Widgets & Shortcodes
Widgets and shortcodes are handy ways to display events and event information in other places on your site outside of the calendar.
Calendar widgets
Included in The Events Calendar (free) is Event List widget.
Displays a list of upcoming events. A full overview of this widget and its settings is available in a tutorial on our support site.
Events Calendar Pro widgets
Installing the Events Calendar Pro add-on to The Events Calendar provides you with several more handy widgets.
Event List Widget
See Event List Widget
Standard Event (No RSVP or Tickets)
Multi-day Event
Ability to display more event details, such as venue, location, ticket prices, organizer information, and more. Plus, it allows you to display events from a specific category.
Mini Calendar Widget
Mini Calendar Widget
Smaller version of the calendar’s month view. It allows users to select a date and see events on that day. A full overview of the widget.
Event Countdown Widget
Select an event and the widget will display a clock that counts down to the start date of the event. Our support site has additional information on the widget and how it works.
This Week Widget
This Week Widget
Displays events that are scheduled in the current week. Check out the tutorial for more information on this widget.
Featured Venue/Organizer Widget
Featured Venue Widget
Choose a venue or organizer from your saved options and displays events that are associated with them. Learn more about the Featured Venue widget.
Events Calendar Pro Shortcodes
👋 Looking for ticket shortcodes instead? There are plenty of examples for you to check out.
Events Calendar Pro also includes a handful of useful shortcodes that can embed the calendar and events to any WordPress page or post.
There are so many shortcodes that it would be exhaustive to cover each and every one. Luckily, we have a tutorial that does a good job of that, but we’ll cover the highlights here.
Inserting calendar views
List View Shortcode
Standard Event (No RSVP or Tickets)
The Troubadour 9081 Santa Monica Boulevard, West HollywoodThis is where the description goes for events. You can add additional media, conference schedules, and more here.
Multi-day Event
Belmont Shore 1 Grenada Ave., Long BeachThis is where you’d put the event description. This is an example of a multi-day event. Great for conferences, music festivals, and other multi-day events. This example is an event […]
Featured Event
The Troubadour 9081 Santa Monica Boulevard, West HollywoodFeatured events are available only on Events Calendar Pro. This is the description area for the event. You can add images, shortcodes, and all sorts of other things here. For […]
Embed full calendar views into any WordPress page or post. Accepts parameters for filtering the calendar by category, showing a specific date or date range, and whether to display the search bar or not. Check out the full tutorial for more information.
Inserting calendar widgets
That’s right! Not only can you add the widgets above to your theme’s sidebar, but you can add them to the content of any page or post as well. That’s true for each and every widget.
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Inserting single events
So far, we’ve seen that it’s possible to add full and widget-sized versions of calendar views, but Events Calendar Pro can embed individual events as well. Although, this is only sorta like a shortcode because it actually only takes copying and pasting the event URL to embed it.
Community Events shortcodes
Community Events is our add-on that lets people submit events to your calendar. There’s a submission form, editing screen, list of the events a person has submitted, sales reports (if Community Tickets is also enabled), among several other components — and they can all be embedded on any WordPress page or post!
Our tutorial on using Community Events shortcodes provides a deep look at all the possible ways Community Events shortcodes can be added to WordPress content.