What is the Modern Events Calendar?
The Modern Events Calendar (MEC) is a great plugin for your WordPress site to display events. It has a clean, polished look to it with many customizable options to display events in a neat, orderly fashion. Compared to similar options available, it is relatively easy to use employing set-up wizards to guide you through the process of configuring your calendars and adding events.
Features
- Display your events in a list in posts or pages
- Visitors can sort by categories, or search
- Relatively easy to use with wizards that walk you through the process
- Export events to Google Calendars, or Apple Calendars
- Events can be shared via social media links
Demonstration Video
Video Points of Interest:
| Point of Interest | Time (mm:ss) |
| What is the Modern Events Calendar plugin? | 00:00 |
| What is great about this plugin? | 00:27 |
| What does Modern Events Calendar look like? | 00:41 |
| Adding event categories. | 02:19 |
| Adding an event. | 04:31 |
| Adding event locations. | 05:43 |
| The event organizer. | 06:35 |
| Event description. | 07:19 |
| Featured image. | 07:53 |
| Filtering your list of events. | 10:39 |
| Displaying events on your website. | 11:37 |
| What are short codes. | 11:49 |
| What do short codes look like? | 12:09 |
| How to add a short code. | 12:23 |
| How to customize the Single Event (Event Detail). | 13:13 |
| Excluding/ including expired events. | 13:39 |
| Using Nicepage to add a list of events. | 14:31 |
| NIcepage: Adding a blank block. | 15:19 |
| Nicepage: Moving blocks. | 15:29 |
| Nicepage: Adding the short code element. | 15:53 |
| NIcepage: Formatting an element. | 16:13 |
| Nicepage: Adding a header to a block. | 17:18 |
| Nicepage: Setting margins for an element. | 17:50 |
| Nicepage: How to enter a short code in the short code element. | 18:20 |
| Nicepage: Previewing your page. | 19:06 |
| Displaying events in a post. | 20:16 |
| WordPress: Editing a post. | 20:46 |
| Adding the Modern Events Calendar to a post. | 21:02 |
| WordPress: Previewing a post. | 21:38 |
| Styling the main colour in Modern Events Calendar. | 22:20 |
| Editing the Single Event/ Event Detail in Modern Events Calendar | 37:06 |