September 9th in Premium Themes by Wordpress Jedi . Whether you live in a very large city or a fairly small town, there is a good chance there are lots of events going on in your area on a daily or monthly basis. Creating an event directory site for your neighborhood or small town can not only provide a lot of value to the residents, it can be a solid business for you. You can always partner up with businesses in your area to keep your community informed of everything going on. Thanks to Event Theme for WordPress, you can start your own event directory portal with WordPress.
Events Theme has a clean and attractive layout. It has a flexible home-page that can be easily customized. Events can be added to your website pretty easily. Webmasters can monetize their event site by charging for featured events. This theme’s tabbed layout makes it easy for your visitors to keep up with future and past events. They can also search through your events by category, zip code, and more. [click to continue…]
Continue Reading July 30th in Wordpress Tips, WP Solutions by Wordpress Jedi . Some of us make a living out of attending all kinds of events. Artists, business professionals, speakers, and consultants all have to keep track of their bookings and events from time to time. Thanks to WordPress themes and plugins, you can handle these on your website easily. Here are 10 ways to do just that:
Themes for Appointments & Events:
These themes let you display your events on your site and allow your visitors to book appointments with your business.
Appointment for WordPress: a versatile theme that lets your visitors book their appointments with your business. It supports payments too.
Event for WordPress: a simple and clean theme to manage events on your website. You can use it to tell your visitors about your upcoming events.
Diarise: shows your past and future events on your site. It allows your visitors to add events to their calendars (or book their spots) fast.
Booking & Events Plugins:
These plugins let webmasters handle bookings and manage events without having to make major changes to their theme.
Booking Manager: a superb plugin for handling all your bookings. Takes advantage of jQuery and AJAX to provide you with a dynamic experience. The pro version supports exporting to CSV, advanced filters, and much more.
RSVP Plugin: a useful plugin for those of you who will be managing events. It lets you get a better sense of who will be attending your events.
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Continue Reading December 30th in WordPress Themes, Wordpress Tips by Wordpress Jedi . In the past few months, many of our readers have written to us wondering how they can start an event management website with WordPress. Whether you want to display your own company’s events or create an event directory for your city, there are WordPress themes and plugins available that can get the job done fast. These 4 events WordPress themes and plugins can help:
Events: one of the best events themes that I have tested for WordPress. It looks quite sleek and lets you create an event directory or manage your business’ events using WordPress. It has 4 color schemes and supports payments.
Event Theme: transforms your blog into an events portal. It comes with 5 color schemes and has a blog template too. Provides you with a lot of bang for your buck.
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Continue Reading October 29th in Premium Plug-ins by Wordpress Jedi . Those of you who happen to be a part of an organization/band/entity that throws events from time to time have probably looked for event management solutions for your website in the past. If you happen to be using WordPress to run your website, you don’t have to look further than Events Calendar Pro. It’s a powerful premium plugin that is designed specifically for bands, non-profit organizations, and businesses to let them manage their events right on their blogs.
Events Calendar Pro makes it easy to share your upcoming events with the world in your blog posts. Adding and modifying your events could not be any easier (from your post page). As you can see in the above screen-shot, the plugin comes integrated with Google Maps, so you can display your posts in the most sophisticated way possible on your website. Your visitors can easily find their way to specific event details on your website. They can always use your calendar view to get a sense of what you have in store for them.
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Continue Reading May 20th in Premium Themes, Themes for Businesses by Wordpress Jedi . Whether you are a business owner looking to promote your events or an event planner, chances are you have used online websites such as Facebook to push your events. But wouldn’t it be nice if there was an easy way for you to build a CMS around your events and display your events to the world. That’s what Diarise WordPress Theme is all about. It’s an innovative business theme for WordPress that makes it easy for you to promote you latest events to your visitors and give them an easy way to sign up and add your events to their calendars.
Diarise is quite a unique theme that allows businesses and event management companies to promote their events on their mini sites and give visitors an easy way to stay in touch with those events. The theme comes with an attractive calendar that your visitors can go through and find the dates for your events. As you can see in the above image, events that you displaying on your website have their date darkened on your calendar. So your visitors will have an easy time finding your next event. They can always use the next event button just in case they do not want to mess with your calendar. Visitors can add the events on your site to Outlook, iCal, and Google Calendar.
Diarise for WordPress is quite flexible as well. For starters, it comes with 8 color schemes to give you flexibility with your design and your site’s look and feel. You also have 9 custom widgets that you can choose from to bring more features to your website. Twitter, ads, and custom widgets are included with this theme. [click to continue…]
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