Events

Created: May 12, 2008. Updated: February 15, 2010 by Arnan
Name Events
Current version 2.1.1 – Stable
Previous version 2.1
Requires WordPress 2.7, PHP5 or newer
License GPL
Demo As seen in the sidebar
Demo
Downloads wp-events 2.1.1
Support Free Support Forum
  Changelog
On this page Screenshots – Installation
Upgrade – Usage – Translations

Summary

Create a list with events/appointments/concerts/future happenings and show them on your site.
The plugin features a straightforward user interface in the Wordpress dashboard to add/edit and delete events and set some options. Events now also ships with a widget for even easier integration in your theme! Additionally, Events allows you to list Events on a seperate page. Here you can list Old (archived) events future events and if you want, today’s events.
When you create or edit an event you can set it to be archived. So that it remains listed. Optionally non-archived events are automatically deleted one day (24 hours) after they expire.

Features

  • Easy installation
  • Widget for themes that support it
  • Separate page for events
  • Completely customizable layout
  • Multi language
  • Link events to pages/posts
  • Duplicate events
  • Set a start and end time (duration) for events
  • Show events in your sidebar
  • Manageable categories
  • Archive events
  • Edit existing events
  • Auto remove old, non-archived events
  • Unlimited dateformats to show events dates
  • Options page
  • Set a date and time to the minute
  • Set a message to show before and another one to show after the event occurs
  • User level restriction
  • Management page
  • Set amount of events to show in the sidebar
  • Un-install option to remove the database table
  • And more, see for yourself…

Screenshots


Screenshots might look different depending on the current version

Manual Installation:

With sidebar widget

      1. Upload the wp-events folder to your wp-content/plugins/ folder.
      2. Activate the plugin and widget from the “plugins” page.
      3. Goto Settings > Events and configure the plugin where required.
      4. You can now go to Posts > Write Event to schedule events.
      5. Make a donation. It’s well appreciated!

Without sidebar widget

      1. Upload the wp-events folder to your wp-content/plugins/ folder.
      2. Activate the plugin from the “plugins” page.
      3. Goto Settings > Events and configure the plugin where required.
      4. Open wp-content/theme/-yourthemefolder-/sidebar.php in your favorite editor (this can be any text editor)
      5a. Add where you want the events to show:

      <?php if(function_exists(events_sidebar)) { ?>
<li><?php echo events_sidebar(); ?></li>
<?php } ?>
      5b. Optionally you can show a specific category or override the amount of events to show:

      events_sidebar($amount, $category_ID);

      Either one is optional but if you only want to specify the category you need to set the amount also, here are some examples:

      <?php echo events_sidebar(5, 2); /* Show 5 events from category 2 */ ?>
<?php echo events_sidebar('', 3); /* No amount override but show category 3 */ ?>
<?php echo events_sidebar(8); /* Show 8 events */ ?>
<?php echo events_sidebar(6, ''); /* Show 6 events */ ?>
      6. Save and upload ’sidebar.php’ to its location
      7. You can now go to Posts > Write Event to schedule events.
      8. Make a donation. It’s well appreciated!

Upgrade:

For upgrading you are encouraged to use another plugin of me. CustomQuery This enables you to easily upgrade the database when required… No need for ugly login routines to PhpMyAdmin and it’s dead-easy, right from the dashboard in Wordpress!!

version 1.5.x, 1.6.x, 1.7.x, 2.x to 2.1.1

      1. Disable the plugin
      2. Upload the new files overwriting the old ones
      3. Activate the plugin
      4. Once or twice save the language settings for the localization option to take effect

all older versions

      1. Un-install the plugin using the uninstall option in the options > events Dashboard.
      2. Upload the new files over the old ones
      3. Activate the plugin
      4. Enjoy

To enable the events listing on a separate page:

      1. Create a new page.
      2a. To show just events put in the page field:

      [events_show]

      OR

      [events_show type="default"]
      2b. To also show the archive, put in the page field:

      [events_show type="archive"]
      2c. And to show todays Events, put in the page field:

      [events_show type="today"]
      2d. Or to show a weeks worth of Events, put in the page field:

      [events_show type="week"]
      3. Save the page.

Custom page listings:

      Show a specific category:

      [events_show category="2"]
      Show a specific event:

      [events_show type="default" event="9"]
      To show just 2 events on your page use:

      [events_show type="today" amount="2"]
      To also show override the sort order:

      [events_show type="default" order="thetime ASC"]
      Or a combination:

      [events_show type="archive" amount="15" order="ID ASC"]

Note: For the ‘order’ field review the table and use a table field name and ASC (ascending) DESC (descending), make no mistake here!

Translations:

See if someone made a translation to this plugin or create and upload your own at Translations Forum.

Un-install:

      1. Goto ‘Settings > Events’
      2. Click ‘un-install plugin’ at the bottom of the page
      3. Remove the folder from ‘wp-content/plugins’
      4a. Remove the php from your sidebar.php if you don’t use the widget
      4b. If you use the widget, disable it

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