Folders for Modern Events Calendar
Modern Events Calendar gives its Events list good filters: start date, category, location, organizer, label. It has no place for your own groups: last year’s program, one client’s events, the ones you run again.
Plathix PRO adds private folders to the Events list in M.E. Calendar. File expired events by year, group events by season or client, and keep them published. The calendar views, event pages and their addresses stay as they are.
Good filters, no place for your own groups
Modern Events Calendar filters the Events list by start date, category, location, organizer and label, and it has Expired Events and Upcoming Events buttons. They answer “when” and “where”.
They do not answer “which program”, “which client” or “which events do we run again”. Teams use categories for that, and MEC categories have their own pages on the site.
Or they leave expired events in the list for years, because deleting them loses the history.
Expired events add up
Most events on a busy calendar are already over. The question that keeps coming up is how to clear them out, because doing it by hand takes too long.
We have a lot of small events that are over. Removing them by hand would take far too much time.
Expired events should go away on their own, without clearing the list one event at a time.
Old events should move somewhere else, so the events list in the admin stays organised.
More than a thousand events, many with almost the same name. Finding the right one to update is tedious.
A folder per year gives expired events a place to go. They stay published, and the folder you plan in shows only that season.
Folders that match how you plan events
Expired events by year
Move expired events to “Expired 2025”. They stay published; open “Spring 2027” and you see only what you are planning.
By season or program
Spring 2027, Summer school, Annual festival: one folder for each program you plan.
By client
For agencies and venues that run events for others: one folder per client.
Events to run again
Keep the events you repeat every year in “To run again”, ready to copy for the next season.
Work in progress
Drafts to check, events waiting for photos or prices. A to-do list next to the events.
Folders where you manage events
A folder tree next to Events
Open the Events list in M.E. Calendar as usual. Click a folder and the list shows only its events.
Search inside a folder
Search and the status tabs work inside the open folder.
A Folder column
Each event shows its folder next to its title. Click it to open that folder.
Shortcodes too
The Shortcodes list, where MEC keeps the calendar views you build, can get its own folder tree.
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, repeats, location, organizer, categories, URL |
| Move expired events to “Expired 2025” | The folder tree in wp-admin | Every calendar view and 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 MEC categories or labels.
How we test Modern Events Calendar
We run each check on a live site with Plathix PRO and the current version of Modern Events Calendar, on the real Events and Shortcodes screens.
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 MEC events in Enabled Sections; the panel and Folder column appear on the list. | Planned |
| MEC filters | A folder together with the start date, category, location and organizer filters. | Planned |
| Calendar unchanged | File an event: its page, URL, repeats and calendar views stay the same. | Planned |
| Duplicate | Which folder a copy made with Duplicate starts in. | Planned |
| Shortcodes | Folders on the Shortcodes list; calendar views on your pages unchanged. | Planned |
| Trash and restore | A trashed event comes back to its folder. | Planned |
Modern Events Calendar folders FAQ
Do folders change my calendar or event URLs?
How is a folder different from an MEC category?
Can I archive expired events without deleting them?
Do locations and organizers get folders?
Do folders appear with MEC Lite too?
Is this in Plathix Free?
Related pages
Keep every season in its folder. Keep the calendar as it is.
Events in folders you choose: by season, program or client. Nothing changes in your calendar views.