Simple Event Manager

Simple Event Manager is a user-friendly WordPress plugin that simplifies the management and display of events on your website. With this plugin, you can easily create, edit, and organize events without any coding knowledge. It offers an intuitive interface and numerous features to manage your events efficiently and display them attractively.

Key Features:

• Create and manage events: Add new events with details such as date, time, location, and description.
• Recurring events: Create up to 100 independent daily, weekly, or monthly copies from saved event data.
• Categories: Organize your events into categories for better structure and filtering.
• Image support: Add an image to each event to make it visually appealing.
• Filterable event overview: Display paginated events in a clear list that can be filtered by title, category, date, and location.
• AJAX-based filtering: Events are filtered without reloading the page, improving the user experience.
• Shortcode support: Use the shortcode [simevema_events_overview] to insert the event overview on any page or post. The shortcode offers options to display images, categories, and future events.
• Customizable date formats: Choose from various date formats to personalize the appearance of your events.
• Customizable design: Adjust colors, spacing, typography, columns, cards and single-event layouts under “Events” > “Design”.
• Theme compatibility: Classic themes use the plugin or theme event template; block themes retain Site Editor templates and receive the same event metadata.
• Responsive Design: The plugin is fully responsive and adapts to all screen sizes.

Usage

• Add Events: Go to “Events” > “New Event” in the WordPress dashboard to create a new event.
• Use Shortcode: Insert the shortcode [simevema_events_overview] on a page or post to display the event overview. You can use category, show_image, future, show_category, and per_page to control the display.
• Adjust Settings: Open “Events” > “Design” to customize colors, spacing, typography and responsive layouts. Empty fields restore their documented defaults; invalid values are replaced with a safe value and reported by WordPress.
• Choose data retention: Under “Events” > “Settings”, decide whether plugin data should be permanently removed when the plugin is deleted. Data is retained by default.

Shortcode examples

Insert [simevema_events_overview] into a Shortcode block, the classic editor, or a shortcode element provided by your page builder. This displays the overview and its filter form.

To show upcoming concerts with featured images:

[simevema_events_overview category="concerts" future="true" show_image="true"]

Available attributes:

• category="concerts,jazz": Limit the overview to these category slugs and their descendants. Leave empty to allow all categories. Existing category names are also resolved, but slugs are recommended.
• future="true": Show events dated today or later in the website timezone. Default: false. Events earlier today remain included.
• show_image="true": Display featured images. Default: false.
• show_category="false": Hide the category names on event cards. Default: true. The category filter remains available.
• per_page="12": Set the number of events per page. The default is 12; accepted values are 1 to 100.

Use true or false for boolean attributes; 1 and 0 are also accepted.

Filter behavior

The shortcode defines the base selection. The visitor’s search, category, exact location and inclusive date range narrow that selection. Selecting an earlier start date cannot override future="true". Parent categories include their descendants, including when a child category is selected in the form.

Initial page loading, ordinary GET submission without JavaScript and AJAX filtering share the same query and event-card renderer. The search covers event text using WordPress search. Only published events without password protection appear in the public overview and location choices.

Pagination follows the same behavior. With JavaScript enabled, only the selected overview is updated. Without JavaScript, the owning GET form submits the requested page normally. Changing a filter starts again on page one.

You can add multiple overviews to one page. Each form has unique field IDs and updates its own overview. Without JavaScript, submitting a form reloads the page and applies the submitted filters to that overview; other overviews return to their shortcode defaults. Existing filter URLs without an overview identifier continue to apply to all overviews.

Support and Feedback

If you have any questions or issues, you can contact the plugin developer Sebastian Barg from Webdesign and more. Visit the plugin website https://webdesign-barg.de for more information and support.

With Simple Event Manager, you have a powerful tool at hand to present your events professionally and user-friendly. Try it out and design your event pages today!