Our Plugin vs Their Plugin?

We get a lot of questions from people that are confused about the relationship of our Divi Events Calendar plugin to The Events Calendar plugin. We often get questions about the pro version, tickets, payments, bulk import, bulk import, addons, etc. but we have to remind people that we are not The Events Calendar, and we are not affiliated with them.

If you are interested in learning more about their Pro features, please click here to see all the features (affiliate link).

Both our Divi Events Calendar and The Events Calendar go hand-in-hand together. The Events Calendar needs to be installed first for our Divi Events Calendar to work. This is because they work together and our plugin relies on theirs.

The Events Calendar is the core of the actual event info and management. Their plugin handles anything related to the events themselves, including anything related to tickets, payments, or other addons that they offer. Our Divi Events Calendar plugin adds new custom Divi event modules to the Divi Builder.

Our plugin modules pull in the data for the events and gives you the familiar Divi module interface with all our custom settings and features you need to display and style events in any Divi Builder layout.

Without our plugin, there is no way to use The Events Calendar in Divi. In fact, they don’t even offer shortcodes in their free version, so if you use Divi, our plugin is the only solution, and it’s a good one!

Keep in mind our modules are totally separate from anything their pro version has to display events. On any given page you can either use their display, or our modules. You can’t pick and choose which parts of their plugin and which parts of our modules you want on the same page.

Is this compatible with the Events Calendar PRO?

Can I customize the single event pages?

Yes, we are super excited to offer the first ever single event page builder for Divi and The Events Calendar. We introduced a new module specifically for this in our 2.0 update. This new module called Events Page has all the features you need to display the elements of the single event pages in a Divi Theme Builder template. You can learn more about this in our Events Page Module documentation. You may also be interested in a few other single event page design options.

How To Use Events Tickets Or Other Pro Addons On Single Event Pages?

The answer to this question and many like it is simple – shortcodes! This actually has nothing to do with our plugin, since you would need to use shortcodes in the Divi Theme Builder template anyhow. So head over to the The Events Calendar Pro Shortcodes and find what you need and place them anywhere you want in the single events page. You can also check out our tutorial about How To Add Shortcodes In Divi.

Does the plugin have translation support?

Yes, it does! Our modules translate any text according to the Site Language that you set inside WordPress General Settings. But mostly this question does not relate to our plugin. Please keep a few things in mind when you ask that question:

1. Since our modules use Divi, anything in the modules like the Divi settings will all translate according to how Divi has it set up.

2. Since our modules are based on The Events Calendar, most things are dynamic and are dependant on what translation support they provide.

Beyond that, yes all the elements of our modules are fully automatically translatable as far as we know. But there are very few items in our modules that require translation. The only things are:

• Days of the Week in the Events Calendar
• Labels in detail text in any module.

Everything else is dyanmic, menaing it comes for Divi or The Events Calendar and is not relevant to our modules. If you notice any issues or have some corrections for your particular language then please let us know.

Do the modules support recurring events?

This question requires some context to keep in mind with how the events are handled. Recurring events are not available in The Events Calendar free version, only their Pro version. So to start, regardless if we support recurring events, you would need the Pro version of The Events Calendar to use them.

But yes, we have added full support for the Recurring Events feature of The Events Calendar Pro in our Divi Events Calendar 2.1. So now you can simply chooose to show or hide recurring events in the Events Feed module and in the Events Calendar module.

Can I show past and future events at the same time?

You can choose either Future or Past for the event status in the Events Feed mdoule. If you want to show both past and future events on the same page, simply duplicate the module and change the status in each one. One module can be set to Future, and another module can be set to Past. Normally you would probably want to use a separte page to show the archive of past events.

Some people ask about this, but I actually can’t think of any time when you would actually want them all in the same module. It would be very confusing for the visitors. This way you can separate them with a headline, for example. Otherwise, where would they start? Wouldn’t it be confusing to visitors to land on your events page and see an event from 10 years ago for example at the top and have to scroll through possibly hundreds to see the future ones? Just my thoughts, but anyhow, hope this helps!

How does the date and time format work?

The Events Feed module automatically uses the same event date and time format as used by The Events Calendar. By default this is set in WordPress general settings.

If you would like to override the default format, the Events Feed module has settings for both Date Format and Time Format which you can use.

Note that the start and end time in our module works the same as in The Events Calendar. If you only want to show the start time, then set the same date/time for both start time and end time in the event settings.

Note that you should double check the date and time format setin WordPress>Settings>General and the “End of day cutoff” time in The Events Calendar settings. If the end of day cutoff is set wrong, dates will sometimes be off a day depending on their start and end times.

Why us my plugin different than what is shown your video?

The Nature Of Video Documentation

We keep releasing updates, new features, and improvements to this plugin. Because of this, videos become outdated quickly due to the nature of the format. There’s nothing we can do about that except ask you to always check the documentation section of our website here for all the most accurate and up-to-date information about the plugin. 

The Module Names

When we first released this plugin we had only one module which was named “Divi Events Calendar.” When we started adding additional modules, we knew we needed to have a better naming convention.

In some of our older videos you may see the original module. Please note that this original module was  renamed “Events Feed” after we added the calendar view module which is named “Events Calendar.”

Does this work with the Divi Builder PLUGIN, or just the THEME?

Yes, our plugin is compatible with the Divi Builder plugin by Elegant Themes. Howver, this question and answer requires some important context.

Our plugin integrates The Events Calendar with Divi. It does this particaclly by taking advantage of the amazing Divi Them Builder, the feature in Divi that allows you to create templates. So even though our plugin would work fine with only the Divi Builder plugin, it would be severely limited since their plugin does not include the Theme Builder (of course). So you would miss out on things such as setting the main /events/ slug archive page, creating dynamic event category pages, and designing dynamic templates for the single event pages.

So if you just want a simple events feed or calendar on your pages, then yes that would work fine. But for the other things mentioned here, you would need to be using the Divi Theme.

We continually update this page as we receive new questions and notice frequent or common ones. If you have a question, please send us an email.