Publishing & content
Locations
Add the venues and grounds where your club plays.
Locations are the venues, grounds and halls your organisation plays or meets at. Adding them here gives each one a public page with an address, photo and map, and lets you attach venues to events. You'll find Locations in the admin sidebar under Publish updates.
Who can use this
You need to be an admin or moderator to add, edit or delete locations. The Locations feature must also be switched on for your site — if it's turned off under Features, the sidebar item disappears. If your subscription is overdue, you'll see a banner saying "Admin write features are locked until billing is up to date" and the Save and Delete buttons are disabled until billing is sorted (see Subscription & billing).
What's on the page
The main page lists every location you've added, showing its Name, Address, Visibility and when it was last Updated. You can search by name, slug or address, filter by visibility, and sort. Each row has icons to view the public page or edit the location.
Step by step
Add a location
- Click New location (top right).
- In Location details, enter a Name (must be unique within your organisation), a Slug, and an optional Description and Photo.
- In Address, use the Find address search to look up the venue. Pick a result and it auto-fills the structured fields plus the latitude and longitude. You can edit any field afterwards.
- Check the Time zone — it's pre-filled with your organisation default.
- Set who can see the venue under Visibility, then click Save location.
Set the map pin
Coordinates are filled automatically when you pick an address. The Find address search badges each result as Exact, Place, Street or Area, and warns you if a match is only approximate. If the pin is off, right-click the correct spot on Google Maps to copy the coordinates and paste them into the Latitude and Longitude fields. These coordinates are what power the interactive map and "Where we play" pins on your public site. You can also add a Google Maps URL for an "Open larger map" link.
Edit or delete a location
- Click a row (or its pencil icon) to open it.
- Make your changes and click Save location. Use View public page to see how it looks live.
- To remove it, scroll to Delete location and click the red Delete location button. This also removes it from any events still referencing it, and can't be undone here.
Field reference
| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| Name | Venue name shown publicly. Must be unique within your organisation. |
| Slug | The URL ending (/locations/your-slug), kebab-case. |
| Description | Optional text on the public location page. |
| Photo | Header image for the public page. |
| Find address | OpenStreetMap search that auto-fills the address and coordinates. |
| Single-line address | The displayed address; derived from the fields below if left blank. |
| Time zone | Default time zone for events scheduled at this venue. |
| Google Maps URL | Link used for "Open larger map". |
| Latitude / Longitude | Map pin coordinates. |
| Visibility | Public, Members-only, or Role-required. |
| Required role | For Role-required only: Member, Moderator or Admin. |
Tips & FAQ
- The map lives on the public site, not here. The admin form captures coordinates; the interactive map and pins appear on your public location page and "Where we play" list.
- Members-only and Role-required work like protected Pages: anonymous visitors are sent to sign in, and a missing role returns a 404.
- Linking venues to events: locations you add here can be attached to Events, which use the venue's time zone by default.
- Changes are recorded in the Activity log.