- Hey, y'all, I'm Kori Ashton.
And in this very short video
I'm gonna teach you how to create
in just a couple of clicks, a full events
calendar inside of your WordPress website.
You can have a list view, a month view
and a day view all for free with the events calendar.
I'm gonna show you how to do it right now.
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So here's the example of this style of just kind
of a landing overview page that you can have, right?
This has everything that you would need to
have to showcase the upcoming events.
You have a list view, a month view,
which is really nice if you need to
actually have a calendar view like this
where you still have the events visible,
you can click on them
and get a quick glimpse, right?
It's got a nice little hover effect, right?
As you're looking at that, let's go back
to that month view there.
You can set by default which view
you'd rather have be the first one.
And you even have a day, if you have
a lot of events going on sometimes
that's nice to present.
Remember all of this is inside
of the events calendar free version even
so, I mean, that's kind of really nice.
Let's go back to that list view
and you can get a really nice overview
of kind of what all's here.
You see the date here on those left side,
you see the title of the event.
If you were to go into the individual
event itself, again, it has its own landing page.
So all of this is made within just
a couple of clicks you guys.
You don't have to do any sort of code
in order to get this calendar to function
like this for you.
This is out of the box, easy to roll out
and just go and all of a sudden these pages
are all being made for you.
If you needed to, you could go
up to the very top of here, grab that URL
and send that out and advertise your event, right?
If you had a single event that you needed to advertise.
It's got this nice little find here
so if we wanted to look for a specific thing
like cooking or learning classes
or anything like that, if we do find events
there's a lunch and learn right there,
cooking class, nice.
Anything like that, that you need,
you can see we've got the nice images here,
a spot for your featured image to just present.
And of course, if you wanted to,
you could come in here
and add in any sort of video if you had
something like that, any sort of promotional
materials, anything like that,
a PDF that you need to upload,
a form for them to register, whatever you'd like
to add to this you can easily do that.
But this kind of solution out of the box
is just easy to go, plug and play.
Let me show you how to do it.
So the events calendar lives in the repository,
WordPress.org, right?
This is the landing page for it.
But you don't really need to come here
and click this download button.
You can actually get to this straight
from your WordPress dashboard.
So head into your dashboard,
head over to plugins and we're going to choose,
add new right here.
In this right hand search area
you're gonna type in the events calendar.
And of course the one we're looking for
is right here, the events calendar
by Modern Tribe right here
and click install now
and click activate.
And once that's active on this left side
now you have a post type over here for events.
So super easy for you to come into
and add a new event.
You can utilize the powerful tools of tags
and categories inside of WordPress
so that you can categorize all of your events.
If you have E-learning opportunities,
if you have cooking classes, if you have
different sorts of presenters even,
you can categorize them by people presenting,
any way you wanted to do that you can do that.
You've got venues opportunity, organizers
and there are all sorts of tools
for you to import calendar events
from a another calendar if you're already using something.
You would go into the settings if you wanted to
and that's kind of the area that
when you get in here you can kind of set up
these things pretty easily and quickly.
But I just want you to see what it would look
like out of the box for you to come in here,
click add new event, right?
Come in here.
This is gonna be, cooking with Jan.
You can add your description here.
By the way, this plugin works perfectly fine
with Gutenberg as well if you're using
that block editor.
You're gonna choose your date of the event, right?
And we're gonna put that this is happening on July 19th
and this is gonna be an early farmer's market,
6:00 AM to 2:00 PM all day long.
And you can have an all day long event
if you actually have that, you can certainly put that.
You can create a venue if you'd like
over here inside of these settings
if you have a regular event happening
at like a farmer's market, a consistent location,
you can do that so that you can
pull from that right away.
So I would come in here
and just find that farmer's market
and drop it in here.
You can show the map.
You can show the link if you wanted to.
And if you had an organizer, a specific organizer,
you have that opportunity as well to find
that if you wanted to.
For the sake of now I'm just gonna move along.
If you wanted to send them out to a place
to buy tickets or maybe find more information
or go view a video or a Facebook group,
something like that, you have an opportunity
to add anything you'd like to here.
And then you can put event cost
if you wanted to in there, what symbol do you wanna use?
We're gonna put that in before
and we're gonna say, you know, $12 to join the class.
Excellent.
And that's really all you need.
The only other option that you might wanna do
is add in that image, you know, that cover image.
So you're gonna click set featured image
and you can come in there
and let's actually grab this one.
And we're gonna put in, always wanna put in
your alt text, right, for accessibility
and SEO.
Awesome and set featured image.
All right.
And then you can go ahead and click publish.
That simple, that straightforward.
Let's go look at this individual page
for the event itself.
July 19, 6:00 AM to 2:00 PM, $12 cost.
There you go.
If I had a full description of course
it would've been here.
There's your Google calendar.
Here's more details.
There's our link over to our website.
If we'd had a specific address, of course
the map would've rendered that
and you've got all the other details
that's needed living right here.
That easily done.
If you wanted to see what the calendar
looked like overall, we would come up here
and go to events and say view calendar.
And that's where again, you would find that
layout inside of your website for
kind of this list view, that month view,
or again, that day view.
You guys, that easily done with a totally free solution.
I am all about the events calendar.
It is such an amazing tool.
And if you're ready to have a little bit
of a budget, you can actually get
all sorts of other add-ons.
They do have an additional free extension
for event tickets so if you're interested
in being able to actually have tickets
being purchased here on your website,
they have another free tool that you can do
as an add-on, but they have a lot of
premium tools as well including a brand new one
for virtual events that connects with Zoom.
It's pretty powerful, pretty amazing.
All right, you guys, I hope you're having
a great WordPress Wednesday.
I will catch up with you next time.
Bye everyone.
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