WordPress Native Events

There is no native events capability in WordPress, but there are some things that you can do straight out of the box to get your events to feature as such.

The main thing is publish posts as usual and take care to categorise them as “Events” and then filter the category either by a menu link or using a latest posts block such as below:-

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To make your event pop out create a uniform format using the block editor. Below we used a ready made block pattern. You can copy that block for each new event inside a new post.

To get smarter still you can create sub categories inside the main Events category and either display all of them or a selected sub category. One could even create a secondary navigation menu with all the events and subcategories to appear in a special page, in a sidebar or footer.

To make sure upcoming events don’t fall out of view you would also want to feature them using a special “Featured” or “Upcoming” category or perhaps if using the main blog page, use the sticky post attribute.

All the above with no additional plugin complexity.

If you run EventBrite events, link to them with a button:

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