User Guides: Events
Adding Events Calendar Links to a Menu
You can add links to your calendar, calendar categories, or specific events using the Menu Builder. In your dashboard, select Appearance > Menus. On the left-hand side along with the usual meta boxes for Pages and Categories, you’ll see Events and Event Categories. First, click “Screen Options” and check the boxes you want to see…
Changing the Text of the Calendar Filter Bar Titles
When Filter Bar is activated on your site, the various filters each have their own title. The Events Category filter, for example, has a default title of Events Category. This seems straightforward, and for the most part it is; however, if you try to translate your site into a language other than English, some aspects…
Community Events Settings Overview
You have a number of controls over how frontend event submission works on your site: who gets notifications of new submissions, whether submissions go live automatically, etc. Almost all of those can be found on the new “Community” settings tab, found at Events → Settings. Note that the Community Events feature is an add-on of…
Community Events Shortcodes
Community Events is an add-on that extends The Events Calendar to allow visitors of your site to submit events to your calendar. This add-on comes with the pages and forms needed to submit and review events, but the following shortcodes can embed those onto any page you’d like, should you prefer them to be in…
Configuring the Events Calendar Filter Bar
Finding the filter settings The first thing you’ll want to do is head over to the Filter Bar settings, which you can find under Events → Settings → Filters in your BBWP site admin. Choosing what to filter The first set of options that can be configured are the filters that are available to include…
Configuring the This Week Widget
Head over to Appearance → Widgets from your site admin dashboard. You’re looking for a widget called This Week Events. Once you find it, drag it over to the sidebar widget area of your choice, then save your settings. Now you can go to the front end of your website and see the This Week Events…
Creating a Recurring Event
While most calendar events are single one-day or multi-day events, there may be times when a series of events, known as recurring events, may be more appropriate. For example: Events that repeat on an interval, such as weekly cooking classes Events of the same type that don’t follow a regular pattern, such as test dates…
Creating an event
In order to add new events, head to Events > Add New – from the Admin Sidebar of your BBWP site. Just as with a page or post, you can add a title and description to your event. The expected controls for saving it as a draft or publishing it are present, too: Event Time…
Creating Custom Fields for Events
When creating your events, do you ever find yourself wishing there was a way to add additional information about your event? What about a checkbox to designate age-restricted events? Or a drop-down of “DJs” to select which one will be performing at the event? The ability to add these additional fields is possible in Events…
Creating Featured Events
There’s a setting in The Events Calendar editor that allows you to “feature” an event. Featuring an event gives it a more prominent appearance in the calendar. For example, here’s a featured event in the calendar’s month view: And here it is in list view: Featuring an event Feature an event by selecting the “Feature…
Creating Venue and Organizer Pages
Venues and Organizers are two bits of handy information that can be added to an Events post. They give additional context for the event: where the event is happening and who is in charge of it. With Events Calendar, Venues and Organizers also have their own pages. This guide will outline creating Venues and Organizers,…
Event Categories
In the same way that traditional categories allow you to add organization to your blog posts, event categories allow you to add organization to your events. For example, with these categories, a music venue can add categories for the different genres of music that are played at the venue. Additionally, the event categories can be hierarchical. This means you…
Event List Widget Settings
Adding the Widget to a Sidebar The first thing to note is about the Event List widget is where to find it. You’ll find it under Appearance > Widgets from the site admin dashboard. Drag it into the sidebar area of your choice. Events Widget Settings There are three settings that help customize the Event…
Event Tags
The Events Calendar includes support for tagging events in addition to specifying categories (which are covered in this article). If you’ve ever used tags for your blog posts or other custom post types, then you’re likely already familiar with how tags are meant to function for calendar events. If you haven’t encountered tags before, you…
Events Calendar Shortcodes
Shortcodes are a convenient way to embed content, code, and other assets without having to touch code yourself. If you have a post or page on your site where shortcodes can be used, you can embed full calendar views there. The Default Shortcode With The Events Calendar, you can add the shortcode [tribe_events] to any…
Events Calendar Widget Shortcodes
Widgets can typically be placed in a sidebar or footer. The Events Calendar comes with a number of cool widgets, but sometimes you might want to use them on your site in locations other than a sidebar. In order to do so, you have the ability to use a set of shortcodes provided by the…
Events Countdown Widget Settings
The Events Countdown widget is a handy little widget that allows you to select a published event from your calendar and display a clock that–you guessed it–counts down to the start date of the event. It’s a fun way to build anticipation for an event- and you can drop it into any sidebar. Adding the Events Countdown Widget…
Featured Venue Widget Settings
The Featured Venue widget shows off a specific saved venue in a sidebar and displays events happening at that venue. In this tutorial we’ll cover the widget settings. Add the Featured Venue Widget to a Sidebar Head over to Appearance > Widgets from the site admin dashboard. Drag the Events Featured Venue widget to any…
Finding Links for Specific Event Views
Each calendar view has its own URL that you can use to link directly to that view. Whatever you have set as your default view (under Events → Settings → Display) will be located at www.yoursite.com/events/ (where events is the slug you set in the general Events Settings). Beyond that, you can find the different views at the followings…
Inserting Calendar Content into Posts or Pages
While the Events Calendar provides some calendar widgets that you can add to your site’s sidebars and such, sometimes you don’t want the calendar content in a sidebar—you want it squarely in the content of a post or page directly. There are several methods for accomplishing the insertion of event content directly into posts and…