The Events Calendar: WordPress Plugin Tutorial

The Events Calendar is a free plugin that turns your WordPress site into a proper events listing. This course shows you how to use The Events Calendar to create events with venues and organizers, shape the calendar views your visitors see, and bring events in by bulk import. By the end you'll have a working calendar you can keep up to date.

What you'll learn

A real events calendar does more than list dates — it gives each event a place, an organizer, and a view that fits your site. Learning The Events Calendar WordPress plugin lets you publish single events cleanly, choose how the calendar displays, and maintain the whole thing without a developer. This course stays within everything the free plugin can do, so you'll know exactly where its limits are before you ever consider the paid add-ons.

Inside the course

• Installing The Events Calendar & First Look
• Creating Events, Venues & Organizers
• Calendar Views, Display Settings & Embedding
• Import, Maintenance & the Events Workflow

Who this course is for

This is for beginners running community, venue, class, or organization sites that need to publish events. No prior experience with the plugin is required. Note that recurring events are a paid feature, so the course focuses on building single events well; our free written tutorials are a good companion.

Frequently asked questions