Folders for WP Event Manager events
Organizers submit events, you approve them, they run, and WP Event Manager marks them Expired. A year later the list holds hundreds of expired events next to the new ones.
Plathix PRO adds private folders to the events, organizers and venues lists. Group events by year, client or series, and open just the folder you need. Event pages, their status and their addresses stay as they are.
Every expired event in one pile
When an event ends, WP Event Manager marks it Expired. The Expired tab then holds every event that ever ended, all years and all organizers together, and the All view mixes them with the new ones.
The settings can delete expired events 30 days later or right after they finish. Then the history is gone.
Expired, but not finished with
On WP Event Manager sites, events come in from many organizers and then expire. People want to keep the expired ones, use them again, and see whose they are.
Many people add events to the site. In the All Events list, it would help to see who created each one.
Expired events still matter for search. We want them kept in the sitemap, not dropped.
A past event is the best template for the next one. With a lot of events, starting each one from scratch is not handy.
Folders give expired events a place by year, organizer or series. Their status, pages and addresses stay as they are.
Folders that match how events reach your site
Expired events by year
Move expired events into “Expired 2025”. They keep their status and their pages. The list you work in shows what is coming.
By organizer or client
If several groups post events on your site, give each one a folder and see their events in one click.
Online or on site
A folder for online events and one for each place, just for your team.
By season or series
Spring 2026, summer markets, monthly meetups: one folder per series makes the next round easy to plan.
Organizers and venues too
Organizers and venues are lists of their own in WP Event Manager. Each gets its own folder tree, for example venues by city.
Folders on three WP Event Manager lists
Events
The panel sits beside the events list. Click a folder and the list shows only its events.
Organizers
Organizers get their own folder tree, separate from events.
Venues
Venues get their own folder tree too.
A Folder column and a link
Every row shows its folder. The address changes when you open a folder, so you can bookmark it or send it to a teammate.
WP Event Manager 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, status and URL |
| Let an event end | WP Event Manager marks it Expired, as before | Its folder: it stays where you put it |
| Move last year’s events to “Expired 2025” | The folder tree in wp-admin | Event pages and the event listings on your 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 event listings and are not categories or event types.
How we test WP Event Manager
We run each check on a live site with Plathix PRO and the current WP Event Manager version, on the real events, organizers and venues lists.
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 |
| Organizers and venues | Each list gets its own folder tree. | Planned |
| Expired events | An event that turns Expired stays in its folder. | Planned |
| WP Event Manager filters | Folder filter together with the category and event type filters. | Planned |
| Duplicate | Check which folder a duplicated event lands in. | Planned |
| Delete settings | With a delete setting on, events in folders still go to the trash. | Planned |
WP Event Manager folders FAQ
Do folders change my events?
What happens when an event expires?
Do organizers and venues get folders?
Will folders stop the automatic delete of expired events?
Can visitors see the folders?
Is this in Plathix Free?
Related pages
Let events expire. Keep them where you can find them.
Events, organizers and venues in folders you choose. Nothing changes on your site.