Events & Calendar

Events cover everything happening in the parish: fêtes, coffee mornings, litter picks, consultations. They appear on your website's Events page and on the calendar alongside council meetings.

Creating an event

1. Go to Content > Events in the menu.
2. Select New event.
3. Fill in the Details tab (see below).
4. Check the Publishing tab. Is published is already on, so the event goes live when you save. Switch it off if you want to save a draft instead.
5. Select Create.

The Details tab

Field	What to enter
Title	The name of the event.
Slug	The event's web address, made from the title when you create it. You can type your own: lower-case letters, numbers and hyphens. Changing it later stops links people have already shared from working.
Description	A short description, shown on event cards and listings.
Full Description	Optional. The full details for the event page: what's happening, who it's for, what to bring.
Start date, End date	When the event runs. Switch on All day if it has no set times.
Repeats	Does not repeat, Weekly or Monthly, with an optional Repeat until date. See Repeating events.
Location, Organizer	Where it's held and who's running it.
Contact email, Contact phone, Website	Optional contact details shown on the event page.
Category	Optional free text, such as Community or Sport. Events with the same category are shown together as related events.
Main Image	The picture for cards and the event page, with its alt text. Crop main image on the event page turns it into a banner.
Calendar icon	Optional. An icon the Calendar block shows instead of the event's picture.
Gallery, Documents	Extra pictures and files from the Media Library.
Cost, Cost description	The price, if any, and a note such as "Children free".
Booking required	Switch on if people must book, then give a Booking url, Booking phone or Booking email.
Map Location	Optional latitude and longitude to place the event on a map.

The Publishing tab

Field	What it does
Is featured	Lets an Events block show this event at the top, if the block is set to.
Is published	Must be on for the event to appear on the website. On by default; switch it off to keep the event as a draft.
Publish Date	Leave empty to publish as soon as you save, or pick a future date to schedule it.
Unpublish Date	Optional. The event comes off the website at this time. Past events otherwise stay on the calendar.
Display in event calendar	How the event looks on the calendar: Image and text, Just image, or No image (text only).

The SEO tab holds optional settings for search engines and social media. See SEO & Language.

The Events list

Select a column heading such as Start date to sort by it. The Status column shows Draft, Scheduled, Published or Expired, as for news. Deleted events can be brought back: set the Deleted records filter to show them, then select Restore. Only a super administrator can delete an event permanently.

The calendar

Your website has a calendar at /events/calendar that brings together two kinds of entry:

• Community Events: everything published in the Events section (in blue).
• Council Meetings: your meetings, pulled in automatically (in green).

Visitors can tick either box to show or hide each kind, and switch between month, week and list views. Phones show the list view. Selecting an entry opens its page. You can also put a calendar on any page with the Calendar block, choosing its heading, Default View and whether events and meetings show by default.

The admin dashboard has its own Events & Meetings Calendar. Selecting an entry there opens it for editing.

Repeating events

For an event that happens weekly or monthly, set Repeats instead of creating it again each time. Weekly repeats on the same weekday as the start date; Monthly on the same day of the month. Add a Repeat until date, or leave it empty for an open-ended series.

The event then appears on the calendars on each of its dates, at the same times. Events blocks show it once, with a "Weekly" or "Monthly" badge and its next date. It can help to say the pattern in the description too, for example "Every Wednesday morning".

Events on your pages

The Events page (/events) is an ordinary page built with the Events block, which has options for a Default Filter, Order by date, Show featured events at the top and Show Calendar Link. See Listing blocks.