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Learn how to create, edit, and categorize individual listings and set up recurring schedules using The Events Calendar plugin for WordPress.

Creating and organizing your individual entries properly ensures that your calendar remains readable and easy for your visitors to browse. Setting up detailed pages allows you to highlight essential information like dates, locations, costs, and organizer details all in one place. When you provide clear and accurate information, you answer your audience’s questions upfront and encourage more people to register or attend your activities.

This collection provides straightforward guides to help you create, edit, and organize your calendar listings. You will learn how to set up single or recurring dates, link specific organizers or venues, and assign clear categories to keep your schedule organized. Use these resources to build a detailed and professional calendar that displays your upcoming activities perfectly.


The Events Calendar Events articles

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Explore the following guides to learn how to create, edit, and manage individual listings and categories on your calendar.

  • Adding Custom Fields to Events

    When creating your events, do you ever find yourself wishing there was a way to add additional information about your event? What about a checkbox to designate age-restricted events? Or a drop-down of “DJs” to select which one will be performing at the event? The ability to add these additional fields is included within our…

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  • Configuring The Events Calendar Settings

    You can access the settings for The Events Calendar and Events Calendar Pro from the WordPress Admin by going to Events → Settings from your WordPress admin bar or sidebar. The settings offer a lot of cool options to get your calendar looking just the way you want it. Let’s review what each of the…

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  • Creating Events

    Once you’ve installed and activated The Events Calendar, you’re going to want to create some events. This is actually really easy. Let’s start in the WordPress dashboard – you should be able to find a menu entry called Events and, if you click on it, you should see the Add New link. Once you’ve found…

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  • Creating Multi-Day Events

    A multi-day event is any event that spans more than one day — an all-day event across multiple dates, or a timed event that starts on one day and ends on another. This article covers how to create multi-day events and how to present them clearly so visitors don’t get confused about when the event…

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  • Creating Recurring Events

    Recurring events are one of the most popular features of Events Calendar Pro. This article covers everything you need: how to create recurring events in both the Classic and Block editors, how to set patterns and exceptions, how to edit a single instance without affecting the rest of the series, how to adjust the recurrence…

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  • Customizing Event Series

    Event Series groups related events under a single landing page. When you want to adjust how that page behaves — or how events within a Series link from the calendar — a small snippet can often get you there. This article collects several of the most common Series customizations. Changing the Calendar View on the…

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  • Getting Started with The Events Calendar

    Just starting out with The Events Calendar and Events Calendar Pro? These steps will help you get set up and ready to rock an awesome calendar. Follow the links for detailed tutorials. Install the Plugin You can download The Events Calendar for free from the WordPress plugin directory. If you have purchased a license for…

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  • How to Use Event Series

    As of Events Calendar Pro version 6.0, we’ve added a new way to manage events called Series. Event Series can be used to display and group any combination of single and recurring events. Series differs from recurring events because, with recurring events, all events must contain the same event title, description, venue, and organizer. With…

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