortcode which displays a public-version of the admin calendar.
  • The Calendar and Event List shortcodes, similiar to their respective widgets, for use in themes or in posts and pages.
  • The Venue map shortcodes to display a map of a venue