Let’s say you want to change the permissions on your site so that Editors can edit and publish posts to your blog, but not to the events that are published using The Events Calendar plugin.
In general, events follow the same user roles and permissions as any other default post in WordPress. If you remove editing and publishing permissions for Editors in posts, the same will be true in events.
What to do?
Setting permissions for events
We’ve greatly expanded the types of capabilities that are available for events that allow you to customize permissions for events without interfering with the permissions of other post types. Here’s the catch, though: you will need a third-party plugin to activate and assign them to specific user roles. We recommend the User Role Editor plugin if you’re looking for one.
Once you’ve installed and activated the User Role Editor plugin, head over to Users → Roles → Editor from the WordPress dashboard. You should see the following permission: edit_tribe_events.
Uncheck this option, and your Editor role will no longer have the ability to edit the events.
Wash, rinse, and repeat for other user roles, including custom roles you may have created.
Full list of capabilities
If you’re wondering just how many capabilities are available for user roles managing content in The Events Calendar, here is a comprehensive list of everything at your fingertips.
Events capabilities
delete_tribe_eventsedit_tribe_eventsedit_others_tribe_eventsdelete_others_tribe_eventspublish_tribe_eventsedit_published_tribe_eventsdelete_published_tribe_eventsdelete_private_tribe_eventsedit_private_tribe_eventsread_private_tribe_events
Venues capabilities
delete_tribe_venuesedit_tribe_venuesedit_others_tribe_venuesdelete_others_tribe_venuespublish_tribe_venuesedit_published_tribe_venuesdelete_published_tribe_venuesdelete_private_tribe_venuesedit_private_tribe_venuesread_private_tribe_venues
Organizers capabilities
delete_tribe_organizersedit_tribe_organizersedit_others_tribe_organizersdelete_others_tribe_organizerspublish_tribe_organizersedit_published_tribe_organizersdelete_published_tribe_organizersdelete_private_tribe_organizersedit_private_tribe_organizersread_private_tribe_organizers
Ticket capabilities
The following are permissions used in our ticketing plugins and add-ons.
| Permission | What it Does | Plugin |
|---|---|---|
edit_event_tickets | Provides access to the Classic Editor metabox for tickets. | Event Tickets Community Tickets |
tribe_manage_attendees | Provides access to see attendee data for events, including attendees who have opted out of public display and attendees who are in the process of completing a ticket purchase. | Event Tickets |
sell_event_tickets | Provides access to sell a ticket when submitting an event to the calendar via the Community Events submission form. This can be overridden to provide access to all users in the Community Tickets add-on settings. | Community Tickets |
Important: You need to manually add these Ticket permissions.
Zoom capabilities
Zoom link creation can be added using the manage_options capability. You can filter this capability using: tribe_events_virtual_zoom_admin_ajax_capability to another capability.
By default, only users with admin role are able to create and manage Zoom meetings. It is possible to change this behavior and allow users with editor role to be able to create and manage it as well. You can achieve just that, using the code snippet below, which can be entered to the functions.php file or using a code snippet plugin approach.
add_filter( 'tribe_events_virtual_zoom_admin_ajax_capability', function ( $capability ) {
return 'edit_private_tribe_events';
}, 20 );Additionally, the same functionality, is provided when using our dedicated Virtual Events: Editor Role Zoom Support extension.