The Events Calendar – Community Events 5.0.15

Overview

The Events Calendar - Community Events is a powerful WordPress plugin designed to transform your website’s event calendar into a vibrant, user-driven hub. With this tool, you can empower your visitors and community members to submit their own events directly through your website, creating a diverse and constantly updated calendar without the burden of manual data entry. Whether you run a local community portal, an organizational website, or a membership platform, this plugin streamlines event curation while giving you full control over what appears on your calendar.

What sets The Events Calendar - Community Events apart is its seamless integration with The Events Calendar core plugin, allowing you to maintain editorial oversight with easy-to-manage publishing controls. Additionally, the plugin supports advanced ticketing workflows through integration with Event Tickets Plus and WooCommerce, enabling event organizers within your community to sell tickets and generate revenue—all while you benefit from built-in fee collection and split payment capabilities. This makes Community Events not only a tool to enrich your event offerings but also a smart monetization platform that fosters user engagement and drives additional income.

Key Features

• User-Submitted Event Forms: Enable your visitors to easily submit events via a simple front-end form, eliminating manual event entry and encouraging community-driven content growth.
• Publishing Control & Moderation: Decide whether events go live immediately or require review first, giving you full editorial control to maintain quality and relevance on your calendar.
• Registered User Options: Allow anonymous submissions or restrict event posting to registered users, depending on your community engagement and security needs.
• Spam Protection with reCAPTCHA: Integrated with industry-standard reCAPTCHA technology to safeguard your event submission forms from spam and automated bots, ensuring a clean and valuable event feed.
• Ticket Sales & Revenue Sharing: Through integration with Event Tickets Plus and WooCommerce, let event organizers create and sell tickets directly on your site while you collect fees or split revenue, turning your calendar into a revenue-generating asset.
• Flexible Fee Structures: Set fees on a per-ticket, per-event, or per-sale basis with options to include fees in the ticket price or display them separately, providing transparent monetization tailored to your business model.
• Split Payment System: Automatically divide ticket sale proceeds between you and event organizers at the moment of purchase, streamlining payments and encouraging collaborative event management.
• Saved Venues and Organizers: Manage and restrict submissions to pre-approved venues and organizers or allow your community to add new ones, maintaining consistency and data integrity.
• Email Notifications: Receive instant notifications when new events are submitted, keeping you informed and responsive to community activity.
• Customizable Submission Form Placement: Use the automatically generated submission page or embed the event submission form anywhere on your WordPress site with a simple shortcode, providing flexibility in design and user experience.