How to post talks (automatically)

This tutorial assumes you have a VIP account – if you’re a talk organiser/venue and would like your talks automatically listed (and editable should you require changes) you can create a VIP account here: talks.london/vip

Login here:

talks.london/login

Adding a talk

Once logged in, choose ‘Add new‘ from the ‘Event‘ menu (top-left) or here’s a direct link:

https://interestingtalks.in/London/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=ai1ec_event

​​​​From there hopefully it will make sense (particularly if you’ve used WordPress before) – here are some common things to bear in mind:

  1. Timings: please specify a start AND end time for your talk.
  2. Categories: select one (or more) categories for your talk.
  3. Ticket prices: please list them in the most concise form possible – for example, put £10 rather than £10.00. If you have general and discounted tickets, list them like this: £10/£7. If your event is free but with donations, list it like this: £3 don. If your event is free, tick the ‘Free Event‘ checkbox. In any case, if you have a page where attendees can buy tickets or register for the event, click the ‘External Tickets‘ radio button and enter the address in the ‘Tickets URL‘ field.
  4. Location: make sure you add enough information for attendees. Top tip: enter your address in the ‘Address‘ field and it should be found – if not, just enter the street address there, and put the name of the organisation/building/room/etc in the ‘Venue‘ field.
  5. Images: we encourage you to upload a talk image – please use the ‘Set featured image‘ link in the ‘Featured Image‘ field. This will appear in various places including on the front page of the site, along with in Twitter and Facebook previews (but at present not on the specific talk page itself). Do feel free to also upload/add images to the talk description using the ‘Add Media‘ button.
  6. Title (and Twitter): we automatically tweet using the talk title + ticket price, and have found that mentioning the speaker’s twitter handle in the talk title gets retweets and more exposure for talks. So, if your speaker has a twitter account add it to the end of the title thus: Herding Hemingway’s Cats – how do our genes work? w/@harpistkat (N.B. For tweeting, talk titles will be truncated at 217 characters (used to be 77 characters before Twitter doubled its tweet length!), which should be enough for anyone, but in any case please remove any generic information e.g. organiser/venue name/etc. Price info is added automatically from the ‘Event Cost and Tickets‘ section, so no need to add it to the talk title).
  7. Publishing: Once you’ve entered all the details, don’t forget to press the ‘Publish‘ button (right-hand side)!

Editing a talk

Choose ‘All Events‘ from the ‘Event‘ menu (top-left) or here’s a direct link:

https://interestingtalks.in/London/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=ai1ec_event

Any existing talks you’ve added using the above method will appear under ‘Mine‘ as below:

​If you have a lot of talks listed, you might find it easier to search for your talk using the ‘Search Events‘ box (top-right):

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Once you’ve found the talk you wish to edit, click on the talk title in the list, make your changes, and press the ‘Update‘ button – voila!