Eventonomy

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.

Admin Venues page showing the venue catalog with usage counts

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 - no duplicates.

Adding Venue & Organizer When Creating an Event

In the event editor, you will find two sections:

Venue

  1. Start typing a venue name in the Venue field.
  2. A dropdown shows matching entries from your catalog as you type.
  3. Select an existing venue to fill in name and address automatically, or finish typing to create a new one.
  4. Optionally edit the address after picking.

Organizer

  1. Start typing an organizer name in the Organizer field.
  2. Select an existing organizer or type a new name.
  3. Add a URL if relevant (the organizer's website or profile).

If you have organized events before, the editor also offers a Reuse a past organizer and Reuse a past venue selector, pre-filled with venues and organizers from your own previous events.

Managing the Catalog from Admin

Venues

Go to Eventonomy → Venues to:

  • Browse all venues with their usage count (how many events reference each one).
  • Search by name or city.
  • 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/accurate.
  • Delete a venue that has no events referencing it.

Organizers

Go to Eventonomy → Organizers to manage organizer records in the same way.

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.

RSVPs →