Event Details Page

Eventer let your website users to see the full details about the event, organiser and ticket on a separate page for each event. This page consists of 4 different sections to show the relevant information i.e.

Event Meta
Event Tickets
Event Share
Event Save

Once you create a new event using the Eventer plugin, it will use your active theme’s single page template(usually used to display blog posts) for the event details layout. A default layout looks like the below image:

Custom Event posts template:

With Code:

You may notice that the event title & featured image of your event is not displaying on the event details page. The featured image rely on your active theme’s single post template, some themes displays the title & featured image along with other details like ‘Published Date’, ‘Author’ etc. just before the post content. But there are many themes which do not add this information and to add show at least your event title and featured image on the details page you must create a custom single template single-eventer.php’ and put it into your theme’s folder or preferably into the child theme folder. I am providing a basic example of single-eventer.php below:

Before you continue, we recommend that you make sure you are using a child theme so as not to mess up your current theme and have a default theme to go back to.

<?php
/**
 * The template for displaying all single eventer posts
 */
 
get_header(); ?>
 
        <?php
        // Start the loop.
        while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();

            echo '<h1>'.get_the_title().'</h1>';
            the_post_thumbnail('full');
            the_content();
 
 
        // End the loop.
        endwhile;
        ?>
 
<?php get_footer(); ?>

The best option is to create a copy of your theme’s single.php template and name it as ‘single-eventer.php’ code to display the title and featured image.

With page builders:

Many new age page builder now have the ability to create several templates using the easy drag-and-drop method. This comes handy when you are using one of those page builder like Elementor then it is easier for you to create a custom template to show your event posts. Here’s a list of shortcodes which can be used to display the different sections of the event details:

Event details like Event’s start and end date, time, organiser, category, venue:

[eventer_metas]

Ticket list, booking calendar, Time slots and organiser contact block:

[eventer_tickets]

Event sharing social icons:

[eventer_social_share]

Options to save event iCal file, save event to Google, Yahoo calendars:

[eventer_save_events]

Above shortcodes can be used in your page builder’s shortcode widget to add the respective section anywhere you want.

Gutenberg/Block based themes

When using Gutenberg theme, which needs new template for new post types. You need to create a new template in the site editor available at Appearance => Editor for ‘Single: Eventer’

See doc here https://support.imithemes.com/docs/eventer/events/event-details-page/ which provides detail about the shortcodes to show different parts of the event details page.

You need to select ‘Templates’ in the left sidebar. On the next page click ‘Add New Template’ and choose ‘Single – Eventer’ for the output. Now in the editor you can create layout of your event details page with using the shortcodes available in this doc https://support.imithemes.com/docs/eventer/eventer-single-template/

Event Details Page Settings:

All the settings for the details page of event posts can be found at your WP Dashboard => Eventer => Settings => General

Booking Calendar

Enabling this option will show a button in the booking section where users can select the date of the event(in case of recurring events) for which they want to book the tickets for. If this option is disabled then for recurring events the booking date will be the next instance of the event.

Calendar Type

You can show a dropdown select field in place of booking calendar. This select fields helps in case you have recurring event in different months so that user registering the event doesn’t have to search the available booking dates in the full calendar view.

Organizer Link

By default organizer’s website URL(if entered) is displayed on the event’s meta section and it opens in the same browser window but this options allows the link to be opened in a new window.

Registrants Fields

This options when enabled will show 2 new fields in the booking form where user can input name & email of each registrant in case of booking multiple tickets at once.

Mandatory Registrants

This option will remove the checkbox(Add individual registrant details) as visible in the above image. This makes it mandatory for the user to add details of each registrants in the booking form

Mandatory Time Slots

Eventer allows you to add multiple time slots for an event, this comes handy when you have separate tickets for each session in a day. The time slot selection can be optional for the users booking the tickets but if you need user to must select a time slot for booking then change this option. This applies to all the events of your website, however you have option make it optional per event basis.

Coupon Field

Eventer comes with a in built coupons functionality which you can enable from here. Users can enter the coupon code(if provided by the admin) to get a discount. This field appears in the just before the payment options in the booking form.

Social sharing buttons

When using the default event details layout the social sharing options are always visible however sometimes you want to use your own more functional social sharing options. In this case you can disable the default social sharing links.

Save event option

When using the default event details layout the save event button is always visible on the event details page but you can disable it using this option.

Event image size(Legacy)

Initial few versions of the Eventer plugin used to come with built in loop function for the single event details page which later was replaced with the new function which works without a single-eventer.php template. This field let the users(using that old version) to enter the featured image dimensions. This options not available now and this field will have no effect on the details page.

Maximum Tickets

This is the limit of booking per order which you can apply for all the events. For example: if you enter ’10’ here, then your website users won’t be able to add and book more than 10 event tickets in a single order. This applies to a total tickets number irrespective of different ticket types.

Minimum Default Ticket

By default the quantity field for each ticket type show ‘0’ but you can make it load with minimum quantity like ‘1’. All the tickets of all events in your website will follow this option.

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