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Creating Events

Creating events with Wicked Calendar is easy.  To start, make sure you’ve activated the Wicked Calendar plugin.  After the plugin has been activated, you should see a new menu item in your admin labeled ‘Events’.

Creating an Event

To create an event, simply click on ‘Events’ and then click the ‘Add New’ link in the left menu or the ‘Add New’ button near the top of the page.

Entering Event Information

Once you’ve clicked the ‘Add New’ button or link, you’ll be taken to a form that you can use to fill in your event information.  Give your event a title and enter any details about your event in the rich-text editor.  This information will be displayed on your event’s detail page.

Scroll down until you see a meta box labeled ‘Event Details’.  This is where you can specify details about your event such as the date and time, location, and organizers.

HINT: If for some reason you don’t see the ‘Event Details’ meta box, click the ‘Screen Options’ tab near the upper-right area of the screen and tick the ‘Event Details’ checkbox.

Setting a Date & Time

Use the ‘Date & Time’ section to enter your event’s start and end date.  If your event is an all day event, tick the box next to ‘All day’.  You can also specify the timezone that the event’s dates and times should be relative to.

HINT: If you haven’t already, you can set the default time zone on the Settings page in WordPress.

If you’re using Wicked Calendar Pro, you’ll also see an option labeled ‘Repeat this event’ that you can tick to make your event recurring.  Click here to learn more about recurring events.

Setting a Location

If you’d like, you can provide information about the location of the event.  When you save the event, this information will be saved for you as a Venue so that you can easily re-use it later for other events.  You can edit the venue’s information at any time by visiting Events > Venues.

Enabling the ‘Show Google map’ option will display the event’s location on a Google map on your event’s detail page.

Enabling the ‘Link to venue’ option will hyperlink the venue’s name on your event detail page to the detail page for the venue so that your visitors can see other events at the venue.  Disable this option if you don’t want the venue name to be linked.

Adding Organizers

Use the ‘Organizer’ section to provide information about the people organizing your event. If you’ve previously set up some organizers, you can select an existing organizer; otherwise you can create a new organizer.  When you create a new organizer, the organizer information will be saved as an Organizer so that you can easily re-use it later for other events.  You can edit an organizer’s information at any time by visiting Events > Venues.

HINT: You can add an unlimited number of organizers to your event.  Click the ‘Add another organizer’ link to add more.
HINT: You can drag and drop to control the order in which organizers are displayed.  Hover over the list icon to the left of an organizer, then click and drag to re-order.

To remove an organizer from an event, click the trashcan icon to the right of the organizer.  Note that clicking the trashcan icon will only remove the organizer from the event, it won’t delete the organizer from your database.  If you’d like to permanently delete an organizer, visit Events > Organizers.

Setting a Featured Image

Use the ‘Featured Image’ option to set the image that is displayed next to your event when it appears in a list.  The featured image will also be displayed on your event’s detail page.