Out of the Box Responsive Blog/Mag Theme with Events Calendar

[Lauren]

I’ve spent several days looking and figured I’d throw it to the Events community.

Has anyone found a fully responsive theme that is compatible with Events Calendar? I want something that’s simple, a blog or magazine theme, and essentially functional right after install, that will work with Events Calendar without a lot of tweaking. Am I looking for a unicorn?

Thanks for your input.

[Joyce Grace]

Hello Lauren, there are responsive themes out there – I personally am a fan of Studiopress’s Genesis themes, and they have some blog-type responsive themes available.

However, getting the calendar to be responsive will require knowledge of how to do responsive design and CSS coding. It’s not all that easy, and not always solved with CSS alone – an entire design has to be thought of in the responsive mindset (I had to learn this the really hard way!). I would definitely test by starting with ems and percentages and don’t use exact heights and widths.

The Studiopress blog also has some good articles on how to go responsive.

All the responsive Genesis themes keep the responsive part of the css file at the very end so you can find it easily.

Hope this helps point you in the right direction!

[Lauren]

Bah! That’s exactly what I thought you were going to say. Pipe dreams, let me have ’em.

Thanks again. I’ll keep poking around.

[Joyce Grace]

🙂 sorry I couldn’t say anything more ingenious 🙂

I know this is kind of going off topic, but I thought I’d share an article with you that really resonated with me. Lot’s of people disagree about the points made in it, but after having figured out the hard way, as mentioned above, that responsive design is a whole other beast that has to be dealt with in it’s own realm, I personally, really agreed with a lot of what this author was saying. http://managewp.com/5-reasons-why-responsive-design-is-not-worth-it

But no commenting here about it, we might cause a huge debate in a forum that’s supposed to be about calendars! 🙂

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