Events

How to add an event

  1. Login to Wordpress
  2. Dashboard > Events
  3. If you will be including an address with the event, do the followinig first:
    1. Click "Locations" (in the left bar).
    2. If the location already exists in the list, you're done! Skip to #4 ("Add Event").
    3. Click "Add Location" (at the top).
    4. Enter the location name in the top input box.
    5. You can skip the next content box.
    6. Enter the address in the Where section:
      • IMPORTANT! For the location to be mappable on the Digital Signages, you must enter the room location in one of the following formats:
        • 38-138 E4
        • 2111 E5
        • 111 E6 or a111 E6
        • 2567 BH
    7. You can skip the Excerpt box.
    8. You can skip Featured Image.
    9. Click "Publish" button (at top-right) to save.
  4. Click "Add Event" (in the left bar or at the top).
  5. Enter the title in the top input box.
  6. Enter the event description in the next input box (the WYSIWYG editor)
  7. In the Where section, optionally choose a location from the dropdown.
  8. Optionally enter the excerpt in the Excerpt box. If an excerpt exists, it will be used in the events listing instead of the first part of the article.
  9. Optionally "Set featured image" (at right-bottom) and either select an image from the Media Library or upload a new image. Click "Set featured image" button to select the image.
    The ratio of ideal featured news images is approximately 3:2 in width:height (e.g. 600px by 400px).
  10. In the When block (at top-right), set the date(s).
  11. If this event is a seminar, you must also do the following:
    1. In the Event Categories block (at right and near bottom) click "seminar".
    2. In the Attributes section (at the very bottom), enter Speaker and Afflilation.
  12. If you'd like to add the event to the digital signage, add "signage" to tag.
    Note: You need to remove the tag manually after the event is over.
  13. Click "Publish" button (at right and near middle) to publish the event now. If you want to publish at a later date, click "Edit" next to "Publish immediately", set the date, click "Ok", and click "Schedule".
  14. Go to the home page and you should see the new event listed at the top in the Upcoming Events section (if you published immediately). Currently the latest 5 future events are displayed and there is a link at the bottom to "More Events". If you do not see the event you've added, then the Upcoming Events section could be set up wrong, so please read the section "How to set up the Upcoming Events section".

How to set up the Upcoming Events section

By default, this should have already been set up for you and you should not have to do this. However, if something is wrong, please follow the steps below.

  1. Dashboard > Pages
  2. Change "All categories" in the filter dropdown to "front_page" and click Filter.
  3. Mouse over the title "Home - Front page" and click "Edit" underneath.
  4. In the 2nd section, in the 2nd Text module, look for the triple bar and click on it.
  5. Go to the Text tab and enter exactly the following: 
    <h4>Upcoming Events</h4>

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<div id="custom_events_manager_list_on_home_page">[events_list limit="5"]#_EVENTLINK &lt;p&gt;#_EVENTDATES | #_EVENTTIMES&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;[/events_list]</div>
<div style="clear: both; margin-top: 20px;"><a href="/events">More Events &gt;</a></div>
  6. Save
  7. Update

Updated 20150625