Coordinating an event can be a time-consuming process. Between tracking attendees, promoting your event across social media, and handling on-the-ground logistics, there’s a lot to juggle. But a tool like Event Automator can help you save precious time by streamlining your event management tasks into one central system with Zapier. Wondering when it makes sense…
If you’re an event planner, online event registration is a beautiful thing. One reason? Collecting event registrations helps prepare for your events with an accurate headcount. Even better: You can make money from ticket sales. And you can earn even more ticket revenue by selling tickets with a free ecommerce solution like Tickets Commerce. Tickets…
You may have heard the news about Event Automator, our latest product to help you manage your events on WordPress. You would be forgiven for mistaking Event Automator for one of our other products, Event Aggregator—their names look pretty similar at first glance! But these two products provide very different tools for event planners. In…
Ever since the emergence of blocks and the Gutenberg Editor, there’s been a new way to use WordPress. And recently, the announcement of Full Site Editor opens up how we use WordPress blocks. This new feature allows blocks to be used not just in pages and posts but in all areas of a WordPress site.…
We’re excited to announce our latest product launch: Event Automator! Are you tired of manually organizing and scheduling events and tickets? Do you wish there was an easier way to keep track of details and make sure everything runs smoothly with your third-party integrations and tools? Event Automator is here to help! With this new…
The great thing about The Events Calendar suite of plugins is that they are so versatile. No matter what kind of WordPress calendar website you have, our plugins are easily adaptable to suit your needs. In fact, we’ve got a variety of WordPress calendar examples in our Customer Spotlight blog posts throughout the years. And…
We can all remember when virtual events became commonplace. We’ve embraced and enhanced virtual events out of necessity over the last several years. Recently, many people have been excited to get back to hybrid and in-person events, which may have decreased the number of virtual events on your calendar. However, this doesn’t mean that virtual…
There are lots of reasons to love the Event Tickets Plus plugin for WordPress. One of the biggest reasons: It comes with a QR ticket scanning app, which makes event check-in easier than ever. Forget paper tickets and printed-out attendee lists. With the Event Tickets Plus App, you simply scan each attendee’s ticket at the…
A carefully-chosen theme is super important when creating an events site. Not only should your theme be visually appealing to display your events, but it also needs extensive functionality and flexibility. Choosing a theme also depends on your skill and coding level. For example, are you looking for a page builder or something easily customizable? …
At The Events Calendar, we have a soft spot for nonprofit organizations. In fact, we have a nonprofit program where we grant a discounted Events Calendar Pro license to qualifying nonprofit organizations in need. This month, we’ve chosen to feature one of our nonprofit program organizations, Sense Scotland. This Scottish charity focuses its efforts on…
Chances are, you’ve been on many a Zoom call over the last few years. We all know that Zoom has been popular since its launch, with 400,000 signups in its first month. And it’s still a favorite among remote workers, with 300 million daily active users. While Zoom can be a great tool for buttoned-up…
This has been quite a year for The Events Calendar. Over the past year, we’ve released almost sixty plugin releases! These include maintenance releases with bug fixes and feature releases with awesome new functionality that improves upon what our plugins can already do. As this year comes to a close, let’s look at some of…
You may not consider yourself a writer. But even if you’re not an aspiring scribe, you still need to write catchy event copy to get attendees to your events. When you have a busy calendar full of events, writing those descriptions can take up a lot of your time. That’s where artificial intelligence (AI) can…
Eventbrite is a popular platform for selling tickets online, and for good reason. The site makes it easy to begin selling tickets in minutes, even if you don’t have a website of your own. Although Eventbrite can be a great solution—especially for selling tickets to a one-off event—it has some drawbacks. That includes ticket fees…
We can all agree that libraries are an integral part of any community they’re a part of. Libraries offer their communities a place to borrow books, attend events, and learn about the culture surrounding them. The Charleston Library Society is no exception. Founded in 1748, it is the oldest cultural institution in the U.S. American…