Folders for Event Organiser events
Every year adds a few hundred events to the list: classes, talks, open days. Past events stay published for people who look them up, and in the admin they sit between you and next month.
Plathix PRO adds private folders to the Event Organiser events list. File events by year, season, program or client, and open just the folder you need. The calendar, the event pages and their addresses stay as they are.
Hundreds of events and one long list
The Event Organiser list shows all events by default, past and upcoming. You can filter by category, by venue, or by future and expired events. You cannot filter by what your team talks about: this season, the summer school, Client A.
A category for that would show on your site, because Event Organiser gives each category its own page. Deleting old events loses the history people still look up.
Keep the past, but not in the way
People who run Event Organiser sites want two things at once. Every past event should stay, and the list should still be easy to work in.
The events list starts with the oldest events. To edit a recent one, you sort again or click through all the pages to the end.
Old events should move somewhere, so the events list in the admin is more organised.
Deleting past events seems so final. It also means you cannot copy them anymore.
Past events drop off and end up in the trash. We need them to stay.
Folders let you do both: file past events by year, and open the folder you are working on.
Folders that match how you run events
Past events by year
Move last year’s events into “Past 2025”. They stay published and keep their pages. The list you work in shows what is coming.
By season or term
One folder per season, so planning the next one starts from the right list.
By program
Summer school, a lecture series, family days. A program that comes back every year keeps all its events in one folder.
By client or partner
If you run events for others, give each client a folder. No category, no public page, no code.
Repeating events
Event Organiser shows a repeating event as one row in the list, with all its dates inside. Put the series in a folder once.
A folder tree next to your events
A folder panel on All Events
The panel sits beside the Event Organiser events list. Click a folder and the list shows only its events.
A Folder column
Every row shows its folder; click it to open that folder.
Search inside a folder
Search and the status tabs work inside the open folder.
A link for each folder
The address changes when you open a folder, so you can bookmark it or send it to a teammate.
Event Organiser never sees your folders
| What you do | What changes | What stays as it is |
|---|---|---|
| Put an event in a folder | Its Plathix folder | Dates, venue, categories, URL and status |
| Move last year’s events to “Past 2025” | The folder tree in wp-admin | The calendar on your site and every event page |
| Open the Calendar View page | Nothing | It shows your events as before |
| Trash an event, then restore it | Its Trash state | Its folder: it comes back to the same place |
| Turn Plathix PRO off | The list looks like plain WordPress | Your folders wait in the database and come back |
Folders have no URLs, never appear in the calendar and are not categories.
How we test Event Organiser
We run each check on a live site with Plathix PRO and the current Event Organiser version, on the real events list.
Status Planned
Results go to Plathix Lab. Each row turns into a link once it has run.
| Check | What we verify | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Enable events | Turn on Events in Enabled Sections; the panel and the Folder column appear on the list. | Planned |
| Event Organiser filters | Folder filter together with the category, venue and future / expired filters. | Planned |
| Repeating events | A repeating event shows as one row inside its folder. | Planned |
| Calendar unchanged | Event pages, URLs, categories and the calendar look the same after filing. | Planned |
| Trash and restore | A trashed event comes back to its folder. | Planned |
| Delete expired events | With the setting on, events in folders still go to the trash. | Planned |
Event Organiser folders FAQ
Do folders change my events or the calendar?
Can I archive past events without deleting them?
Is a folder the same as an event category?
Do venues get folders?
Will folders stop “Delete expired events”?
Is this in Plathix Free?
Related pages
Keep the calendar for visitors. Keep the archive for your team.
Event Organiser events in folders you choose. Nothing changes on your site.