Create an Event

TABLE DES MATIÈRES

• Icons and available settings
• Edit an event
• Add blocks
• Block options
• Practical information about the event
• Date
• Excerpt
• Website url
• Price
• Type
• Venue
• Organiser

To add or create an event, take the following steps :

1. Visit your dashboard
2. Click on Events on the left side
3. Click on the “Add Post” button

Here you are, this is the page builder!

The main / central zone of the page builder will get your content by using blocks. In the right of the screen stand the event page settings and the block(s) settings that are added to the event page.

Icons and available settings

This section is similar than the one regarding the post. Visit it for more information on icons and available settings, and go back here to get advice on how to edit your event.

Edit an event

To draft a new Event, take the following steps:

1. Give your post a title by typing it in the box at the top that says, “Add title“. This title will be the event title and will be visible within the slug (url) of the event page
2. Click on the + block inserter icon to add a block that will receive your content
3. Click on the pencil button, in the right corner of the block, to edit its content

4. Display the blocks, texts and images as you wish
5. Indiquez les informations pratiques de l’événement

6. Add type(s) (such as Family, Children, Night, Day, Free, etc.), organiser(s) and venue(s) to filter all your events
7. Add / edit an excerpt

8. Set a featured image
9. Publish and share it with the world !

Add blocks

Creating an event and a post are similar. Visit the page on how to add a block within a page of a post.

Block options

All block options on a event page are similar to the one of a post page. Visit the page on what are the blocks options should you wish to know how to copy, edit, delete, view, remove, etc. blocks on a event page.

Practical information about the event

Each event is linked to information that will, among other things, allow them to be displayed in a specific order in the list of all events.

Below the page builder, information regarding the date(s), the price and an url can be added.

Date

• Click on Add a new date button

• Set a start and end date for your event by clicking on Start date and then End date. Each time, a calendar will open where you can select a year, month, and day.
• Not all day-long event? : If your event does not last all day but only a few hours, check the box “The event doesn't last all day long.”
• Then choose a start and end time.

• Same event, but multiple dates : You can add for a same event, multiple dates. For example, there is a theatrical performance on January 1 and then another on January 16.
• You can reorder the date by dragging and dropping the frames.
• To delete a date, click on the - button on the right sight of the frame

Excerpt

This short description will appear on the block event and also when the link to the entire page is shared.

Website url

Copy the booking URL here, if there is one, or the URL of a page that provides detailed information about the event (i.e a YouTube link)

Price

Type here a price information :

• Examples: “free”, “10euros”, “10€”,

Type

These are categories that can be used to filter events on the page listing upcoming events.

Venue

These are categories that can be used to filter events on the page listing upcoming events.

Organiser

These are categories that will eventually allow you to filter events on the page listing upcoming events.

Type, Location and Organiser are content objects that can be edited separately from the side navigation bar within the ‘Events’ tab.