How to Sync a Calendar In From an ICS Feed or Eventbrite in Eventonomy

How to sync a calendar into Eventonomy Pro from an ICS feed or Eventbrite, step by step. Open Eventonomy, then Sync Sources and use Add a site-wide feed: pick iCalendar URL as the Source, paste the calendar's public .ics address, choose a Sync cadence, and decide whether imported events publish straight away or are saved as drafts for review. A Google Calendar works through its public address in iCal format, with no Google sign-in. Preview reads the calendar, and Add feed saves it and runs its first sync at once. Each sync brings in new events, updates the ones already imported, and cancels the ones removed from the calendar.

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In this tutorial you will sync a calendar into Eventonomy, from an I C S feed or from Eventbrite. You need Eventonomy Pro, and a calendar with a public I C S address, or an Eventbrite account. It takes about four minutes. There are six steps. Open Sync Sources. Paste a calendar address. Choose how events arrive. Read the list of feeds. Set up Eventbrite and member sync. Then connect a calendar as a member. Step one. Open Sync Sources. In your WordPress admin, open Eventonomy, then Sync Sources. It holds every calendar feed that syncs into your site. The first card is Add a site-wide feed, for a calendar the owner adds for the whole site. Step two. Paste a calendar address. Source has two choices: iCalendar URL, and Eventbrite. Leave it on the first. In Calendar URL, paste the public address of the calendar. It ends in dot I C S. A Google Calendar works the same way. Make it public, then paste its public address in iCal format. There is no Google sign-in. Step three. Choose how events arrive. Sync cadence is how often the calendar is read again: Hourly, Daily, Weekly or Monthly. Imported events decides what happens to them. Publish straight away, or Save as drafts for review. Category and Organizer are optional. They file every imported event under one category or organizer. Preview reads the calendar and says how many events it holds. Add feed saves the feed and runs its first sync straight away. Step four. Read the list of feeds. All feeds lists every feed on the site, yours and your members'. It has columns such as Source, Owner, Cadence, Last run and Status. Sync now reads the calendar again at once. New events come in, events already here take the calendar's changes, and events removed from it are cancelled. There are no copies. Remove disconnects the feed. The events it imported stay on your site. Step five. Set up Eventbrite and member sync. Open Settings, then Connections. Eventbrite has no calendar address. Paste your Eventbrite private token here, and click Save changes. Then go back to Sync Sources, and add a feed with Eventbrite as the Source. In the Calendar Sync card above it, the first setting lets members connect their own calendars. It starts ticked. The second names the author of events that come from your site-wide feeds. Step six. Connect a calendar as a member. Now sign in as a member. In the member dashboard, Connect and Import has a shorter form, for the member's own calendar. The member picks a Source, pastes a Calendar URL, and sets Keep in sync. Import and sync brings the events in as that member's own. They arrive as drafts, unless your review settings say otherwise. That is all six. Sync Sources, a calendar address, how events arrive, the list of feeds, Eventbrite and member sync, and the member side. Your calendar can now fill itself from the calendars you already keep. Next in this series: Put more than one organizer or venue on an event.