How to Choose the Right Fonts for Your Website
Different fonts come with different connotations. Read about how to choose fonts that convey your business’s personality and learn how to update your font settings in WordPress.
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Crowdsourcing Events With Your Community Calendar
There are serious benefits to crowdsourcing events for your WordPress calendar. By acting as THE events hub for your community, you’ll attract new traffic to your website, increase your credibility, and provide your visitors with solid value. Not to mention, crowdsourcing events can save you major amounts of time. Instead of spending hours scouring the…
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Rolling Our Own Redux: Going Gutenberg Chapter VII
Going Gutenberg is an ongoing series about the process of integrating our products with the WordPress block editor. View all chapters in the series archive, and be sure to follow us on Facebook or Twitter to never miss an update. One of the key promises of the new block editor coming in WordPress 5.0 (a.k.a….
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5 Ways to Improve Page Speed in 2022
Page speed has a major effect on search ranking, site abandonment, and sales conversion. Today’s web users have zero patience for sites that are slow to load—according to a survey by Akamai and SOASTA, even a 100-millisecond delay (0.1 seconds) can result in a 7% reduction in conversions. The importance of making sure your website…
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Important Facebook API Changes
TL;DR – Facebook added even more restrictions to their API and it sucks for everyone. Back in April, Facebook made abrupt, significant changes to their API that effectively halted the ability for services like Event Aggregator to import events from Facebook into other websites. Despite getting hit with this major surprise, Facebook gave developers hope…
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Awesome WooCommerce Extensions for Event Ticket Sales
WooCommerce is one of the most popular e-commerce platforms in the world. And you can add even more oomph to your site by enhancing it with extensions and add-ons. Out of more than 290 official extensions in their library, we’ve narrowed down the top four to help event organizers boost ticket sales. Name Your Price…
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Tracking Marketing Efforts With UTM Parameters
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…
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Anatomy of an Awesome Event Page
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…
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Events Gutenberg Extension: Going Gutenberg Chapter 3
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…
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Beaver Builder Integrates with The Events 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…
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Seven Tips to Optimize Your Recurring Events
It’s our passion to help you manage your events. We know that managing recurring events can be a big job, so we’ve put together a few handy tips to make your life a little easier. 1. Do your research If you want to plan a recurring event, the first thing you’ll need to do is…
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Replacing Metaboxes: Going Gutenberg Chapter 2
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 I of the Going Gutenberg blog series, we examined how the introduction of…
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Featured Calendar: Listone Magazine
Listone Magazine is our latest iteration in our Featured Calendar series. They utilize our full suite of plugins to bring users all of the features that they need to stay informed about upcoming events. What is Listone Magazine? Within a small town in Northern Italy, the non-profit Listone Magazine is using community-generated events to promote…
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New Plugin: Image Widget Plus
Images bring websites to life, so it’s no surprise one of the common questions asked by new WordPress users is: How do I add an image to my sidebar? You can manually add images using HTML code, but many people prefer the more convenient option of using a simple, lightweight plugin to do the work…
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The Events Calendar + WordPress REST API
Extensibility is a key feature of The Events Calendar and Events Calendar PRO. That’s why we’re excited to announce event data is now accessible through the WordPress REST API. Update: Version 4.6 of The Events Calendar introduces full REST API support. See our guide: Introduction to The Events Calendar REST API Version 4.5 of The…
