Events

1. Add an Event
2. Pull an events listing onto a page
3. Video Tutorial
4. Pulling Events from CU Events Calendar

Add an Event

1. From within the Events tab on the left navigation, click Add Event.
2. Enter a title for your event.
3. Enter a blurb about the event in the content editing box
4. Scroll down to the Event Options just below the content editing box.
5. In the “When and Where” tab, add the date, start time and end time. If it is a multi day event, enter the end date. Lastly, add the location of your event.
6. In the “Details” tab you can choose whether or not to include the cost of the event, intended audience, and the contact information of the main contact for the event
7. You can choose to add your event to a category if necessary, however this is not required.
8. Click Save.
9. Publish the Page.

Pull an events listing onto a page

1. Add/edit the page on which you would like to put an events listing.
2. Click Insert Post Element located at the top of the new window.
3. Click the List Events icon.
   
4. If you categorized your event, you can select which event category(ies) will appear on your page. Otherwise all events will appear on the page.
5. If you would like to create a limit of events listed, show events from a specific date range, or change the sort order (ascending/descending), fill out the fields accordingly.
6. Update/Publish the page.

Video Tutorial

Pulling Events from CU Events Calendar

1. Get feed from events.carleton.ca

Note: You can pull in a single event or a category of events

• Login to events.carleton.ca
• Copy “Embed Link” URL from page on events.carleton.ca

Single event (copy URL):

Category (Right Click > Copy Link Address):

2. Pull feed into your website

• Click Add Shortcode > Endpoints
• Paste in URL

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