Include Featured Events on Home Page

[Alli]

Hello,

I have Events Calendar PRO and am hoping to create a section on my home page where I can feature upcoming events with photos, and links to the /events page, similar to https://www.northpointe.org/ (screen shot attached, too). Is this possible with Events Calendar PRO?

[Barry]

Hi Alli,

Great question!

If you want to feature specific events or ranges of events on your homepage – perhaps using custom layouts – then you’d really have to do this as a further customization.

You don’t necessarily have to reinvent the wheel completely, though. You could for instance categorize the events you are interested in featuring (though we have a concept of ‘featured events’, at this time our widgets don’t allow you to filter down to just those events, however categories are supported) and use the advanced events list widget or calendar widget to display them.

With the aid of a template override you could change how they are displayed and create something very close to what you see with the site you referenced.

Some further resources that you might find useful:

• Themer’s Guide
• The Events Calendar and Events Calendar PRO shortcodes

I hope that helps 🙂

[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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