Events Calendar Plugin
Hey all, can I get input from y'all. My non-profit uses the Events Calendar Plugin for their "events" page. Now, I read that I could potentially create my own "events" landing page and subsequent single "event" templates without the plugin? Is this correct? I'm asking because I have a renewal coming up for the plugin that the non-profit would love to not have to pay to save money.
One more caveat, they also utilize "Events Tickets Plus" to sell their own tickets, which runs off of the Events Calendar Plugin.
Mak . I'd really love to get your take on this as well.
If your non-profit needs the registration and financial transaction features for events, I would stick with a third-party for that... like EventON, or Eventbrite, etc. If all you need is to list events and give the details for each event, that can be done using Posts for each event, Categories for the kind of events, and the loop features to create a tiled Events page that shows all those event posts in cron order. I've done this over and over for many of my clients. You do not need the Events Calendar Plugin.
Randal Birkey Thanks for your input. Yeah, they need the financial transactions features.
Then, unless they are willing to set up a financial gateway on their own website to process online payments (costly and complex), it is easier and better to use the third-party platform that is designed and optimized for that purpose. My clients most often use Eventbrite. Once they set up an event with registration there, I recommend that they create an Event Post on their own website, describe the entire event there, and then link a button to the Eventbrite page for registration. This keeps content about their events on their own domain and adds to their own search engine indexed content.
Here's a non-profit site that handles it the way I am describing. https://stc.ache.org/events
Thank you so much!