Introduction to the Elevent for WordPress Plugin

Just getting started? Let us walk you through the WordPress Plugin in this 10 minute whistlestop tour. We'll help you understand

• How the WordPress Plugin differs from other types of websites
• How the Elevent core platform relates to the WordPress Plugin
• What the Wordpress Plugin adds to your website

Getting Your Bearings

The Elevent for WordPress Plugin is the popular option for organizations who have or want a website built on WordPress. It solves a handful of challenging problems when it comes to white-labeling and really customizing a web presence that doesn't just link out to another website for ticketing or embed problematic iframes onto pages (see below)

The Elevent for WordPress Plugin:

• Syncs and resyncs all of your future event and showtime information onto your website, minimizing data entry and mistakes
• Accelerates the time and work it takes to have a high-grade, bespoke event schedule and embedded ticketing experience
• Provides customizable templates for ways to show off events, including rich, customizable landing page tempalates for each type of event
• Automates adding all embedded ticketing widgets
• Comes with a navbar of Elevent embedded sign-in, sign-out, account management, and a dyamic cart for intuitive online shopping
• Sets the stage to simply copy & paste all other Elevent embedded widgets anywhere on your website--for items like donations, memberships, passes, and so forth
• Evolves into an archived list of past programming so you can add a searchable, grouped archive of past seasons

Welcome to the Elevent for WordPress Plugin

Native Embeds > IFrames

What's wrong with iframes? They can work decently, but we're going for a better result here. iframes have a number of drawbacks, including:

• Not mobile responsive
• Raise all kinds of security flags in web browsers, since they are web pages from a completely different website made to fool the user into thinking they are part of the top-level website. Web browsers are threatening to clamp down on them all the time
• Make it very difficult to get accurate analytics and tracking data
• Usually look completely different in style, color, and typography from the rest of your site.

The way Elevent embeds into websites isn't quite as foolproof as iframes, since they'll inherit the styling and mobile responsivity of the host website. But the end result is far better.