Browsing & Discovery Pages: Grids, Listings, Calendars, and Schedules

  • Getting Familiar with the Different Ways to Display Events

    The Elevent for WordPress plugin offers users a number or different ways to browse, view, discover, and plan around your events. Here, we'll give you an overview of the options you have to choose from. Each "view" is its own page on your website. Offering every possible view might overwhelm your...

  • Creating Event Grid, List, and Calendar Pages From Default WordPress Templates

    The fastest and easiest way to add a page to your website that shows off your Events is to use the default templates that come with the plugin. These page templates are the different ways your visitors can browse and visualize what you have going on. The plugin comes with 3 page templates: Even...

  • Creating Custom Event Calendar Pages

    The Event Calendar comes with 4 different views of your Elevent events: Monthly Calendar Weekly Calendar Day Schedule List of Shows You can get familiar with them here. By embedding an event calendar into any of your web pages, you can instantly have a fully-functioning calendar with all 4 view...

  • Customizing the Information, Look, & Feel of Events in Grids and Lists

    When creating your own custom event listing, grid, or schedule pages, you'll first want to add a display of your upcoming events. There are a variety of ways to do this, including several Elementor or Beaver Builder modules, WordPress archive pages, and FacetWP's own Listing Templates. When you ...

  • Customizing Filters, Search, and Sort

    You can easily customize the filters, search, and sort options using a WordPress plugin called FacetWP. FacetWP offers a host of options that work seamlessly with the Elevent plugin. These filter, search, and sort pieces complement the Elevent Datepicker nicely--learn more about the datepicker...

  • Adding a Datepicker to an Event Grid or List

    The Datepicker shortcode adds a bar across the page that makes it easy for users to filter events to a single day. It looks something like this: It's recommended you add the datepicker to all event grid and list pages; it's not useful on the calendar views since they are already calendars and ...

  • Pre-filtering Events When Certain Users Land on an Event Grid or Event List

    Event Grids and Event Lists can display a number of different interactive filters visitors can use to winnow down the events that display However, sometimes you might want to direct users to an Event Grid or Event List with one or more filters already set--this is a great way to reduce the numbe...

  • Creating an Archive page for a Festival, Season, or Series

    Once your event is over, you'll likely want to retain a visible history of all the events you presented as part of that festival, season, or event series. Your Elevent Events stop showing after all dates come to pass, but they don't disappear from your WordPress website. It's not very difficult t...