Folders for EventON events
EventON can filter its Events list by past and current events, status and month. It has no place for the groups your team thinks in: a season, a client, a program, the events you run every year.
Plathix PRO adds private folders to the EventON Events list. File past events by year, group events by season or client, and keep them published. The calendar, event pages and event types stay as they are.
Past, current, and everything at once
EventON lets you switch the Events list between past events, current events, one status or one month. That helps you find a date.
It does not help you find a program. Last summer’s festival, one client’s events, the classes you run every winter: they all sit in the same list.
Event types could group them, but event types are public, with their own pages on the site. A private group for your team needs a place of its own.
Thousands of events, page after page
A busy EventON calendar keeps every event that ever ran. When the list gets long, the first question is how to get rid of the old ones.
Almost 6,500 events in the list. Going through them page by page would take forever.
If past events do not go away on their own, someone has to remove them by hand.
Deleting old events seems so final. And once they are gone, you cannot copy them for next year.
Folders give another answer: keep past events published, file them by year, and open them only when you need them.
Folders that match how your calendar fills up
Past events by year
Move finished events to “Past 2025”. They stay published and their pages keep working.
By season
Winter season, Summer season, Festival week: plan one season without the others in view.
By client or partner
For agencies and venues that host events for others: Client A, Client B, Partners.
Annual events
Keep the events you run every year in one folder, ready to copy when the new dates are set.
Work in progress
Drafts to check, events waiting for photos or a location. A to-do list next to the events.
Folders on the list you already use
A folder tree next to Events
The panel sits beside the EventON Events list. Click a folder and the list shows only its events.
Your EventON filters stay
The past and current, status and month filters stay above the list, next to the folder panel.
A Folder column
Each event shows its folder in a Folder column, to the right of EventON’s own columns.
A link for each folder
The address changes when you open a folder, so you can bookmark it or send it to a teammate.
The calendar never sees your folders
| What you do | What changes | What stays as it is |
|---|---|---|
| Put an event in a folder | Its Plathix folder | Dates, location, organizer, event type, URL, status |
| Move last year’s events to “Past 2025” | The folder tree in wp-admin | The calendar and every event page |
| Rename or move a folder | The folder tree | Every page on the site |
| 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 event types.
How we test EventON
We run each check on a live site with Plathix PRO and the current versions of EventON and EventON Lite, on the real Events screen.
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 EventON events in Enabled Sections; the panel and Folder column appear on the list. | Planned |
| EventON filters | A folder together with the past and current, status and month filters. | Planned |
| Calendar unchanged | File an event: its page, URL, event types and calendar view stay the same. | Planned |
| Duplicate | Which folder a copy made with Duplicate starts in. | Planned |
| EventON Lite | The same checks on EventON Lite. | Planned |
| Trash and restore | A trashed event comes back to its folder. | Planned |
EventON folders FAQ
Do folders change my calendar or event URLs?
How is a folder different from an event type?
Can I archive past events without deleting them?
Do locations and organizers get folders?
Do folders appear with EventON Lite too?
Is this in Plathix Free?
Related pages
Keep the calendar for visitors. Keep your own groups in wp-admin.
EventON events in folders you choose: by season, client or year. Nothing changes in the calendar.