Display of events on homepage

[Alyson Evans]

HI
I am new to TEC. I am finding it hard to find my around simple documentation. I have 3 questions:

1. How do i get 4 boxes of up and coming events on my home page? I am using Enfold theme. It has elements where i can select post categories but events are not posts ? can i make the events show up as if they where posts? or is there a short code i can use? please look at the up and coming events attached that is what i would like

2. in the calendar view is it possible to colour code the event categories (background or text) so for example classes will appear in the calendar in green and retreats would appear in the calendar as blue ?

3. do you have any video tutorials? i would find them very helpful

[Geoff B.]

Good afternoon Alyson and welcome to the Events Calendar Support forum!

Thank you for reaching out to us.
I would love to help you with this topic.

1. How do i get 4 boxes of up and coming events on my home page? I am using Enfold theme. It has elements where i can select post categories but events are not posts ? can i make the events show up as if they where posts? or is there a short code i can use? please look at the up and coming events attached that is what i would like

You have a couple of ways to achieve this.

Using a combination of shortcodes and perhaps a bit of CSS / template customization (you might want to read our Themer’s guide to get a sense of how that works.), you should be able to get the results you are after:

1. https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/pro-widget-shortcodes/
2. https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/embedding-calendar-views-tribe_events-shortcode/

Events are custom post types.

You can include them in the main blog loop using the appropriate setting under Events -> Settings -> General

2. in the calendar view is it possible to colour code the event categories (background or text) so for example classes will appear in the calendar in green and retreats would appear in the calendar as blue ?

You will want to take a look at the following third-party plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar-category-colors/

3. do you have any video tutorials? i would find them very helpful

We do for some of our plugins and we are constantly adding more.

Your best bet is to walk over to any products page and look for the New user primer link.

Have a good weekend,

Geoff B.

 

 

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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