Please Note that both below and on the right hand side you will find accordions. To open and close them, just click on the headings of anyone of them. The accordions below display the images of the form, where the content of those fields go on your listing and where those fields are located on your events. We have also given examples of what the light box looks like when people click on an image when viewing your events, what your event card looks like as well as what the search page looks like when people are doing searches for properties on Home to Castle. Almost everything you will find here is self explanatory, but some fields are not that obvious. after going through this help page, please feel free to also watch the short videos we’ve created on how to create a listing. This will make creating your listings an easy process.
Getting Started
Please use the corresponding accordion on the left hand side with the one below to learn how to create your listings.
1. Event Name – This is the title of your event and is will be displayed on the front end of your event. It is also used to find your events on the edit events page when you want to edit or delete any of the events you’ve created.
2. Hero Header Image – Please select a hero header image for your event. If you would like to put the dates of your event on your image like you see in the example you will find on the toggle labeled “Event Example With Field Locations”, please do so. If you would like us to create your event image for you we can do that as well. the dimensions of this image must be 2,000px wide x 700px tall.
3. Search Grid Header Image – This image sits on top of your event card which people will see when doing an event search on the search page and will display on the event main page for events taking place that day and the month(s) your event takes place in on the main events page. the dimensions of this image are 500px wide by 30opx tall.
4. Event Gallery Images – If you would like to add gallery images to your event, you can do so here. You can put in images from 400px wide x 400px high all the way to 2500px wide to 2500px tall. this should give you a wide range of images sizes that can be square, portrait and landscape. You have can have a minimum of eight images and a maximum of fifty.
5. Event Description – Please enter a description of your event here. You have 1,600 characters to do so.
6. Expert – This sits on your event card on the main pages for today’s events and this month’s events and is meant to give people an idea of what your event is about. You have a hundred characters which includes spaces to create your excerpt. An easy way to do this is to copy and past some of the text from your event description. Just grab text from the start. Not to worry about how much you copy because any excess will be cut off. Three periods will be put at the end so even if part of a word is cut off, the three periods will indicate their is more to read when they go to your event.
7. Event Type – Please select what type of event your are putting on here. If you cannot find your event type here, please select other and in field eight (other event type) enter your event type here and we will add this as an option.
8. Other Event Type – If you could not find an event type in the previous field, please enter it here. We will take your event type and add it to our list so people can choose it in the future.
9. Event Venue – Please select your event venue. If your venue isn’t here, please select other. Doing this will open up a new field to the right of this one titled “Other Event Venue. Please enter a name for your venue here.
10. Event Address – Please enter the event address here. This will display at the top of your event just below your event name.
11. Event Map Location – Once again, please enter the address of your event in the event map location field. This will place a pin of your event on your event profile and when people are doing searches for event, it will also show up on that map.
12. Event Cost – Please select whether your event is free, piad or donation. If you have a mix of these, please select the appropriate fields.
13. Event Start Date – From the dropdown calendar, please select the start date of your event.
14. Event End Date – From the dropdown calendar, please select the last day of your event.
15. Start and End Month(s) – Please select the month your event takes place in. If it only takes places within a single month, please select that one month.