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:

• Event Grid: A filterable/searchable/sortable 3-column tiled view of events
• Event List: A filterable/searchable/sortable single column list of events with clickable showtimes for quick ticket sale and denser schedules
• Event Calendar: A calendar page with multiple viewing options (e.g. month, week, day, chronological list) for displaying events over periods of time. Usually ideal for more sparsely-scheduled events.

You are free (and encouraged) to use more than one allowing the user to switch between them.

Create The Page

An event grid is just like any other page on your WordPress site. So create a page as you normally would, give it a title, and save it. You can leave it as a draft for now.

It doesn't get more basic than that. But so far, all we have is a blank page called "All Events".

On the sidebar, change the Template from Default Template to Elevent Events Grid.

Save and view your page now.

You are off to a great start.

If you don't see any filter options and events, you also might not have synced with Elevent, you might not yet have any future, ticketable events, or you might need to save and re-index the filters.

Next, as you would with any page, add it to any menus, headers, and links you want so visitors can find it.

Customizing Page Templates

These WordPress page templates are developer-friendly; modifying them takes little more than Html and CSS skills. If you are not comfortable editing Html and CSS, you might look into using Elementor templates, WordPress full-site editing templates, or using another pagebuilder.

Learn more about WordPress custom post type templates here.

If you want to create or modify these WordPress page templates and don't want to start from scratch, visit the Elevent Wordpress plugin folder on your hosted WordPress website.

Copy the template php file(s) of your choosing into your child theme and modify to your heart's content.