How to Add an Event Calendar to a WordPress Website

How to add an event calendar to a WordPress website, start to finish. This video maps the whole journey in six stages, shows the choices you have at each one, and proves each stage on a real screen: create an event, organise with venues and categories, choose the calendar views, take registrations, share the calendar feed, then add repeats and reminders.

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To add an event calendar to a WordPress website, create your events, show them on a calendar page, and let people register. Here is the whole journey. Create Event, then organise with Venues and Categories. Choose your Event views, and set up Registration. Share the Calendar feed, then add Repeats and reminders. Stage one, create an event. Give it a title, a date, and a place. Create Event is at the top of every Eventonomy screen. It opens a blank form. Type the Event title, then set Starts and Ends. Open Registration. People register here takes sign-ups on your own site. Then Publish event puts it on your site. Stage two, organise your events with three lists. Venues are your places, and Organizers are your hosts. Save each one once, and reuse it. Categories and Tags let visitors filter your events. This is the Venues list. Add venue saves a place for every event to reuse. Under Categories and Tags, each category has its own colour. On the events page, a visitor picks a category, and the list narrows to it. Stage three, the calendar page. The plugin makes an Events page for you, and you choose its views. Visitors switch between views such as Grid, List, and a Month calendar. Eventonomy Pro adds Week and Day views, a map, and a photo grid. In Settings, under Appearance, the Event views card ticks the views your visitors get. Default view picks the one that opens first. Here is the Month view on a real site. Each day lists its events, with their start times. Click an event, and its own page opens, with the date, the place, and the way to register. Stage four, registration. Each event chooses how people get in. Take a free RSVP on your own site. Or sell paid tickets, which needs Eventonomy Pro and a payment gateway connected. Registration can also be on another site, or not needed at all. Here is a free event, as a member sees it. Diego clicks Register. One click, and he has a place. The page shows how many people are going. For the owner, each event has an Overview tab, with Registrations and Seats taken. The names are under Attendees. Stage five, the calendar feed. People can add one event to their own calendar, or subscribe to all of them. On Setup and Health, the Export tab prints your feed address. Calendar apps subscribe to it, and follow your upcoming public events. On each event page, Add to calendar offers Google Calendar, Outlook, and a calendar file for Apple Calendar and other apps. Stage six, repeats and reminders. A class or a club night can repeat. People who are going get reminder emails, one day and one hour before. With Eventonomy Pro, you set your own reminder times, and can send them as text messages too. In the event form, Repeats has choices such as Daily, Weekly and Monthly. This drawing class repeats Weekly. On its page, Upcoming dates lists the series. One registration covers every date. And under Settings, Messaging, Event reminders is on from the start. The same stages build different sites. A community calendar, where members submit events and you can approve each one. A studio schedule, with repeating classes at saved venues. A workshop site selling paid tickets, with Eventonomy Pro. Or a club calendar, where people must log in to register. Your next step. Today, create one real event. This week, add the rest, and give each one a venue and a category. Then share your feed address, and set your regular events to repeat. Eventonomy is the free events plugin for WordPress. Create your first event today, and share your calendar this week. Get Eventonomy. The link is below.