Touring the admin interface

HappenBoard puts everything behind a single menu entry. This guide maps out what each screen is for, so you know where to look.

One menu, one app

Events, venues, organizers, attendees and bookings do not get separate menus in the WordPress sidebar. They all live inside the HappenBoard screen, which runs as a full-screen application. That is why the usual WordPress chrome steps out of the way once you are inside.

The screens

  • Dashboard: your starting point, with widgets summarising what is coming up and what still needs setting up.
  • Calendar: a month, week, day or agenda view of everything scheduled, where you can also create and reschedule events.
  • Events: the full list of events, with filtering, sorting and bulk actions.
  • Attendees: everyone who has signed up, across all your events.
  • Venues: reusable locations with their address, coordinates and capacity.
  • Organizers: reusable contacts with their email, phone and website.
  • Bookings: appointment requests, with Booking types and Availability nested underneath.
  • Integrations: connections to outside services, such as maps, weather and anti-spam.
  • Settings: everything else.

Screens that live in tabs

A few areas are tabs rather than menu entries, which keeps the menu short.

  • Events holds the Categories and Tags tabs.
  • Settings holds General, Email, Migration, Tools, AI agents and Health.

Who sees what

The menu adapts to the permissions of whoever is signed in. Administrators see everything. Editors can manage events, venues, organizers, attendees and bookings, but Settings and Integrations stay hidden from them, and exporting the attendee list is reserved for administrators because it contains personal data.

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