# Discourse Events

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-events/97376
**Category:** Plugin
**Tags:** official, events, included-in-core
**Created:** [September 17, 2018, 3:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-events/97376 "2018-09-17T15:50:24Z")
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### Author: ![nathank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nathank/32/290039_2.png) [@nathank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nathank)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2026, 8:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-events/97376/568 "2026-02-20T08:04:16Z")

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> [@Andrew\_Rowe](#):
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> I think you can have a category that every post is an event and also create events in other regular categories. You can also restrict which users can create an event…. I think

Well, here is where the plugin is a bit messy. And that is mostly due to its history.

It started out life as a plugin which enabled Topic calendars. In this case, every reply on the Topic was an event (if it included a date/time). The Holiday calendar is a great example / use-case of this.

Subsequently, the ability to turn the OP of a Topic into an Event (displayed on a sitewide calendar) was bolted on; this has the somewhat odd name of `discourse_post_event`. This can be controlled per Category (in the Category settings) and restricted to groups via the site setting `discourse_post_event_allowed_on_groups`.

Additionally, you can elect to display a Calendar of these OP events (‘post events’) above a specified Category (will have just the Events from that Category). You can also enable (via a site setting) some fancy sorting of the Topic list of any Category by Event - this is turned on via a Category setting.

Judging by the recent chatter on [meta.discourse.org](http://meta.discourse.org) about it, these per-Topic events now appear to be the dominant way to utilise the Plugin.

Personally, I find the settings that govern all this a bit of a mish-mash, with some confusing cross-over between site settings, category settings, and terminology.

I’d love to see this tidied up / rationalised. As it covers a key functionality for most communities, I’d love to see the plugin made freely accessible to a wider range of Discourse users (currently it is quite paywalled unless you are self-hosting).

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