Events is where you tell people where you'll be. A festival, a farmers' market, a brewery lot, a Friday night outside the ballpark: the date, the place, and the flyer if there is one.
It was built for food trucks. A restaurant that doesn't move uses the same page for wine dinners, supper clubs and pop-ups.
It stays hidden until you use it
Until you publish your first event there's no Events link in your menu bar. You'll see it while you're signed in, so you can fill the page in. Your diners won't.
It works the other way too: once every event has finished, the link takes itself back out.
When and where, in your own words
There's no calendar picker and no map picker here, on purpose. People write "every Thursday in October" or "gates at 11, we serve till we sell out", and a date picker can't say either of those.
So When? is a plain box. Write it the way you'd write it on Facebook.
Where? is the same, and it matters more. "Heritage Park" is an address. "Heritage Park, south side of lot A, by the swings" is directions.
Dropping a pin
Optional, and worth doing for anywhere big. It puts an open in Google Maps link on your event, so people drive to your window rather than to the middle of the park.
- Open Google Maps and find your exact spot.
- Press and hold on it. A pin drops.
- Copy the two numbers at the top, something like 30.267153, -97.743061.
- Paste them into Drop a pin.
On a computer you can paste the whole address-bar link instead.
The Share button's link won't work. Those
maps.app.goo.gl links don't have the numbers in them. Press
and hold on the map instead.
After you save, use the check this pin link. Two numbers are impossible to proofread, and a missing minus sign puts you in the wrong hemisphere.
The flyer
Optional. Plenty of events are just a time and a place. But if the organizer made one, use it. It's what people recognize from wherever they first saw it.
We don't crop it. Everywhere else we ask you to crop a photo to fit. Here we never do, because a crop cuts off somebody's date, price or sponsor. Tall poster, square graphic, wide banner: upload it as it is. Tapping it opens it full size.
Someone else's flyer? Normal for an event, and most organizers are glad of it. Still worth asking whether they're okay with you sharing it, especially if the artwork has a photographer's name on it.
The last day
Housekeeping, and not the date your diners read. They read what you wrote in When?. Nobody else sees this one.
It's how the page clears itself. Set the last day and the event comes off the day after, so you can add a season's worth in one sitting and let them drop off as they go.
Leave it blank for anything with no end — a regular Thursday slot, a spot you work most weekends.
You'll still see a finished event on your own page, marked Finished. Edit it into next year's rather than typing it all again.
Drafts
An event you haven't published is a draft, and only you can see it. Use it for the weekend you're still negotiating with a brewery, or the festival you've applied to and not heard back about.
The row of icons under each event
Four small icons sit under every event while you're signed in. Nobody visiting your site sees them.
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Drag handle — move the event up or down.
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Draft or published — click to switch. The color shows which it is.
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Edit — everything about the event.
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Delete — gone for good, after a confirmation. If you might want it next year, let its last day take it off the page instead.
Dragging works from the handle, not the card. The two columns of dots ( ) are the grip. Press and hold there, then drag.
How many you can have
12 at a time. That's a busy month, and a truck working a season usually wants a shorter page than that anyway.
Finished ones count. An event past its last day is off your public page but still on your list, so it still takes up one of the 12. At the limit, edit last year's into this year's rather than deleting it.
The limit only stops you adding a new event. Nothing already on your page is hidden or removed.
What order they come in
New events go to the top. Drag them into whatever order you want after that.
They aren't sorted by date, and can't be: you're writing when in your own words, and there's no sorting "every Thursday in October" against "Sat 4 Oct".