How to Edit or Cancel an Event, and Tell Attendees in Eventonomy

How to edit or cancel an event in Eventonomy, and what your attendees are told, step by step. Open the event from Eventonomy, then Events with Edit, change it and click Update event. To cancel, tick the event, choose Cancel event in Bulk actions and click Apply: the event stays on your site marked Cancelled. Everyone registered (going, maybe or on the waitlist) is emailed when an event is cancelled, or when its start time or venue changes.

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In this tutorial you will edit an event, cancel an event, and see what your attendees are told. You need the free Eventonomy plugin. Step four shows a screen from Eventonomy Pro. It takes about three minutes. There are five steps. Open the event. Change it and update. Cancel an event. See what attendees are told. Then see the cancelled event. Step one. Open the event. In your WordPress admin, open Eventonomy, then Events. Search events finds it by name. Click Edit on its row. The event opens on its Details tab, with the form filled in. Step two. Change it and update. Change any field. Here Starts moves from ten in the morning to eleven. Then click Update event, on the right. The change is live on your site at once. A new start time or a new venue on a published event is emailed to everyone registered. That is people who are going, maybe, or on the waitlist. Step three. Cancel an event. Back in Events, tick the box on the row of the event. Open Bulk actions, above the list, and choose Cancel event. Then click Apply, and confirm. The event is not deleted. It stays on your site marked Cancelled, and everyone registered is emailed. To undo a cancel, open the cancelled event and click Publish event. Attendees are not emailed again. Step four. See what attendees are told. The free plugin sends the emails. With Eventonomy Pro, Settings has a section named Email templates. This one is Event cancelled. Live preview, on the right, shows the email as an attendee gets it. Event updated is the email for a new time or a new venue. Step five. See the cancelled event. This is a cancelled event, as a visitor sees it. Its page is still there, and reads, This event has been cancelled. Registration is closed. In place of the form it reads, This event was cancelled. That is all five. The event opened, changed and updated, an event cancelled, the emails your attendees get, and the cancelled event on your site. You can now change or cancel an event and know who hears about it. Next in this series: Add an agenda to an event.