| XF 2.3 Add-ons (✨GOLD +) [XenCustomize] Events Manager 2.3.8.1

XenCustomize Events Manager for XenForo 2!

Host, manage, and showcase your community's events — beautifully and effortlessly.
Whether you're running a gaming clan, hobby group, or local organization, Events Manager transforms your XenForo forum into a complete event management hub.

Plan your events, engage your community with RSVP options, repeating schedules, photo galleries, ratings & reviews — and display them in stunning Calendar, List, or Card Grid views.

Key Features & Highlights

Beautiful Event Displays

• Multiple display modes: Calendar, List, and Card Grid
• Elegant layouts with ribbons, labels, and status indicators ( Featured, Ongoing, Ended)
• Choose default display modes for index and categories for full control
• Hide/show side-navigation blocks (Categories, Filters, Upcoming Events)
• Smart use of default event image where no image is uploaded

Smart RSVP & Attendee Management

• One-click RSVP or detailed status selection (Attending / Maybe / Not Attending)
• Attendee counters and visual RSVP tabs
• Organizer tools to instantly notify attendees and "Maybe" users
• RSVP permissions and limits for full control

Repeating & Full-Day Events

• Set events to repeat daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly
• Choose repeating duration (forever, until date, or X times)
• Mark events as Full Day — no manual time selection required

Powerful Ratings & Reviews System

• 5-star ratings + text reviews with optional titles
• Attachments, reactions, content voting, edit history, and moderation
• Custom fields per category
• "Recommended by attendees" percentage display to boost trust
• Prevent early ratings, or restrict reviews to RSVP'd users
• Inline moderation and approval tools for admins and moderators
• Dedicated Latest Reviews page + rating averages on event lists

Advanced Calendar Experience

• Choose default calendar view (Month, Week, Day, Agenda, List)
• Option to hide weekends, change week start day, and customize colors
• Smooth navigation with instant filtering
• Export individual events or entire categories to .ics for Google Calendar and iCal

Integrated Location & Maps

• Smart location autocomplete for addresses and place names (venues, clubs, etc.)
• Localized maps for each event with multi-language support

Attendee Notifications

• Send custom alerts and emails to attendees and "Maybe" participants
• Preview participant stats before sending
• Seamless integration with XenForo Alerts + Email system

Photos, Banners & Media Support

• Upload event banners and images with .webp support
• Optimized via XenForo 2.3's Image Optimization system
• Rebuild and optimize existing images and banners through ACP rebuild tools

Search, Filters & Widgets

• Filter events by RSVP status, title, location, or public, private and upcoming events
• Widgets included: Ongoing Events, Upcoming Events, and Featured Events Carousel
• "Latest Reviews" page for quick access to fresh feedback

Deep XenForo Integration

• Uses XenForo's core systems: Alerts, Reports, Approvals, Reactions, Attachments, and Permissions
• Custom field support for both events and reviews
• SEO meta tags + Open Graph image support for rich social sharing

Enhanced Admin Control & Options

• Global rating toggle (Enable/Disable ratings site-wide)
• Clean tabbed admin interface for easy configuration
• Granular user-group permissions for RSVP, Repeating, Reviewing, and Rating

Polished User Interface

• Modern visual consistency with category branding and default images
• Clear event status labels and folded-corner ribbons
• Smooth side navigation and responsive layouts

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Complete Features List

Event Creation & Management

• Create, edit, and delete events directly from the front end.
• Support for event categories with independent permissions and settings.
• Event status indicators: Active, Ongoing, Ended, Private, Repeating, Featured.
• Full-day event option — eliminates the need for start/end times.
• Repeating events system with flexible recurrence: Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly.
  • End conditions: Repeat Forever, Until Date, or Total Occurrences.
• Automatic next occurrence rebuild via cron for repeating events.
• Auto-rebuilding of next event dates via cron for repeating events.
• Prefilled start/end date & time when creating events for a smoother workflow.
• Time zone selection for each event during creation/editing.
• Default event image automatically used when no custom image is uploaded (list, grid, and event view).
• Supports modern image formats including WebP, with built-in image optimization and rebuild tools (Optimize Event Images / Banners).
• Private events with category-level permission "View private event."
• Limit total events per user (permission-controlled) with friendly notice when reached.

Event Categories

• Fully hierarchical event category system.
• Category display mode global setting:
  • List
  • Card Grid
• Option to show or hide side navigation blocks (Categories, Filters, Upcoming Events).
• SEO-friendly and non-friendly URL support for category navigation links.
• Category-specific custom fields and review fields.
• Integrated permission system for category-level control.

Calendar & Display Modes

• Dedicated Calendar view with multiple selectable layouts:
  • Month, Week, Day
  • List Year, List Month, List Week, List Day
• Agenda views showing event blocks with duration and time.
• Set week start day (e.g., Sunday or Monday).
• Option to include or exclude weekends.
• Control default calendar view and timescale. (yearly, monthly, weekly, daily).
• Fully customizable via style properties (colors, borders, backgrounds).
• Enhanced List and Card Grid views with clean, responsive layouts.
• Visual indicators: Featured · Ongoing · Ended · Private

RSVP & Attendance

• Three RSVP states: Attending / Maybe / Not Attending.
• Filter events by your RSVP status.
• Ability to delete RSVP status (with permission).
• Choose RSVP registrationmethods:
  • Quick one-click RSVP
  • RSVP status window with manual selection
• Allow users to delete their RSVP status.
• Can add repeating event permission integrated with RSVP and category permissions.
• RSVP participants tabs always displayed in fixed order (Attending > Maybe > Not Attending).
• Show attendee counts in list and grid displays.
• Require RSVP for Rating — optional restriction allowing reviews only from RSVP'd users.
• Notify Event Attendees — send alerts & emails to Attending/Maybe users.
  • Dynamic organizer name and participant counts shown before sending.
  • Uses dedicated alert and email templates.

Event Rating & Review System

• Full 5-star rating system with optional text reviews.
• Optional review titles (optional / required / disabled).
• Custom review fields (per category) positioned above or below the review.
• Event recommendations — percentage of recommenders + user avatars.
• Voting on reviews (upvote / downvote / upvote-only / disabled).
• Reactions support (standard XF reactions).
• Attachments support (images/videos) with file type + size limits.
• Display ratings and review count (e.g., 4.75 – 6 Reviews) on list/grid views.
• "Latest Reviews" page (/events/latest-reviews) with full voting & sorting.
• Prevent ratings before event starts (optional).
• Require RSVP to rate (event-level toggle).
• Event-level "Ratings Open" control per event.
• User-level controls to edit/delete own reviews within a time limit.
• Advanced moderation tools: approval queue, inline mod, undelete, warnings, hard delete.
• Fully integrated with XenForo core systems:
  • Approval Queue
  • Alerts
  • Warnings
  • Inline Moderation
  • Search
  • Attachments
  • Content Voting
  • Edit History
  • Reactions
  • Reports
  • News Feed & Latest Activity
• Admin options includes:
  • Reviews per page
  • Require text review when rating
  • Review title control (optional, required, or hidden)
  • Min/max review length
  • Allow event ratings (global toggle)
  • Prevent ratings before event starts
  • Time limit for editing/deleting own reviews
  • Enable event recommendations
  • Allow review voting (upvote/downvote, upvote-only, or disabled)
  • Allowed attachment types and max file size
  • Recent reviews count for widgets
• User group permissions for:
  • Viewing, posting, editing, deleting, and approving reviews
  • Attaching images/videos to reviews
  • Voting and reacting to reviews
  • Submitting reviews without approval
  • Reviewing own events
  • Multiple reviews per event
• Event-level controls:
  • Enable/disable ratings per event
  • Require RSVP to rate

Event Locations & Maps

• Integrated Google Places Autocomplete for flexible event location input:
  • Supports address-based and establishment/place name searches.
  • Flexible entry (venues, stadiums, clubs, etc.).
• Updated location handling with improved accuracy and event edit form UX.
• Per-event time zone selection.

Event Export & Sharing

• Export individual events or entire categories to .ics format (iCal compatible).
• Smart file naming (based on event title/category).
• Includes all essential details: title, date/time, and description.
• Enhanced SEO meta tags and Open Graph images for rich social sharing.

Widgets & Blocks

• Upcoming Events widget (category filter supported).
• Ongoing Events (Carousel) widget — auto-created on install or upgrade:
  • Displays "Ongoing" ribbon and event end time.
• Featured Events Carousel — redesigned with event date/time and "Featured" ribbon.
• Latest Reviews page (count configurable).
• Optionally show/hide side navigation blocks (Categories, Filters, Upcoming Events).

Notifications & Communication

• Notify Event Attendees feature to send alerts/emails to attendees and "Maybe" users.
  • Includes participant count overview before sending.
  • Supports both alerts and emails using dedicated templates.
  • Organizer name shown dynamically for personalization.
• Integrated recommendation + review feedback mechanisms for engagement.

Permissions & User Management

• Rich permission system controlling all event, RSVP, review, and rating actions.
• Batch Update Users and Search Users support with "Event count between" filter.
• Integrates smoothly with XenForo's moderation and approval systems.
• Fine-grained control per user group:
  • Create / edit / delete events
  • Manage repeating events
  • Rate / review events
  • Approve / delete / moderate reviews
  • Upload review attachments
  • RSVP and send attendee notifications
• Category-level permissions for complete flexibility.

Admin Control Panel

• Clean, tabbed admin options interface for better navigation:
  • General
  • Events
  • Calendar
  • Locations
  • RSVP
  • Reviews
  • Extra
• Tools → Rebuild Caches:
  • Optimize Event Images
  • Optimize Event Banners
• Global toggle for enabling/disabling event ratings and reviews.
• Category-specific custom and review fields management.
• Cron and rebuild tasks for repeating events and optimizations.

Design & UX Enhancements

• Card Grid view for categories and widgets.
• Refined grid and list styling for cleaner presentation.
• Ongoing / Featured / Ended / Private ribbons with animations and overlays.
• Recolored and modernized default event image.
• Fully responsive and compatible with XenForo style.
• Consistent display of attendees, status, and ratings across all view modes.

Performance & Compatibility

• Compatible with XenForo 2.3.0+ (minimum requirement).
• Optimized for XF 2.3's new image handling and macro syntax (xf:macro id).
• Efficient query logic and clean template macros.
• Automatic widget setup on installation and seamless upgrades.
• Multilingual and style-property friendly.
• Smooth upgrades with zero conflicts.

Community Integration

• Linked discussion threads for each event (optional).
• Event shares enhanced with OG images + meta tags.
• Inline moderation for both events and reviews.
• Event recommendation stats foster trust & engagement.