Some of the features include:

• Receiving notification emails when new subscribers subscribe to your calendar
• Sending verification emails to verify subscription
• Activate subscription for subscribers with one click button on the backend
• A standalone button that can be dropped anywhere to prompt subscription form
• An option to trash subscribers or just change status when unsubscribed
• Restrict subscription only to registered and logged-in users
• Languages are also customizable via the EventON language settings

With that said, the effectiveness of the add-on also stretches to its custom capability. You can easily edit the appearance of the subscription buttons directly from EventON settings to match your website styles. Click, click, bang!

User Guide

From this guide, you’ll get to learn how to install and use the subscriber addon for your event calendar.

Installation

Before getting started, install and update the EventON plugin by downloading it from your CodeCanyon account. 

You’d then need to install and activate the Subscriber addon by following this guide on how to install EventON add-ons.

Adding a subscription form to the front-end

It is pretty flawless to add the subscription form to the front-end of your website. 

We are now going to cover how your viewers can subscribe to your calendar events from two different approaches whether they subscribe to particular event types, event locations, or event organizers.

#1: Subscribe from the calendar bottom

Use the shortcode [add_EventON subscriber=”yes”] to allow customers to subscribe from the bottom of the calendar. You can also append the parameter subscriber=”yes” to your current calendar shortcode.

#2: The Subscriber standalone button

Use the shortcode [evo_subscribe_btn] to show the subscriber standalone button, which can further be configured via shortcode generator >> Subscriber.

Subscription form

By clicking on any of the above subscription button options, you will open up Lightbox based subscription form, which can be configured from EventON Settings > Subscriber > Subscriber Form

Subscriber List

Subscribers joining via the subscription form will be added to your website as a custom post type evo-subscriber that can be found in Events > All Subscribers in wp-admin.

Subscriber Edit Post

You can edit the subscriber information further under each subscriber post.

New Event Email to Subscribers

Send an email to subscribers when a new event is published. To do this, you will see an Event Subscription feature in the Event Edit post page. 

Enabling the button will auto-send the email to the subscriber list; only subscribers that have subscribed only to the event types and other categories that match that of the new event.

This can also be enabled to run auto via Subscriber Settings.

Cancel Event Email to Subscribers

To cancel event emails, enable this feature from the Subscriber settings.

Go to Subscriber Settings > Email Settings > Auto notify subscribers of event cancellation

Once this is set, when an event status is changed to cancel with the cancellation reason updated, every subscriber of that event will receive an email.

Preview All Emails

All the emails can be previewed from the settings; That’s Subscriber settings > Email Settings > Preview email templates situated at the bottom of the settings page.

HTML Email Template Override & Customization

All the email templates are in the ../templates folder inside add-on files. 

You can copy these template files into ../–your-theme–folder–/EventON/subscriber/ for further customization through overrides.

NOTE: Make sure you confirm that the email templates are compatible with new version when the subscriber add-on is updated

MailChimp Integration

To achieve this, navigate to Subscriber Settings > Third Party and enable Mailchimp for subscribers.

Finding or generating your API key

To set up an integration with your Mailchimp account, you need to generate an API key.

Something worth noting is that users with Manager permissions can generate and view their own API keys, and users with Admin permissions can see API keys for other account users.

To do this:

1. Navigate to the API Keys section of your Mailchimp account
2. Copy an existing API key, or click the Create A Key button
   Remember to name your key descriptively; what application uses that key?

You’d then follow instructions on the page including pasting the API key to allow subscribers to be added to a MailChimp-based email lists.

Subscribers into CSV

The Subscriber add-on for EventON gives you the privilege of downloading all the subscriber data as CSV file to use with other Third-party email programs. This is done from the Subscriber settings > General > Download (CSV)

The post How to Set Up and Use the Subscriber Addon first appeared on Documentation.

Subscription form can be added to front-end of your website quite easily. Below are 1 methods. Viewers of your calendar can subscribe to your calendar from these methods. They can subscriber to certain event types, event locations, event organizers.

1 Subscribe from calendar bottom

You can use shortcode like [add_eventon subscriber=”yes”] to allow customers to subscribe from bottom of the calendar which will appear like this.

2 Subscriber standalone button

Use the shortcode [evo_subscribe_btn] to show the subscriber standalone button. This can be further configured via shortcode generator > Subscriber.

Subscription form

Clicking on any of the above mentioned subscription button options will open up lightbox based subscription form. Which can be configured from EventON Settings > Subscriber > Subscriber Form

Subscriber List

Subscribers joining via the form will be added to your website as a custom post type evo-subscriber which can be found in Events > All Subscribers in wp-admin.

Subscriber Edit Post

Under each edit subscriber post, you can further edit subscriber information.

New Event Email to Subscribers

You can send an email to subscribers when a new event is published. To do this, you will see a box like the one below on the Event Edit post page. Enabling the button will send that email auto to the subscriber list, to those subscribers that have subscribed only to the event types and other categories that matched that of the new event.

This can also be enabled to run auto via Subscriber Settings.

Cancel Event Email to Subscribers

Enable this from Subscriber Settings > Email Settings > Auto notify subscribers of event cancellation

Once this is set, when an event status is changed to cancel with cancellation reason is updated, email will be sent to the subscribers of that event.

Preview All Emails

All the email can be previewed as to how they look in general via, Subscriber settings > Email Settings At the bottom of the settings page under  Preview email templates.

HTML Email Template Override & Customization

All the email templates are in the ../templates folder inside addon files. You can copy these template files into ../–your-theme–folder–/eventon/subscriber/ and can be further edited.

NOTE: when changes are made to subscriber addon, be sure to check email templates are compatible with new version.

MailChimp Integration

Go to Subscriber Settings > Third Party and enable Mailchimp for subscriber. Then you can follow instructions on the page to paste API key to allow subscribers to be added into a mailchimp based email lists.

Subscribers into CSV

All the subscribers on your website can be downloaded as a CSV file from Subscriber settings > General > Download (CSV)

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v 1.4.4 (2025
FIXED: Php 8.4 compatibility

v 1.4.3 (2024-3-14)
ADDED: View subscriber list from event edit page
ADDED: Subscription email previews to load as lightbox
ADDED: random publish event to use as details for preview emails
FIXED: PHP 8.4 compatibility
FIXED: various styles
FIXED: saving event cause error with call to undefined function
FIXED: Subscription form showing for a split second on page load
FIXED: add to calendar URL not working

v 1.4.2 (2024-4-12)
FIXED: subscriber email not going when event submitted via actionUser
FIXED: event data not initiated for new event email

v 1.4.1 (2024-4-4)
ADDED: event time to include GMT value
FIXED: email sending function to use new variables
FIXED: event time not correct in new event email
UPDATED: new event email

v 1.4 (2024-2-28)
ADDED: Integration with actionUser addon to notify subscribers of new event submission via frontend form
ADDED: pluggable hook evosb_new_subscriber_added when new subscriber added
FIXED: invalid image error
FIXED: spelling error on settings
FIXED: custom template not working
FIXED: eventON 4.5.7 timezone compatibility
UPDATED: layout designs and UI

v 1.3.8 (2022-1-12)
FIXED: mailchimp api key error stopping settings page from loading

v 1.3.7 (2021-10-4)
FIXED: custom more information link guide
FIXED: Missing translation text strings
FIXED: cancel reason not sending through in the email
FIXED: auto notify subscribers value overridding event edit settings
FIXED: subscriber button scrolling the page to top

v 1.3.6 (2020-12-11)
FIXED: language translations not working

v 1.3.5 (2020-10-27)
FIXED: event type categories not showing in the form
FIXED: minor styles update

v 1.3.4 (2020-9-21)
ADDED: settings option to show all category terms in subscription form
FIXED: loading scripts and styles over ssl
FIXED: subscriber page not saved to options
FIXED: event cancelled using event status not sending cancel email
FIXED: undefined content error on cancel reason
FIXED: subscriber meta box not showing in event edit page

v 1.3.3 (2020-2-28)
FIXED: subscriber manager mail function error
FIXED: mailchimp undefined property error

v 1.3.2 (2020-1-28)
FIXED: all subcribers getting new event emails when not in correct category

v 1.3.1 (2019-12-26)
FIXED: cancel event email get sent regardless of event cancellation

v 1.3 (2019-10-10)
ADDED: subscriber count for each event in event edit page
ADDED: event cancellation notice email
ADDED: subscriber name also import to mailchimp
FIXED: new event email settings to override individual event values
FIXED: cancel event emails to also use bcc format
FIXED: missing text translations from subscriber page
FIXED: subscriber manager event type category selection error
FIXED: unsubscribed emails not showing the subscribtion manager

v 1.2.6 (2019-3-6)
FIXED: unsubscribe a user from mailchimp yeilding error message
FIXED: Incorrect email notice on subscribe manager
FIXED: Multiple translation missing text spots

v 1.2.5 (2018-8-7)
FIXED: undefined mailchimp error
FIXED: undefined subscription ID in subscription mange page
FIXED: future schedules events still sending email to subscribers
FIXED: duplicating events to not duplicate sent subscription email status
FIXED: update subscription not working on subscription manager page
UPDATED: subscription manager page layout and UI changes

v 1.2.4 (2018-2-27)
FIXED: mailchimp email lists not showing up for selection
UPDATED: Mailchimp library
UPDATED: Class based addon initiation

v 1.2.3 (2018-1-29)
ADDED: new event email text strings into eventon translation
FIXED: subscriber using form not working
FIXED: subscriber posts showing in auto link generator
FIXED: add to calendar time not correct
FIXED: add to calendar location information not passing through
FIXED: Incorrect email notice

v 1.2.2 (2017-5-25)
FIXED: subscriber posts showing in search results

v 1.2.1 (2017-3-6)
FIXED: new event email time be formatted based on eventon settings
FIXED: special character treatment on email subject and body (thanks thirdriver)
FIXED: New event datetime missing correct post meta values
FIXED: Appearance not taking effect for standalone subscriber button
UPDATED: eventon 2.5 compatibility with styles and addon initiation
UPDATED: Repeating events notice for subscriber

v 1.2 (2016-8-15)
FIXED: New event email template text escaping
FIXED: Standalone subscriber button not working by itself

v 1.1 (20167-11)
FIXED: Standalone button lang variable not recognized

v 1.0 (2016-3-30)
ADDED: Mailchimp intergration for adding subscribers to email lists
ADDED: Be able to activate subscribers direct from all subscribers page
ADDED: Shortcode for standalone subscription button that can go anywhere
ADDED: verify subscription email text into language
FIXED: When subscription manager page deleted subscription verification link error
UPDATED: Emails to look similar to standard eventon email layout

v 0.6 (2016-1-13)
ADDED: Ability to actually trash subscriber or change subscription status
ADDED: Option to save subscribers as drafts
ADDED: Ability to restrict subscription only to loggedin users
ADDED: Subscription confirmation email text to language translations
ADDED: Ability to set custom link for new event email more information link
ADDED: Unsubscribe email confirmation to subscriber
FIXED: Unable to unsubcribe from the system
FIXED: New subscriber errors in creating subscriber post with no content
FIXED: Event type category not passing through to subscribers
FIXED: all day event showing time in new event email

v 0.5 (2015-10-23)
FIXED: Email exist is not getting checked correctly
FIXED: Subscriber button color not changing in appearance
UPDATED: Template files to load off child themes as well
UPDATED: Styles for the subcription form
UPDATED: Responsive styles for form

v 0.4 (2015-7-20)
FIXED: required fields missing error for some
UPDATED: Settings icons for eventon settings

v 0.3 (2015-6-30)
FIXED: New event email to go in as BCC without showing all emails
FIXED: Subscriber button not clickable
UPDATED: EventON 2.3.5 required for this version

v 0.2 (2015-4-21)
FIXED: All events wp-admin page error on columns

v0.1 (2015-3-25)
Initial release

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