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title: "Let Users Submit and Manage Events with Community Events"
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description: "Allowing users to submit and manage their own events directly on your site is a powerful way to build community engagement and reduce the admin work of curating…"
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area: "The Events Calendar"
date: "2024-08-02"
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# Let Users Submit and Manage Events with Community Events

Allowing users to submit and manage their own events directly on your site is a powerful way to build community engagement and reduce the admin work of curating a calendar. With The Events Calendar and the [Community Events](https://theeventscalendar.com/products/community/) add-on, you can enable frontend event submissions, review what comes in, and give users a dedicated page for managing their own events.

This article walks through the full lifecycle: configuring submissions, handling them as they arrive, and setting up a My Events page for your users. For a complete reference of every setting on the Community tab, see [Configuring Community Events](https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/configuring-community-events/).

## Setting Up Community Event Submissions

First, make sure the [Community Events](https://theeventscalendar.com/products/community/) add-on is installed and activated alongside The Events Calendar. Then head to **Events → Settings → Community** in your WordPress dashboard to configure the submission form.

![The Community tab in Events Settings](https://docs.nexcess.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/CE-option-2.jpg)### Decide Who Can Submit

The first decision is whether to allow **anonymous submissions**. Enable this to let any visitor submit events without logging in. Disable it to require user accounts — anonymous visitors will be prompted to log in before they can access the submission form.

![The Allow Anonymous Submissions setting](https://docs.nexcess.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/CE-option.jpg)If you’re requiring registered users, make sure visitors can actually create accounts: go to **Settings → General** in your WordPress dashboard and check **Anyone can register**.

**💡 Note:** The default role for new registrations is Subscriber. If you want users to have additional dashboard access — to manage tickets, for example — see [Roles and Permissions with The Events Calendar](https://docs.nexcess.com/software/the-events-calendar/user-roles-events/).

### Choose a Review Workflow

Next, set the default status for submitted events. This controls how much review happens before a submission goes live:

- **Draft** — submitted events won’t be displayed until an admin publishes them.
- **Pending Review** — same as Draft for visibility, but makes submissions easier for admins to find and review.
- **Published** — events are publicly accessible immediately after submission, with no review step.

![The Default Submission Status setting](https://docs.nexcess.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/CE-option-5.jpg)### Configure Submitter Permissions

Scroll down to configure what submitters can do beyond just creating events:

- **Allow users to create new venues and organizers** — enable these to let logged-in users add venues or organizers on the fly. Leave disabled to restrict submitters to your existing options.
- **Allow users to edit their submissions** — lets logged-in users modify their events from the frontend. This is a prerequisite for the My Events page covered below.
- **Allow users to remove their submissions** — lets users delete their events from the frontend. Admins aren’t notified when this happens.
- **Deleted events handling** — choose whether removed events go to Trash (restorable) or are permanently deleted.

![The Edit and Remove Submissions settings](https://docs.nexcess.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/CE-option-7.jpg)### Turn On Email Notifications

If you’re using Draft or Pending Review as the default status, you’ll want to know when a new submission needs review. Scroll to the Alerts section, enable the checkbox, and enter one or more email addresses — each listed address will receive a notification whenever a new event is submitted.

![The Alert Settings with notification email addresses](https://docs.nexcess.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/CE-option-9.jpg)## Reviewing Submitted Events

Once your settings are configured, submitted events appear in your event list just like any other event. As an administrator, you can review submissions by clicking **Events** in the WordPress dashboard sidebar.

If your default status is **Draft**, new submissions appear as drafts in the event list:

![Draft events in the event list](https://docs.nexcess.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/kb-community-draft-event-665x180-1.jpg)Submitted events appearing as drafts in the event list.If your default status is **Pending Review**, submissions appear as pending:

![Events pending review in the event list](https://docs.nexcess.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/kb-community-pending-event-665x179-1.jpg)Submitted events appearing as pending review.To review a submission, click the event, make any necessary edits, and click **Publish**. The editor works the same whether you’re using the Classic Editor or the Block Editor:

![Reviewing and publishing an event in the Classic Editor](https://docs.nexcess.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/kb-community-publish-event-665x222-1.jpg)Reviewing and publishing a submission in the Classic Editor.![Reviewing and publishing an event in the Block Editor](https://docs.nexcess.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Screen-Shot-2022-12-12-at-6.33.33-AM.jpg)Reviewing and publishing a submission in the Block Editor.To reduce spam submissions from anonymous users, you can enable reCAPTCHA on the Community submission form. See [the reCAPTCHA setup guide in Configuring Community Events](https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/configuring-community-events/#using-recaptcha-to-prevent-spam-event-submissions).

## Creating a My Events Page

Once submissions are configured and you’ve enabled **Allow users to edit their submissions**, you can give logged-in users a dedicated page where they can view, edit, and delete everything they’ve submitted — without needing access to the WordPress dashboard.

By default, logged-in users can access their submitted events at `https://yoursite.com/events/community/list/`. A dedicated “My Events” page gives you more control over branding and navigation, and makes this URL discoverable.

1. **Create a new page.** In your WordPress dashboard, go to **Pages → Add New** and title it “My Events” (or whatever you prefer).
2. **Insert the shortcode.** Add the following [Community Events shortcode](https://docs.nexcess.com/software/the-events-calendar/community-shortcodes/#edit-event-user) to the page content:

```
[tribe_community_events view="my_events"]
```

3. **Publish the page.** That’s it — the shortcode displays a list of events submitted by the currently logged-in user, each with options to edit or delete.

## Linking Users to the My Events Page

A page users can’t find won’t get used. A few places to surface it:

- **Navigation menu.** Go to **Appearance → Menus** and add the My Events page to your site’s main navigation.
- **User dashboard or profile area.** If your site has an account dashboard, add a link to the My Events page there so users see it when managing their profile.
- **Post-submission redirect.** Consider redirecting users to the My Events page after they submit an event, so they can immediately see their submission alongside any others. See [Customizing the Community Events Submission Workflow](https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/customizing-community-submission-workflow/) for the redirect snippet.

## Access Control

**Restrict access to logged-in users.** Under **Events → Settings → Community → Access Control**, you can block access to the dashboard for certain roles and redirect them elsewhere. This helps keep non-admin users on the frontend.

## Related Articles

- [Selling Tickets for Submitted Community Events](https://docs.nexcess.com/software/the-events-calendar/community-tickets/)
- [How to Use Community Events Shortcodes](https://docs.nexcess.com/software/the-events-calendar/community-shortcodes/)
- [Troubleshooting Community Events](https://docs.nexcess.com/software/the-events-calendar/troubleshoot-community/)
- [Sales Tax and Marketplace Facilitator Laws for Community Events](https://docs.nexcess.com/software/the-events-calendar/tax-laws/)