Ben LayerWP

FLEXIBLE EVENT TEMPLATES WITH 44 DATA TYPES One of the reasons people use WordPress is for its flexibility. If people just wanted a generic events calendar, they could simply use EventBrite or Luma. The reason they use WordPress is so that they can create event templates that fit their branding and display their creativity. When we built EventKoi, we knew flexibility had to be at the forefront. In the past year, we’ve created more and more event data that can be used in the block editor, as shortcodes and as dynamic tags in Elementor, Bricks, Divi, and Beaver Builder. I believe this is one of the key differentiators we have as a plugin. Over the past few months, we’ve further split up key pieces of data like tickets, location and time and date. We now have 44 dynamic tags total. This excludes custom field tags, since that depends on the number of custom fields created. That count spans: Date/time (11): date, date ISO, day, day name, month, month short, year, time, datetime, datetime with summary, timezone Location (7): full location, name, address, unit, city, state, post code Tickets/sales (10): count, price from, price to, price range, summary, sales start, sales end, sold out, low stock, RSVP/tickets combined RSVP (4): capacity, going, remaining, full Capacity (3): capacity, capacity sold, capacity remaining Other (9): title, details, image, calendar, URL, Google Map, event instance datetime, rule summary That means a compact event list can show just the city (“Austin, TX”) while the full event page shows the complete address, without you having to manually format or trim anything. It also means page builder templates can pull “just the venue name” for a heading and “just the address” for a separate map link, instead of showing one long clump of text everywhere. It also means that instead of being stuck with a full date and time string every time, you can now show just the day of the week on a card (“Saturday”), just the month in a calendar-style layout (“JUN”), or build a custom date badge that looks nothing like the default WordPress date format. Unlike other plugins which give you a pre-designed widget, with EventKoi, the design customisations are truly limitless.

I've said this before many, many times. Dynamic data, saves so much time building a website. Custom fields or any custom field/post plugin can make a huge difference. As long as it's married to a an element to display for visitors it's gold dust. Problem is. Lots of garden variety folk don't know this, or don't want to learn. Lots of good people on the web try to explain this, but it needs explaining like they're 5. I get it. A few years ago I'd have said WTF? Now, as an average Joe, it makes sense.