Hi, everyone.
Ok, so I have am redesigning a site for a client. Right now he's got a contact form where people can upload information about local events. He wants people to be able to enter the info into the textarea, hit submit, and have it show up on the page. Obviously, he is going to have to moderate and approve the info, but he doesn't want to have to enter it into the page manually, which is what he has to do now.
Is there a plug-in for WordPress to do this with Pages, or should he just use the Comment feature?
Thanks!

With WP, the comments feature is just that ...
they will appear as comments -- a "sub content" of a parent article.

I'm thinking there might be a WP plug-in for an "event" system.

Here are event management plug-ins from the client side ...
where people register for events:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...wordpress+even

But you want to control the events themselves ...
So maybe something more like this?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&s...=1239885209406

Thanks, mlseim. I don't think those are exactly what I'm looking for. Those use third part sites and feeds to populate the events. My client wants people to upload the event directly. I know you can require users to register to be able to post comments, and I know you can set permissions for different users. What I don't know is how to combine the two, and allow registered users to post content directly to a page, via a form. I guess it could be comments, and I'll just style them to not show all the "commenty" stuff and not look so much like comments. Here's the page as it is now. http://www.lasvegasbiker.com/Events.html . Now, that's just an email form. Is there any other way to do this, maybe without using WordPress? This is kind of why I put this in the PHP section, I figured if WordPress can't do it internally, there is probably a PHP script that can.

Well, seeing the page now, it could be done with PHP/MySQL and a special
admin page for the admin to authorize events to appear on page.

There will always be the spammer issue (even if you use captcha). Companies
hire people to enter spam into forms. The admin person would need to deal
with that. The only way around that would be to give each contributor their
own password ... but you want anyone to be able to enter events?

If you only want registered people to contribute, there would need to be a
database for members only. How complicated this gets depends on how much
the admin person needs to do, or doesn't need to do.

I'm booked solid now with jobs, so I couldn't program it, but you could find
someone on the "hire a programmer" section to do it for you. For a freelancer,
it's an easy job and you won't have to pay very much.

Ok, thanks. I will run it by the client and see what he wants to do. His budget is small, which means I can't afford to outsource anything. WordPress was just an idea, and since I haven't actually started re-designing yet, we're still open to ideas.

Do you have any PHP experience?

Just a little, still learning, and no database experience, which is probably my biggest problem. The client has decided to leave it as is for now, and it is something I will work on in future updates for him. As he put it, when the site starts getting more traffic he will be willing to sink money into it. We'll see how that actually pans out.

jyuill,

My company can do this for you, however explaining how to do this is pretty difficult, pretty much, you have to know how to design plugins for WordPress.