If you’re hosting a full calendar of events, your time is best spent preparing for said events, not fooling around with your website. With that being said, we’d love to show you our favorite calendar automation tools to save you time on your WordPress site. We built The Events Calendar as a free resource so…
What are UTM parameters? UTM parameters are custom tags which can be embedded in your event URL. Their goal? To help you track where your page visitors are coming from with more specificity. UTM parameters send information about a user’s digital journey back to your Google Analytics dashboard. By using a specific, recognizable tag in…
If you host multiple events in one day and would like your attendees to view them all at once, then Schedule Day View is right for you! Here’s the thing. If you’re hosting an event with multiple activities throughout the day, you run the risk of crowding the time slots in your calendar day, making…
Singapore Film Society is a nonprofit organization founded in 1954 which aims to foster a community around the appreciation of artistic, cultural, or educational films. They host a large variety of film festivals, individual screenings, Q & A’s with industry experts, lectures, and workshops so that amateur and expert cinephiles alike can learn and enjoy…
Going Gutenberg is an ongoing series about our process of integrating our products with the WordPress block editor. View all chapters in the series here, and be sure to follow us on Facebook or Twitter to never miss an update. In Chapter III of the Going Gutenberg series, we announced the release of Events Gutenberg,…
A church’s business is to inspire, so it’s critical for a church website to have an inspiring design. Church websites fail to excite their visitors, and often struggle to communicate key information to their congregation because they are missing inspirational designs. The churches we’ve selected below, have given their websites a fresh and lively feel…
The European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect on May 25th, 2018. With WordPress powering over 30% of the web globally, this new regulation has prompted many ongoing conversations within the WordPress community. As WordPress plugin authors and users ourselves, we’ve actively engaged in our own discovery and planning for GDPR.…
We actively maintain five free plugins on WordPress.org, and with maintenance releases shipping every three weeks, that means we frequently find ourselves deploying updates via Subversion (“SVN”), the version control platform used by WordPress.org. A developer has traditionally managed this process by hand, but we recently decided to automate this process. Enter: SVN Bot. With…
You want to sell event tickets, right? Selling more of your event tickets means more money in your pocket, and more customers interacting with your brand in real life. If you’re looking for the easy way to increase your ticket sales, we’ve got a few quick tips for you. 1. Make your event easy to…
A strong brand reinforces who you are, and often dictates how you’re perceived. Branding your business has the power to make you more likeable, and should be well-suited to the target audience you’re trying to reach. We can’t tell you what your brand should be, of course. But we can help you present the events…
You want your website to make a great impression on your audience. You’ve spent hours designing a stunning site that’s unique and true to your brand, and now you need your event pages to match. With a few key features and best practices in mind, you can give your event page the power to convince…
If you’re looking for an Eventbrite alternative to sell tickets on your WordPress site, then you’ve come to the right place! Event Tickets has everything you need to start selling tickets today. Start collecting money and RSVPs for your events quickly and easily with just one plugin. For paid events, simply enter your desired ticket…
Going Gutenberg is an ongoing series about our process of integrating our products with the WordPress block editor. View all chapters in the series here, and be sure to follow us on Facebook or Twitter to never miss an update. We’re excited to announce the release of an official extension for The Events Calendar called…
When St. Olaf College approached Modern Tribe to redesign their website, they had two priorities at the top of their mind: the ability to customize the appearance of their site, and the functionality to support a multi-site network. As a prestigious liberal arts college with a rich Lutheran history, the ability to customize their calendar…
Have you wanted to design an event calendar and single event listings without writing code? Beaver Builder’s integration of Beaver Themer with The Events Calendar makes that possible. In our Themer’s Guide, we walk you through the basics of customizing how your website displays events. If you are using the Beaver Builder page builder, and…