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Buddypress Setup

Events Manager allows BuddyPress users to manage their events from the front-end your website. Aside from this, your users also can create group events and manage these together.

When both plugins are installed, users will see a new Events menu automatically added to their BuddyPress profile menus. What options they see depends on the permissions they have assigned to their user role from Events > Settings > User Capabilities in the admin area.

Users with limited capabilities will only see relevant menu items.

User Event Management​

My Profile

Available to all users, and is the only public page accessible by other members/guests. Shows a list of events the user is hosting, as well as events they may be attending.

Events Dashboard/Profile page on Buddypress installations

Events I'm Attending

This is the same interface as non-buddypress installations use for logged in users e.g. httpx://yoursite.com/events-page/my-bookings/

Events I'm Attending page on Buddypress installations

My Events (Add/Edit Events)

This is the equivalent to the Add/Edit Events interface in the admin area. You can add a new event by clicking the 'add new' link next to the page title. Note that admins will only see events they own, and not all user events like in the admin area.

When an event is published, the event will also appear on the main Events Page (unless you are filtering events).

My Events page on Buddypress installations

My Locations

This is equivalent to the Add/Edit Locations interface in the admin area. Note that admins will only see their locations and cannot view other user locations in this interface, unlike in the admin area.

My Locations page on Buddypress installations

My Event Bookings

This is equivalent to the Add/Edit Locations interface in the admin area. Note that admins will only see their locations and cannot view other user locations in this interface, unlike in the admin area.

My Event Bookings page on Buddypress installations

Group Events​

Group admins can attach events to their group, allowing other group admins to also manage the event and bookings (if allowed). Creating a group event is just like creating a normal event, except that you will have the option of choosing a group to assign the event to.

Group Events page on Buddypress installations

Once you attach an event to a group, it cannot be unattached. Other group admins will also see the event in their event management panels.

Activity Stream and Notifications​

When a user books a place at an event, cancels it, or creates an event, the activity stream is updated. When someone books or cancels a booking for your event, you will also have a notification within the standard buddypress notifications area.

An activity stream of a user using Events Manager

Modifying Page Layouts​

All Buddypress page layouts can be modified using template files, which means you can modify the look from your theme folder and not directly modify the plugin. These folders/files are used by EM in BuddyPress:

  • templates/buddypress/ - all these files represent pages in buddypress
  • templates/templates/my-bookings.php - used in the "Events I'm Attending" screens
  • templates/forms/event-editor.php - the add/edit event screen
  • templates/forms/location-editor.php - the add/edit locations screen