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Event Post

The only WordPress plugin using native posts as full calendar events with begin and end date, geolocation, color and weather.

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Tested up to WordPress 7.1
Current version6.1.2
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 7.1
Minimum stackWP 6.3 · PHP —
Directory statusactive
Last directory update8 Oct 202625d ago
Active installations1K+Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating4.3 / 5 from 35 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records Event Post version 6.1.2 as active, updated 25d ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.

Overview

About this plugin

Adds some meta-data to posts to convert them into full calendar events.

ics), outlook(vcs), or Google Calendar.

Geolocation works thanks to openstreetmap.

It can also fetch the weather, but doesn’t bring the sun 🙂

Follow @wpeventpost on Twitter for latest news.

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Post metas

Date attributes

  • Begin Date
  • End Date
  • Color
  • Event Status
  • Event Attendance Mode

Location attributes

  • Address
  • GPS coordinates
  • Event Virtual Location

WooCommerce compliant

You can enable event features on Woocommerce products. The event will be displayed on the product page. Moreover, the product price will be displayed in event list, calendar, map and timeline.

This, way, you can sell tickets for your events, effortlessly and without any additional plugin.

Weather attribute (for a given location and date if possible)

  • Weather
  • Temperature
  • Weather

Usage

Plugins/themes developpers documentation

Blocks & Shortcodes

The plugin comes with several blocks/shortcodes which allows to:

  • [events_list]: display a list of events
  • [events_map]: display a map of events
  • [events_cal]: display a calendar of events
  • [event_details]: display a detail of the current event
  • [event_term]: display the date range of a given term based on all events it contains

[events_list]

Query parameters

  • nb=5 (number of post, -1 is all, default: 5)
  • future=1 (boolean, retrieve, or not, events in the future, default = 1)
  • past=0 (boolean, retrieve, or not, events in the past, default = 0)
  • cat=” (string, select posts only from the selected category, default=null, for all categories)
  • tag=” (string, select posts only from the selected tag, default=null, for all tags)
  • tax_name=” (string, custom taxonomy name)
  • tax_term=” (string, the term for above taxonomy)
  • geo=0 (boolean, retreives or not, only events which have geolocation informations, default=0)
  • order=”ASC” (string, can be “ASC” or “DESC”)
  • orderby=”meta_value” (string, if set to “meta_value” events are sorted by event date, possible values are native posts fields: “post_title”,”post_date” etc…)

Display parameters

  • thumbnail=” (Bool, default:false, used to display posts thumbnails)
  • thumbnail_size=” (String, default:”thmbnail”, can be set to any existing size: “medium”,”large”,”full” etc…)
  • excerpt=” (Bool, default:false, used to display posts excerpts)
  • style=” (String, add some inline CSS to the list wrapper)
  • type=”div” (string, possible values are: div, ul, ol default=div)
  • title=” (string, hidden if no events is found)
  • before_title='<h3>’ (string, default <h3>)
  • after_title='</h3>’ (string, default </h3>)
  • container_schema=” (string html schema to display list)
  • item_schema=” (string html schema to display item)

example:

-- wp:eventpost/list {"nb":10,"future":true,"past":true,"thumbnail":false,"excerpt":false,"pages":true} /-->

[events_list future=1 past=1 cat="actuality" nb=10]

container_schema default value:

>

<%type% class=”event_loop %id% %class%” id=”%listid%” style=”%style%” %attributes%>

%list%

</%type%>

item_schema default value:

>

<%child% class=”event_item %class%” data-color=”%color%”>

<a href=”%event_link%”>

%event_thumbnail%

<h5>%event_title%</h5>

</a>

%event_date%

%event_cat%

%event_location%

%event_excerpt%

</%child%>

[events_map]

  • nb=5 (number of post, -1 is all, default: 5)
  • future=1 (boolean, retreive, or not, events in the future, default = 1)
  • past=0 (boolean, retreive, or not, events in the past, default = 0)
  • cat=” (string, select posts only from the selected category, default=null, for all categories)
  • tag=” (string, select posts only from the selected tag, default=null, for all tags)
  • tax_name=” (string, custom taxonomy name)
  • tax_term=” (string, the term for above taxonomy)
  • title=” (string, default)
  • zoom=” (number or empty, default, means fit to points)
  • before_title='<h3>’; (string, default <h3>)
  • after_title='</h3>’ *(string, default </h3>)**
  • thumbnail=” * (Bool, default:false, used to display posts thumbnails)*
  • excerpt=” (Bool, default:false, used to display posts excerpts)
  • list=” (String (“false”, “above”, “below”, “right”, “left”) default: “false”, Display a list of posts)

example:

-- wp:eventpost/map {"nb":-1,"future":true,"past":true,"tile":"toner","list":"below","map_position":false,"disable_mousewheelzoom":true} /-->

[events_map future=1 past=1 cat="actuality" nb="-1"]

[events_cal]

  • cat=” (string, select posts only from the selected category, default=null, for all categories)
  • date=” (string, date for a month. Absolutly: 2013-9 or relatively: -1 month, default is empty, current month)
  • datepicker=1 (boolean, displays or not a date picker)
  • mondayfirst=0 (boolean, weeks start on monday, default is 0 sunday)
  • display_title=0 (boolean, displays or not events title under the day number)
  • tax_name=” (string, custom taxonomy name)
  • tax_term=” (string, the term for above taxonomy)

example:

-- wp:eventpost/calendar {"date":"-2 months","color":true,"display_title":true,"mondayfirst":"1","choose":false} /-->

[events_cal cat="actuality" date="-2 months" mondayfirst=1 display_title=1]

[event_details]

-

attribute string (date, start, end, address, location). The default value is NULL and displays the full event bar

[event_details attribute=”address”]

Hooks

Filters

  • eventpost_add_custom_box_position
  • event_post_class_calendar_link
  • eventpost_columns_head
  • eventpost_contentbar
  • eventpost_default_list_shema
  • eventpost_get
  • eventpost_get_items
  • eventpost_get_post_types
  • eventpost_get_single
  • eventpost_getsettings
  • eventpost_item_scheme_entities
  • eventpost_item_scheme_values
  • eventpost_list_shema
  • eventpost_listevents
  • eventpost_maps
  • eventpost_multisite_get
  • eventpost_multisite_blogids
  • eventpost_params
  • eventpost_printdate
  • eventpost_printlocation
  • eventpost_bulk_edit_fields
  • eventpost_quick_edit_fields
  • eventpost_retreive
  • event-post-rich-result
  • eventpost_shortcode_slug

Actions

  • evenpost_init
  • eventpost_add_custom_box
  • eventpost_custom_box_date
  • eventpost_custom_box_loc
  • after_eventpost_generator
  • eventpost_getsettings
  • eventpost_settings_form
  • eventpost_after_settings_form
WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • booking
  • calendar
  • events
  • geolocation
  • map
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested with WP 7.1

Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 6.3 · PHP not listed
Update activity8 Oct 202625d ago

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Version6.1.16.1.2
WordPress compatibility7.0.47.1.3
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