[Plugin: Event Organiser] Feature Possibility?

  • Hi Stephen,

    I am working on a site for a festival that has acts/events/venues, I’ve looked most of the WP plugins and haven’t found one yet as nice and simple as yours yet with the required features ~ yours has all but one.

    I think there may be a number of people in my situation and I am wondering if you would consider replicating ‘Venues’ in your plugin as a second taxonomy ‘Act/Speaker/Artist’, that way it would be easier to:

    • Have ‘venue’ pages that listed events by ‘venue’
    • Have ‘Act/Speaker/Artist’ pages that list events by ‘Act/Speaker/Artist’

    It would be easy enough to use a category for the artist but then it seems toturous to enable images/galleies etc which would need to be on the artists taxonomy page. I like the way you have enabled the ‘venue’ taxonomy with these features.

    If I can help I’d be very happy to, either doing the coding or testing…

    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/event-organiser/

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  • Venues, as I think you know, are just a custom taxonomy. So typically the admin page is limited, and there is no metabox support.

    To give venues more features, I’ve implemented a custom page, complete with metaboxes and added a venue meta data table (similar to post meta data). WordPress makes this surprisingly easy – and has some helpful API. (I shall probably right an article on how to do this at some point…)

    However, this does mean features such as ‘featured image’ are not natively supported for venues – although they could be added (probably relatively painlessly if stored in the meta table).

    I took the decision to implement venues as taxonomy terms – since this worked well with the internals of WordPress (it makes sense to group events by venue). With artists you might consider it makes much more sense to have a custom post type ‘artist’ and then use post meta to link them to events (or vice versa).

    Which is the best method really it depends on your situation – partly for that reason, I won’t be introducing this into the ‘core’ of the plug-in (also, its an extra feature that I don’t think many need – I’ve tried to keep the plug-in as ‘light’ and wide-ranging as possible, while making it easy to extend). So I’m happy to leave this to someone else to make an add-on.

    As mentioned above, I will at some point write an article on how I created the venue page. I’ll link to it here when I have done so.

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