Transform the way your visitors interact with your event calendar by providing a powerful, intuitive search and filtering experience. The EventOn Filters Plus add-on is designed for site owners who manage large volumes of events and want to ensure their audience can find exactly what they are looking for in seconds. By moving beyond basic calendar views, this add-on turns your event page into a sophisticated, searchable database, significantly improving user engagement and reducing the friction that prevents potential attendees from discovering your events.
Key Features
- Advanced Filtering Options: Empower users to sort events based on custom taxonomies, location, event type, or date ranges, allowing for highly specific search results.
- AJAX-Powered Search: Deliver a seamless browsing experience with instant search results that update the calendar view without requiring a page reload.
- Customizable Filter Layouts: Choose how your filters appear on the front end, ensuring they match your website’s design language and provide a clean, professional interface.
- Multi-Select Capability: Allow users to apply multiple filters simultaneously, such as filtering by both a specific category and a location, to narrow down results with precision.
- Responsive Design: Ensure that your filtering interface functions perfectly on mobile devices, tablets, and desktops, maintaining a consistent experience for all users.
- Easy Integration: Designed specifically for the core EventOn plugin, this add-on integrates directly into your existing calendar setup without requiring complex coding or configuration.
- Search History and Persistence: Help users keep track of their search criteria, making it easier to refine their results as they explore your event offerings.
Use Cases / Who It’s For
The EventOn Filters Plus add-on is an essential tool for any organization that manages a complex or high-frequency event schedule. If you are a community center, university, or ticketing platform, your users likely struggle to sift through dozens or hundreds of events to find the ones relevant to their interests. By implementing these advanced filters, you provide a service that respects your users’ time.
This add-on is particularly valuable for businesses that rely on specific event attributes, such as workshops, webinars, or recurring classes. For example, a gym or fitness studio can allow members to filter classes by instructor, intensity level, or time of day. Similarly, a local tourism board can enable visitors to filter events by neighborhood, event category, or family-friendliness. By making your calendar searchable, you are not just organizing data; you are actively increasing the likelihood of event registration and attendance.
Setup / How It Works
- Install and Activate: After purchasing, download the add-on zip file and upload it to your WordPress site via the Plugins menu, then activate it alongside the core EventOn plugin.
- Configure Settings: Navigate to the EventOn settings panel where a new tab for Filters Plus will appear. Here, you can select which taxonomies and event data points you wish to make filterable.
- Define Filter Behavior: Customize how the filters behave, including whether they should appear as dropdowns, checkboxes, or buttons, and set the default search parameters.
- Embed the Calendar: Use the standard EventOn shortcode generator or block editor to place your calendar on any page. The filters will automatically appear based on your configuration settings.
- Test the Experience: Preview your calendar on the front end to ensure the filters are intuitively placed and that the AJAX results load correctly according to your selected criteria.