Pre sales technical question about which plugin to go for

[Tyler Sands]

Hi all,

I am building a website and feel that either your Events Calendar Pro or Event Tickets Plus plugins could be perfect for what I need to do.

The idea is to have an archive of events (maybe limited to 6-10?), showing most recent first. These events will display a main image, date and description, with a more info/book now button per event. However, I need to be able to filter these events by category before clicking through to book. From that point, customers should be able to book & pay for the event.

Am I correct in thinking Events Calendar Pro and the Filter Bar plugins would work for this? The calendar view isn’t vital for this project, and I don’t think I need a front-end calendar at all, just a group of events.

Here’s an example of the layout, just to make sure that I’m making sense!

Thank you!:)

[Geoff B.]

Good evening Tyler and welcome to the Events Calendar forum!

Thank you for your interest in our products.
We’ll be glad to answer your questions.

Am I correct in thinking Events Calendar Pro and the Filter Bar plugins would work for this?

You will totally need the Events Calendar Pro to have access to the Photo view (which matches your description). You can have only that view activated should you wish to.

The good news is that each of our view is easily customizable using template overrides.
You might want to read our Themer’s guide to get a sense of how that works.

We can easily get you started with that if you want.

As for the filter bar, that is up to you.
If you are only looking to filter by category, you could simply add the customization to the photo view and hardcode your categories.

This is because, the Events Calendar Pro makes it easy to filter by category based on the URL.

If on the other hand, you are looking for more advanced filtering (cost, day, organizer, tag, venue, etc..), then Filterbar is clearly the way to go.

As per the booking part, depending if you want to be able to sell tickets through WooCommerce or not, you might also need Event Tickets Plus.

Let me know if that helps.

Have a great day!

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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