The Events Calendar Event Schedule Manager
Organizing a multi-session schedule for conferences, summits, or busy training days requires an easy way to map out complex timetables. Utilizing the Event Schedule Manager plugin helps you coordinate separate time slots, highlight featured panels, and showcase important participants without confusing your audience. When you structure your daily agenda efficiently, you make it simple for attendees to see what is happening next and choose the tracks that fit their interests.
This collection provides step-by-step guides to help you configure your calendar grids and manage complex timelines. You will learn how to set up core options, define individual sessions, and embed your finished timetable onto your website using shortcodes or editor blocks. Use these resources to build a detailed and professional itinerary that keeps your attendees informed throughout your entire schedule.
The Events Calendar Event Schedule Manager articles
Learn how to install, register, and format your conference timetables with the following guides.
Creating Sessions in Event Schedule Manager
Read more: Creating Sessions in Event Schedule ManagerSessions are the building blocks of your event schedule, as demonstrated in the [New User Primer]. Creating Sessions You can create sessions in both the Classic and Block Editor as seen below. The following are the Essential fields to creating a Session. Displaying Sessions in context (aka schedule) Once you created all of the sessions…
Creating Speakers in Event Schedule Manager
Read more: Creating Speakers in Event Schedule ManagerTyped-in vs Custom Post Type (CPT) As seen in the Creating Sessions article, speakers can be typed in on a per-event basis. What’s the difference? A Typed speaker name is just how it sounds. The Speakers Custom Post Type is reusable and provides flexibility. Creating Speakers You can create Speakers in the Classic and Block…
Creating Sponsors in Event Schedule Manager
Read more: Creating Sponsors in Event Schedule ManagerObviously, not all events have or need sponsors. But if your events or sessions have sponsors, you will love this feature. Creating Sponsors Sponsors can be created in the Classic and Block editor. The essential fields for creating a Sponsor are as follows. Sponsor levels are a taxonomy for more complex events where several sponsors…
Getting Started with Event Schedule Manager
Read more: Getting Started with Event Schedule ManagerJust starting out with Event Schedule Manager? These steps will help you get set up and ready to rock an awesome calendar. Follow the links for detailed tutorials. Install the Plugin If you have purchased a license for Event Schedule Manager, you’ll find the download in your account on the Downloads & Licenses screen. Your…
How to Transfer Event Schedule Manager Data to Another Site
Read more: How to Transfer Event Schedule Manager Data to Another SiteIn this article, we are going to talk about how we can export the existing data in Event Schedule Manager and import it to another site without having to recreate Speakers, Sponsors, Sessions, etc. from scratch. Assume that we would like to import data from site A to B. Site A Requirements: Site B Requirements:…
Template Overrides for Event Schedule Manager
Read more: Template Overrides for Event Schedule ManagerCreating template overrides in Event Schedule Manager (ESM) might be not as straightforward, but it’s not rocket science either. Let’s see. ESM has templates for three of its post types: sessions, speakers, and sponsors. The respective template files can be found in the event-schedule-manager/templates/ folder. Although the plugin does not include a built-in method for…
Using Event Schedule Manager Shortcodes
Read more: Using Event Schedule Manager ShortcodesSchedule Shortcode [tec_schedule] Example shortcode: [tec_schedule tracks=”all” color_scheme=”light” session_link”none”] This would output a schedule with all tracks, using a light color scheme, and session titles not being linked. Sessions Shortcode For the sessions post type. Speakers Shortcode Example shortcode: [tec_speakers image_size=”250″ order=”asc” speaker_link=”permalink”] This would output a list of speakers with a speaker image size…