Title: Event-O-Matic
Author: Matthew
Published: <strong>16 January 2011</strong>
Last modified: 2 March 2018

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# Event-O-Matic

 By [Matthew](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mjgarvi/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/event-o-matic.zip)

 * [Details](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/event-o-matic/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/event-o-matic/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/event-o-matic/#installation)
 * [Development](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/event-o-matic/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/event-o-matic/)

## Description

Event-O-Matic has been rewritten for WordPress 4. View details below.

The Event-O-Matic is an amazing plugin that allows rapid publishing of event listings
to your website. Event-O-Matic allows your users to submit their own events and 
gives you the ability to moderate these events as they arrive to your site. Edit
or reject submitted events and add them to your listings for the ultimate social
driven event service. Event-O-Matic is also fully integrated with Google Maps to
give each event clear location information within your city. View more information
[here](http://garvinmedia.com/eom).

Other features:

 * Easy media upload for events.
 * Sidebar widget with upcoming events listings.
 * Admin Dashboard for quick status previews.
 * Updated Google Maps Geolocation service.
 * Exportable to iCal formats

## Installation

Installing is simple.

 1. Upload directory `event-o-matic` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory.
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
 3. Browse to Appearance > Menus in the admin and click add “Upcoming Events” to your
    menu.
 4. Place shortcode `[eom-form]` in a page to display event submission form.

## FAQ

  Installation Instructions

Installing is simple.

 1. Upload directory `event-o-matic` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory.
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
 3. Browse to Appearance > Menus in the admin and click add “Upcoming Events” to your
    menu.
 4. Place shortcode `[eom-form]` in a page to display event submission form.

  How do I add a form for public event submissions?

Create a new page and add the shortcode [eom-form] to the page body.

  How do I add a listing of events to a page?

Previous versions used a shortcode for this, but now all you need to do is browse
to Appearance > Menus and click the Upcoming Events checkbox under Event-O-Matic
to add the events page.

  I don’t like how the events are styled. How can I change them?

The event listing page contains several classes that allow you to set styles within
your own stylesheet. Override these classes to set your own visual style. View page
source for details.

## Reviews

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/5f10f45b70f5757eb3f1d5be39d36acfa6adb056ab4a7f5d708dc62bf0e73de2?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Not plug and play](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-plug-and-play/)󠁿

 [bandora](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bandora/) 3 September 2016

The plugin looked simple and easy to set up at a glance but I could never get the
form short code to work. A glance at the support forum showed me that recent posts
have gone more than a month without a response so I have decided to pursue a different
solution instead.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/563d09c5bbde3e15fe8c7606dcbbd756f2fc2c5b60e3487a5526290a35e35c2d?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Need to change title from BLOG ARCHIVES](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-to-change-title-from-blog-archives/)󠁿

 [chrisccx.net](https://profiles.wordpress.org/chrisccxnet/) 3 September 2016

If I could do this and take off the COMMENT Box, I would be thrilled. Also need 
to also public to submit events.

 [ Read all 4 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/event-o-matic/reviews/)

## Contributors and Developers

“Event-O-Matic” is open source software. The following people have contributed to
this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Matthew ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mjgarvi/)

[Translate “Event-O-Matic” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/event-o-matic)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/event-o-matic/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/event-o-matic/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/event-o-matic/) 
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/event-o-matic/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Change Log

#### 6.0

 * Updates to date function.

#### 6.0

 * Code rewrite.

#### 5.7

 * Custom taxonomy update.

#### 5.6

 * iCal formats added.

#### 5.5

 * eom-event shortcode no longer used. Add event directly within the wordpress menu
   panel.
 * select how many events to show on event listing page.

#### 5.4

 * Unique submission restriction enabled. Allow only one place with a similar name
   to exist at the same address.

#### 5.3

 * Filetype restriction for image upload
 * Corrected event sorting within admin pages
 * Place submission now available on public event pages. Enable by selecting in 
   settings on admin menu.

#### 5.1

 * Import capability added.

#### 5.0.1

 * Internationalized formatting for plugin.
 * Total rewrite to embrace custom post type capability.

#### 4.5

 * WP Prepare warning fixed.

#### 4.2

 * Media uploader modified and streamlined.

#### 3.1

 * Media uploader added.

#### 3

 * Major updates to event and venue management.

#### 2.8

 * User, Venue searching

#### 2.7

 * Preferred Eventes feature added

#### 2.6

 * Added event list image feature

#### 2.5

 * Major trunk rewrite, new features added and optimized for WordPress 3.

#### 2.4

 * Update JS
 * Line breaks on event description.

#### 2.3

 * Updated shortcode output, fixing the “forms show up before page content” bug.
 * Widget now links to events.

#### 2.2

 * Geolocation service completely rewritten. Now using Google Maps v3.

#### 2.1

 * Critical update to event pagination.

#### 2

 * Updates to js libraries.
 * Updates to admin interface.
 * Total rewrite of EOM. Code optimization, major rewrite of EOM class structure
   for more efficient processing.

#### 1.0

 * Public release to WordPress.org

## Meta

 *  Version **6.0.1**
 *  Last updated **9 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.9.34**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/event-o-matic/)
 * Tags
 * [Event](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/event/)[events](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/events/)
   [location](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/location/)[places](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/places/)
   [widget](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/event-o-matic/advanced/)

## Ratings

 3.5 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  2 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/event-o-matic/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  0 4-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/event-o-matic/reviews/?filter=4)
 *  [  0 3-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/event-o-matic/reviews/?filter=3)
 *  [  2 2-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/event-o-matic/reviews/?filter=2)
 *  [  0 1-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/event-o-matic/reviews/?filter=1)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Matthew ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mjgarvi/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/event-o-matic/)

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