The Events Calendar for WordPress: Tutorials

Welcome to the tutorials page! Here, you’ll find a list of all tutorials Modern Tribe has published on The Events Calendar since we launched 2.0, and should be a guide you can use after reviewing the themer’s guide and documentation page.

An important note: before doing anything, make sure you’ve checked out our new user primers. We’ve got a separate introductory primer for each plugin (The Events Calendar, Eventbrite Tickets, Community Events & Facebook Events) that you’d be well served to read before jumping into the more technical tutorials below.

New User Primers

1. The Events Calendar/Events Calendar PRO
2. Eventbrite Tickets
3. Community Events
4. Facebook Events
5. WooTickets

Using the Events Calendar PRO

1. Installing & activating The Events Calendar 2.0
2. Understanding the settings panel
3. A walkthrough of the settings panel
4. Creating my first event(s)
5. Finding your events & adding them to the menu
6. Migrating Events Calendar from 1.6.5 to 2.0

Using Facebook Events

1. How to create a Facebook App ID

License Keys, Updates, & Renewals

1. License keys: when you need them & when you don’t
2. Finding your license key & re-downloading the plugin
3. Updating & using your license key
4. Manually checking for updates to Modern Tribe plugins
5. How to renew or upgrade you plugin license
6. Moving your license key to a new site

Theme Integrations & Visual Modifications

1. Themer’s Guide to The Events Calendar
2. Integrating The Events Calendar with the Genesis theme
3. Doing template overrides
4. Remove “list” & “calendar” toggle buttons from the front-end
5. Rename the calendar from “Calendar of Events”
6. Remove “Calendar of Events” heading on events list page
7. Adjusting how many years display in the calendar view drop-down

Widget Modifications

1. How to completely customize widgets
2. How to show featured thumbnails in the Next Event widget
3. Change the size of pop-up in calendar (grid) widget

Queries, Categories, Tags & Event Loops

1. Integrating post categories & tags with events
2. Add the post thumbnail to your events list
3. Coloring your category events
4. Queries and pagination
5. Query ongoing & single day events separately
6. Show your events in the main post loop
7. Category-based filters on calendar view

Venues, Organizers & Maps

Modifying & Extending Events

1. Change events calendar strings without editing language files
2. How to hide events from unregistered users
3. Removing the add-on upsell in Events Calendar PRO
4. Removing the events dropdown from the WordPress admin bar
5. How to add events to your RSS feed