Community Events: Set the event status based on user role

event-status-by-role.php

<?php
   /**
    * Description: The snippet will allow you to automatically set the status
    * of community events based on user role.
    *
    * Plugins:        The Events Calendar, Community Events
    * Author:         Victor Zarranz, Andras Guseo
    * Last updated:   December 6, 2017
    *
    * User roles: administrator, editor, author, contributor, subscriber
    *   https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities
    * Post stati: publish, future, draft, pending, private, trash
    *   https://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Status
    */

function tribe_community_set_event_status ( $event_id ) {
  
  // If editor, then set status to published
  if ( current_user_can( 'editor' ) ) {
    $post_status = 'publish';
  }
  // If subscriber, then set status to draft
  elseif ( current_user_can( 'subscriber' ) {
    $post_status = 'draft';
  }
  // Fallback, for anything else set to draft
  else {
      $post_status = 'draft';
  }

  $args = array(
    'ID' => $event_id,
    'post_status' => $post_status,
  );
  wp_update_post( $args );
}
add_action( 'tribe_community_event_created', 'tribe_community_set_event_status' );