GiveWP

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The Events Calendar and GiveWP integrate together, which opens up your WordPress calendar to accept donations. That means you can do things like:

Add a donate link to your events
Create an event with a “pay what you want” cost.
Host a live music event with the option to support the artist with donations.

GiveWP is super easy to use, and works almost entirely using shortcodes and or blocks in the WordPress editor.

Creating a donation form

To create a new form in GiveWP, Navigate to Donations → Add Form from the WordPress dashboard.

Showing the form fields for creating a new donation form with the GiveWP plugin. The screen is open on the Form Template options, but the navigation also shows settings for donations, form fields, a donation goal, terms and conditions, offline donations, and email notifications. — Complete the options to create a new form.

Please visit the GiveWP knowledgebase for detailed instructions to create donation forms.

Adding donations forms to events

After creating a donation form, the next step is to open or create the event where the donation form will be displayed. There are two ways to add a GiveWP donation form to your post, page or event.

Use a Donation Form block

GiveWP provides a Donation Form block to embed forms directly in the Block Editor. Add the block and select the donation form to embed.

Use a Shortcode block

In addition to the Donation Form block, it’s possible to embed a form in an event using the WordPress Shortcode block. GiveWP includes a number of shortcodes for displaying form and donation content and they can be used in the Shortcode block.

Showing the WordPress Block Editor for an event post. The event is called Beach Life Festival and there is a Shortcode block embedded in the content that includes the GiveWP shortcode containing the donation form ID. — The form ID can be found by navigation to **Donations → All Forms** from the WordPress dashboard.

Viewing the form

Save the event and visit the front end of the website to view the donation form embedded in the event content.

Showing the embedded donation form on the front end of the event post. The form is embedded on top of the Cover block which has a background image of an ocean wave. The form says Pay What You Want with donation amount options displayed as green buttons, with ten dollars as the default option.

Ideas

Because the donation form is simply a block — using either the Donation Form block or the Shortcode block — it can be displayed in creative ways just like any other block in WordPress. Here are a few things you can try:

Use the Columns block to display the form next to event information.
Use the Cover block to include a background image behind the form.
Use the Restrict Content plugin to display the form only to logged in members. Or use Restrict Content Pro to show the form to a specific type of member. Or add two forms to the event and display one form to certain members and the other form to everyone else.
Create an Organizer for the event and display the form next to it as a way to support a specific person. Use our free Custom Event Labeler extension to rename “Organizer” too something else, like “Artist.”

For even more possibilities, consider upgrading to a paid version of GiveWP. This gives you access to the GiveWP add-on library to enhance your donation forms with things like recurring donations, custom form fields, PDF receipts, and more.