Events manager

[gusaus]

Describe the solution you'd like Many stations, publishers, and producers will need some sort of events manager to post events. Ideally, they'd be able to post events or pull from services like Eventbrite.

Describe alternatives you've considered I'm new to WordPress so I don't know what are recommended solutions. Considering many publishers have a need, it's possible Newspack could include this functionality. Might be worth checking around in their issue queue - possibly submitting a feature request. https://github.com/Automattic/newspack-plugin/issues https://github.com/Automattic/newspack-plugin/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md

[gusaus]

Per advise from @tonyzeoli, I'm testing out the free version of The Events Calendar -

• https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar/
• https://github.com/moderntribe/the-events-calendar
• https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/k/

Based on what it offers out of the box (it works with Gutenberg, Eventbrite integration and other goodies in their Pro version), and the expertise/resources provided the developer, I think this would be a good plug-in to include.

As noted in https://github.com/OpenProducer/openproducer/issues/17#issue-572984518, many publishers have a need for this type of feature. Maybe Newspack could recommend and potentially include - https://newspack.blog/support/plugins/#recommended-plugins

[gusaus]

The Events Calendar plugin breaks the archive/category layouts if you use their Default Template - it does work if you select one of the templates that ship with Newspack.

Still need to make some improvements for it to be DIY ready, but definitely good enough to include in the MVP OpenProducer/newspack-platform#11

That being said, I think we can close out this issue and create new ones for specific bugs and enhancements based on user needs and feedback.

[gusaus]

We've yet to follow up w/ the Newspack team to see if there's a plugin they recommend for their publishers.

That said, it looks like at least one is not only using the same plugin, but is experiencing the same issues as OpenProducer/newspack-platform#15

https://wausaupilotandreview.com/events/ https://wausaupilotandreview.com/events/month/?tribe-bar-date=2020-05-11

If this is what Newspack is recommending for events, possibly they can work a fix into their theme. https://github.com/Automattic/newspack-theme/issues

[gusaus]

Closing this issue as we're already including this plugin in the platform - https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar/

We do need to include in the installer, make some configuration changes, and resolve potential conflicts w/ other plugins/themes, but we can open new issues for those tasks.