Event Overview
Documentation for the Events Menu
Events
This area contains the overview of your current, future, and past events. From here you can create and edit events as well as fine tune site-wide event settings.
Overview
Add New Event button – Found at the top of the page, this button will take you to the new event page.
Filters – Here you can select to view All Events, Events occurring today, or Events occurring this month. You can also filter events by month/year and by the event status.
The event lists itself shows lots of information at a glance:
- Event ID
- Event Name
- Venue Name
- Event Start Date
- Event Start Time
- Reg Begins (Registration start date and time)
- Status
- Attendees – shows a split figure: attendees registered/max. attendee limit
- Actions
The Actions icons allow quick access to important features
- View event
- Edit Event
- View Registrations for that event
- View reports
- Copy short URL
Also, when you hover your mouse over the individual event names, a sub menu appears
- View – view the event on the front end of your site
- Edit – edit the event
- Delete – delete the event. Note that events are not truly deleted and remain in your database and are accessible via the Deleted filter.
- Attendees – displays the attendee list for that event
Categories
You can create and manage Event Categories here.
Calendar Colors
Each category has a set of “Calendar Colors” options where you can set a background color and text color. These color settings can be used by the Calendar when displaying events. First, create your categories, set their colors, then assign one category to each event. The events assigned to a category will be displayed in the calendar using their selected category colors.
Event Categories are a custom WordPress taxonomy that automatically get displayed in a taxonomy archive. Event Category archives can be found at the following URL yoursite.com/event-category/your-category-slug.
Templates
You can change how the single event pages, the event lists, and the ticket selectors are displayed with the settings here. For example, if you want to move the Ticket Selector to the bottom of the event page, you set Use Custom Display Order? to Yes and drag and drop the Ticket Selector to the bottom of the Display Order.
Default Settings
These options are site wide, so all events are affected, unless otherwise over ruled in an individual event.
Default Registration Status – This value will be automatically filled in for each person’s registration status, until payment is made, for each event.
Default Tickets
You can trash any unneeded default tickets here. Note there must be at least one default ticket.
Customize the admin Event list table
You can change the amount of events that display per page and remove columns by clicking on the Screen Options tab on the upper right corner of the Events admin page. Each column’s visibility is controlled by a checkbox, and the Pagination (number of events per page) is controlled by inputting a number.