Event by Elegant Themes is a multi-purpose WordPress theme capable to transform a simple blog into events website. It has back-end options panel with events management dashboard so that you can display past and future events on the homepage of your events website. The theme has been supported by a superb and interactive calendar so that visitors could pick up date and moth to find events for specific period. The premium event WordPress theme has been provided with most powerful features like : Unique background image / textures, Bold stylish fonts and custom widgets etc.
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The footer area just 4 columns space so you can surely try adding custom widgets to display custom text5 (contact details), links and latest events list. If you are searching for a WordPress template that brings all advanced event relate features then you can try it. The back-end options panel is known as “ePanel” and it provides all general and advanced customization features so you can apply best color skin, layouts and typography style.
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Why Event Theme by Elegant Themes ?
You can try to search for a best event WordPress theme on internet and you will find lots of free/premium WP themes. But most of them are either depended on external plugins which not good for security and smooth loading. Moreover, you may find some great looking stylish templates but they might load slowly which can affect SEO ranking.
But Elegant Themes have tried to wipe out of these troubles by creating single theme where you can expect amazing stylish look, high loading speed, ease of event management (listing and display) and much more. Event if you have never done CSS or PHP coding you can still start a professional looking event website with this theme.
All Features : Event WordPress Theme
The theme allows you to pick any color skin or background style so you are free to go for your own styling. But it still provides 5 decent color skisn to help you get started quickly. The color skins list consist of Red, Blue, Purple, Green and Teal so you can pick any one that looks right. Elegant Themes provides custom theme options panel (ePanel) so you can switch between these color skins or change fonts of do all customization any time in just few minutes.
Interactive Calendar :
“Homepage calendar” is one of the highly impressive and important feature of Event theme. It’s clean interface will display all your future and past events without loading the whole screen. Thanks to developers for using ajax based calendar which loads infinite number of events on the fly. The advanced features of calendar will allow you to insert multiple events for single date and it will showcase all events for the same date.
In-short, your customers can now browse all your events just within this events box and then they can use “Full page” link to check out full even details. Having an easy event browse (calendar) can improve your users experience and it may lead to get more event registrations.
Unique ET Options :
The Event theme has unique options so that you can create detailed events listing using regular post format. The theme provides no special post type for events but it definitely has unique features set which is found at the bottom of post editor. The “ET Options” will allow you to display Google Map, Event type, Ticket price, Location details and ticket booking URL. You just need to fill the fields just like image below and it will be visible on front-end. Here you are also getting an option called “Sold Out which is used when you want to display status of “No ticket available”.
Blog Page :
This Event WordPress Theme is released for events website but still it brings all basic WordPress page templates and widgets. And one of them is “Blog Page” which allows you to share your news and updates with it’s standard blog page. The blog posts are totally separate from events listing and they will not have any events related listing features.
Event WordPress Theme Elegant Themes
- Shortcodes and Widgets
- Page Templates : Blog feed, FullWidth, Image Gallery, Portfolio
- Multiple color skins
- Options : SEO, Advertisements, Homepage, Navigation
- Events Page : Excerpt view (sidebar)
- Events Post : Buy ticket link, Featured image, Location Map
- Contact Page
- Ajax Event Calendar : Browse and display multiple events
- Widget supported custom homepage
- Sidebar and Footer widget blocks
- Translation options
- SEO friendly and Light weight
- And many other features