How to Create Your First Event in WordPress

 

 

This EventPrime Starter Guide will give you a walkthrough on how to setup EventPrime on your WordPress website and publish your first event. It will also cover quick glances at some of the configurable event properties of EventPrime’s Events. So, let us wait no more and get started!

Installation and Activation

The first step here is to install and activate EventPrime on your WordPress website. You can do this from the ‘Plugins’ menu inside your WordPress Dashboard. On the ‘Plugins’ page inside the dashboard, click on the ‘Add New’ button at the top. Then search for EventPrime. Click on ‘Install’ and then ‘Activate’ to activate EventPrime on your site.

The Event Calendar

As soon as the plugin is activated, you’ll be redirected to the ‘Events’ screen of EventPrime. This is a hub screen too, from where you can configure most of your event properties. Right away, you can see that there’s a calendar here with no events in it.

EventPrime features an event calendar from where you can add and edit your events quickly. This calendar appears the same inside the WP Dashboard as it does on the site front-end. This gives you a seamless event management experience as you can see how events will appear to the users on your site from right within the WP Dashboard itself.

Next, let us move forward and create our first event. You can either click on the ‘Add New’ link at the top left of this screen, Or, you can simply click on a date in the calendar. This will open a pop-up form asking you to enter the new event’s essential details. Enter in your event’s title, start date, end date and create the event by clicking on the ‘Save’ link at the bottom of the form.

Once created, the event will show up on the event calendar. It will appear as a colored bar on the calendar spanning the dates on which the event is taking place. The color of the event bar will be the color of this event’s type. Which in this case, is the standard blue color of EventPrime since no Event Type is created yet.

Now you might be thinking how to set an Event Type for your event. To answer this question, we’ll move to the next step of configuring the event’s properties. And that we are going to do from the Event’s Settings.

The Event Dashboard & Settings

 

 

Hover over the event bar on the calendar and you’ll see the event details appear in popup. In this, you can have a quick look at the details you added for the event. The details this case are just the title, start date, and end date for the event. Additionally, this popup also displays the event’s shortcode, which you can use to publish it on any page or post. At the bottom of this popup are the ‘Dashboard’ and ‘Settings’ links, as well as a trash can icon to delete the event. Click on the ‘Dashboard’ link and it’ll lead you to the Event Dashboard.

The Event Dashboard is where all settings related to a single event can be configured. This includes setting an Event Site for your event, adding Performers to it, and tweaking the event’s core settings. For now, let’s just set the Event Type for our event.

Click on the Event Settings icon in the Event Dashboard. This will take you to the core settings for the event. You can also reach Event Settings by clicking the ‘Settings’ link from the event details popup. Inside Event Settings, right below the Name setting, you’ll see the Event Type selection. Now, I am going to set the type of our new event to ‘Concert’, which I created from the ‘Event Type Manager’ screen. You can access the ‘Event Type Manager’ screen by clicking the ‘Event Types’ menu from the EventPrime WordPress Dashboard menu.

For more details on how to work with ‘Event Types’ in EventPrime, please visit our Event Types Guide.

In addition to setting the type of the event, I’ll upload a feature image for our event as well and then save the changes. Next, let’s go back to the ‘Events’ screen and see how this change affects our event in the calendar. The event bar now appears in an orange color, which is the color I had set for the event type ‘Concert’.

Likewise, when you have many events on your site, users will be able to easily identify which events are of which event type.

View All Events

All the essential properties are now configured for our event, so let us now see how EventPrime is going to display this event to the users on the frontend. The front-end event calendar will appear on the [em_events] shortcode. You can put this shortcode on any WordPress page or post of your choice. However, EventPrime creates a page with this shortcode automatically upon activation. This page will exist on your site at the URL: http://www.yoursite.com/events

You can quickly access this page by clicking the ‘Frontend’ link from the top right links on the backend ‘Events’ screen.

On this page, you have an event calendar with multiple views, such as Month, Week, Day, List, and Card. And each view has a unique way of displaying your event details. From here, users can click on an event and visit that event’s page for complete details. Also, users can register for the event if bookings are enabled.

The calendar is followed by a list of Event Types and their colors so users can easily identify which event belongs to which type by their color.

Final Words

Although I complete the EventPrime Starter Guide here, rest assured that this is only the tip of the iceberg. EventPrime offers so many more options to add weight to your WordPress site events. We’ll continue to publish more guides like this on the other amazing features of EventPrime. Stay tuned!

 

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  1. Reply

    Thank you for a brilliant solution for displaying events/courses. I have sent a ticket regarding not all events (of any one type) displaying when that event type is chosen, but my question here is about the Event Slider widget. There are no controls or indicators on the widget slider at all. Is that an error on my site or it doesn’t have any controls or indicators at all?

    Thanks again. I will be very proud to show the site off once I have a few little issues sorted.

    1. Reply

      Hi Jillian, Apology for the delayed response. We came across your comment while clearing our spam. We will add this feature in our future releases.

  2. Reply

    Thanks for the great solution for showcasing an event/course, I have installed the plugin and published the event on the website, but can’t click the event details, I would like to ask why this is

    1. Reply

      Hi Devin, thank you for trying out EventPrime. The Event Details section should work. Could you please send us support ticket and we can look into it asap.

  3. Reply

    I habe no Booking Button in the specific event. It always says all booked. I don’t know why

    1. Reply

      Hi apfelsine, Thanks for trying out EventPrime. You wil see “All Seats Booked” message if there is no seat available in the event booking.

  4. Reply

    Hello!
    when using the profile short code is there anyway that i can remove the Account and Logout options from the shortcode?

    1. Reply

      Hi roslyn, Thanks for trying out EventPrime. Sorry, this option or feature is not available right now.

  5. Reply

    ¿How can I disable the registration step? I need to make it easy for customers, submiting info easly, only the necesary to get the tickets for the event. Without getting registered and creating an user

    1. Reply

      Hi miggut, Thanks for trying out EventPrime. You can use our Guest Booking Extension which allows attendees to complete their event bookings without registering or logging in. You can find more information regarding this here Guest Booking Extension. If you still face any issue you can send us support ticket and we will look into it asap.

  6. Reply

    When you buy the google downloader, can you use it to IMPORT more then 1 calendar?

    1. Reply

      Hi Jon, thanks for getting in touch. I hope you are doing well. At present this is not available, but we already have this feature in our pipeline.

    1. Reply

      Thank you for reaching out. Please upload the extension through ‘Plugin upload’ area of WordPress.

  7. Reply

    Hi,
    Can EventPrime be set to use a different email address to send confirmation/notification of bookings instead of using WordPress’s default admin email address?

    1. Reply

      Hi Marc, Thanks for choosing EventPrime. Yes, we will add this option in our future releases.

  8. Reply

    When I add the event prime calendar to main page (sidebar) it lists all the entered events under the calendar. Is there an easy way to remove this from view?

    1. Reply

      Hi Sharon, Thanks for trying out EventPrime. You can use event shortcodes for displaying desired events according to event types, venues, etc. Please visit Publish Shortcodes Page for more information.
      If you still face any issues you can send us a support ticket and we will look into it asap.

  9. Reply

    Hi,

    How do I hide the time of the events on the calendar, we use for time off so we don’t need to display a set time.

    Thank you

    1. Reply

      Hi irina, Thanks for trying out EventPrime. Yes, you can hide the time of the events on the calendar. You can enable/disable “Hide Event Time From Calendar View” option from Global Settings -> Regular Settings -> Hide Event Time From Calendar View.
      If you still face any issue you can send us support ticket and we will look into it asap.

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