Venues & Organizers
Eventonomy maintains a shared catalog of venues and organizers. Any event can reference an existing catalog entry, so you enter the details once and reuse them without retyping.
What You Will Learn
- What the Venue and Organizer catalogs are
- How to add a venue or organizer when creating an event
- How to reuse an existing venue or organizer
- How to manage catalog entries from the admin
- How venues and organizers appear on the frontend
What the Catalog Is
The Venue catalog (evnm_venues) stores reusable location records: name, address, city, country, and website URL. The Organizer catalog (evnm_organizers) stores reusable profile records: name and website URL.
When an event saves with a venue or organizer, Eventonomy finds or creates the matching catalog row and links the event to it via a foreign key. If an identical record already exists (matched on normalized name + city), the existing row is reused, with no duplicates.
Adding Venue & Organizer When Creating an Event
In the event editor, you will find two sections:
Venue
- Start typing a venue name in the Venue field.
- A dropdown shows matching entries from your catalog as you type.
- Select an existing venue to fill in name and address automatically, or finish typing to create a new one.
- Optionally edit the address after picking.
Organizer
- Start typing an organizer name in the Organizer field.
- Select an existing organizer or type a new name.
- Add a URL if relevant (the organizer's website or profile).
Both fields browse the catalog as soon as you click into them, before you have typed anything, so you can see what already exists rather than guessing. Picking an entry fills the rest of that section for you (address, city, country, website); you can still edit any of it afterwards.
Managing the Catalog from Admin
Venues
Go to Eventonomy → Venues to:
- Browse all venues with their usage count (how many events reference each one), whether they are verified, and when they were created.
- Filter by All / Verified / Unverified, search by name, and sort by name or newest first.
- Add a venue yourself, rather than waiting for a member to create one.
- Edit a venue's details - the change updates every event that references it.
- Merge two venues into one (e.g. if the same location was entered with a slightly different name).
- Verify a venue to mark it as confirmed and accurate, or unverify it again.
- Delete a venue. This is allowed even when events still use it: the confirmation tells you how many events are affected before you go ahead.
The list is paginated, so a catalog with thousands of entries stays usable.
Organizers
Go to Eventonomy → Organizers to manage organizer records in exactly the same way.
Members Manage Their Own
Organizers do not need wp-admin for this. The Venues & organizers section of
the member dashboard (/manage-events/) lets a member edit the venues and
organizers they added, without touching anyone else's.
Note: Deleting a catalog entry that is still referenced by events will not delete the events. The events retain a JSON snapshot of the venue/organizer details for display, so existing event pages continue to show the correct information even after a catalog row is removed.
How Venues and Organizers Appear on the Frontend
On the single-event page, the venue name, address, and city are shown below the event date. If Settings → Display → Show organizer on the single event is on, the organizer name appears alongside.
The venue.city field is indexed and filterable; visitors can use the search filter to find events by city without full geocoding.
Pro - If Maps & geocoding is active, a venue with a geocoded address (
lat/lng) shows an embedded map on the single-event page. See Maps & Week/Day Views.
What's Next?
Configure RSVPs so attendees can register for your events.