The Events Calendar is one of the most popular WordPress plugins. It comes with its own settings panel that provides the essential tools and options to create and manage events.
While The Events Calendar’s default settings and behaviours work well, but they do not always fit your website’s needs.
For example, you may want to add shortcuts to the settings panel for easy navigation, or you may wish to change the default labels, such as venue to “location”, to better match your website requirements.
Fortunately, there are extensions available that let you change these default behaviours. The Admin Bar Plus adds shortcuts for the Events settings, and Relabeler helps you change the default labels of event elements.
In this blog, we’ll discuss about these two extensions and learn how they can help you simplify navigation and customize The Events Calendar’s default labels.
The Admin Bar Plus
Admin Bar Plus is a powerful extension for The Events Calendar that adds shortcuts to the individual event settings.
It creates direct access from the WordPress admin bar and the Events menu, so you can open specific settings pages without navigating through multiple menus.
For example, if you want to access the Display settings;
- Without extension: WordPress Dashboard > Events > Settings > Display.
- With extension: Direct access to Display settings from the WordPress admin bar and Events menu.
Thus, this extension shortens the navigation path to individual event settings, making it quicker and easier to find the options you need to manage your events.
Another useful feature is that Admin Bar Plus works across The Events Calendar family of plugins and addons. So, you can use the same extension to create shortcuts for the settings of the different plugins you have installed.
Follow the steps below to add shortcuts for The Events Calendar settings.
Add shortcuts with The Admin Bar Plus
To add shortcuts, you need to install and activate the latest version of the following plugins on your WordPress site:
After installing and activating the extension, you don’t need to configure anything. Admin Bar Plus automatically adds the available settings links to the WordPress sidebar and admin bar.
Here is how your new Events menu will appear after installing and activating the extension:
You can easily navigate to the individual settings such as General, Display, Licenses, Integrations, and Imports directly from the Events menu and admin bar.
Relabeler
The Relabeler extension for The Events Calendar lets you customize the labels for Events, Venues, and Organizers with the labels of your choice. You can replace these default labels with terms that match your website requirements.
For example, you have a website that hosts classes and want to use “Class” instead of “Event,” or a community website may want to use “Location” instead of “Venue.”
The Relabeler extension customizes these labels without changing the functionality of The Events Calendar, thus giving you more control over how your event content is displayed.
Follow the steps below to customize the default labels.
Customizing the Labels With Relabeler
You need to install and activate the following plugins to change the default labels:
Once the extension is activated, follow the steps below to configure its settings from your WordPress dashboard:
- From your WordPress Dashboard, navigate to Events > Settings > Display.
- A new subtab, “Labels”, will be added under the display area.
- Here you will find labels for Events, Venues, and Organizers in four variations.
- Singular (i.e. “Event”)
- Lowercase singular (i.e. “event”)
- Plural (i.e. “Events”)
- Lowercase plural (i.e. “events”)
- Next, to change the label for Event, enter your preferred terms in all four label fields.
- Follow the same process to customize the default labels for Venue and Organizer.
- Once you have added the new labels, click on Save Changes.
Note: After changing the labels, resave your permalinks under WordPress > Settings > Permalinks. It helps WordPress recognize and apply updated labels or URL-related settings correctly and prevents pages from showing 404 errors or incorrect URLs.
Conclusion
The Events Calendar plugin is designed to provide flexibility to its users, but these extensions help you customize your website even further.
If you want to save time and make navigation easier, consider using the Admin Bar Plus extension to add quick shortcuts to your Events settings.
Also, if you wish to customize the default labels for Events, Venues, and Organizers and add terms that better match your website’s content, the Relabeler extension is a great option.
Together, these extensions give you more control over event management, making it easier to manage your settings and create a more personalized event website.
