Advanced Organizer Addon

The Advanced Organizer addon improves your organizing experience by offering dedicated pages for each Organizer. Use shortcodes to easily display Organizer lists wherever you need, providing seamless integration into your website. Additionally, you can easily showcase events linked to a particular Organizer within the shortcode.

You can use this add-on with either MEC Lite or Pro.

Advanced Organizer Addon Preparation

Installation

First, ensure that both MEC (Modern Events Calendar) and the Advanced Organizer Addon are installed and activated.

Activating Organizers

Please head over to MEC Settings > Event Module and make sure to enable the Organizer Module.

Advanced Organizer Addon Settings

After installing the Advanced Organizer Addon, you will see a new menu in MEC’s settings. We will explain each section here:

1. Single Page

When you install and activate the Advanced Organizer add-on, a new custom page is automatically created by the add-on, containing the [advanced-organizer-single-public] shortcode. 

This page serves as the single page for a specific organizer. When you click on an organizer from a single event page, the plugin directs you to this page, which includes all relevant information about that organizer, such as their name, address, website, phone number, and more.

If the page is not automatically created, you can manually create a custom page, add the [advanced-organizer-single-public] shortcode, and publish it. Then, in the Advanced Organizer add-on settings, choose this page from the dropdown menu under the Single Page option.

2. Organizer Default Settings

Organizer Skin

Choose a skin to display the Organizer list.

Organizer Event Skin

Choose a skin for displaying the organizers’ event list.

Event Limit

The number of Events to be displayed on the organizer’s event list.

Organizer Limit

The number of organizers to be displayed on the organizer’s list page.

Event Cols

Define the number of columns to display on the organizer’s event list.

Load More

Shows Load More Button on the event list page.

Show Event List

Show the event list on a single page.

Redirect the organizer title (conditional checkbox)

Redirect the organizer title to a single page.

Details Link

This option provides three ways to prioritize the redirection of the Organizer title:

• Website on Input: Redirects to the organizer’s website if entered.
• Force Single Page: Redirects to the organizer’s single page.
• Force Website Link: Redirects to the organizer’s website, ignoring the single page.

Redirect Link Target

Opens the events in a new window or the current window.

3. Available Shortcodes

In the Advanced Organizer Addon, there are three types of shortcodes:

• Single: For showing a single event with its properties. 
• List: For showing a list of all the available organizers.
• Featured: For showing organizers who have the Featured checkbox marked in their profile.

How to use Advanced Organizer shortcodes

To integrate shortcodes, simply copy and paste the shortcode onto the desired page. The shortcode is [organizer-list], which lists all the organizers added to your organizer taxonomy. 

Each option within the shortcodes operates independently, such as an ID. In the shortcode (formatted as id=”{Organizer_ID}”), replace {Organizer_ID} with a number, which can be found in the organizer taxonomy list.

For example, to enable the Load More option, use load_more=”{true/false}”. Replace {true/false} with the corresponding Boolean value, omitting the curly braces. The final shortcode should appear as load_more=”true” or load_more=”false”.

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Important Notes:

1. Ensure that you both open and close the double quotations, as it is essential.
2. Be attentive to spaces to prevent the shortcode from breaking.
3. You have the option to set no options. If completely omitted, nothing will happen.
4. Avoid using one or both of [] in the shortcode.
5. The presence of [] signifies to WordPress that you have executed a shortcode.
6. To leverage the features of each organizer, ensure that the specific organizer has content.
7. To access the widget, navigate to the Appearance > Widgets menu. Your widget will only be displayed if your page builder can recognize it.
8. The exclude option allows you to omit specific details from the shortcode items, such as a phone number. To exclude multiple items, use “,” as a separator.

This image displays the ultimate outcome of the single organizer page.

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