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.
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?
Yes, but of course that depends what you are expecting. Our plugin works perfectly fine with their pro version for a very simple reason: most of the pro features of their plugin have to do with event management. For example, the pro version has features like syncing with Facebook or Google Calendar, RSVP and tickets, community events, etc. These pro features do not affect the actual event data that our modules display (title, image, date, time, etc.).
The original intent of our plugin was to make it easy to display events in Divi, not to make it work with every feature of their plugin. But we do continue to add features that users request.
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 that by viewing the Events Page Module Features & Settings or by viewing our video about How To Use The Events Page Module. 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.
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.
We have been told that recurring events show perfeclty fine in our Events Feed module and Events Carousel module. If you have information on that please send me an email. We are hoping to have this all finalized in the upcoming 2.1 update to ensure they work in all modules.
Does the plugin have translation support?
Yes, it does! Just 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 plugin is based on The Events Calendar, some things will be dependant on what translation support they offer.
Beyond that, yes all the elements of our modules are fully translatable as far as we know. If you notice any issues please let us know.
What does “Only Show Past Events” mean?
This toggle found in the Content tab of the Feed Module turns on or off past events. You can use this either to show upcoming events, or to show an archive of past events. So we often recommend using this module (with the toggle turned off) for upcoming events, and then having another module, perhaps on another page, to show the archive of past events with the toggle turned on.
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.”
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.