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Learn how to use various widgets to display lists of upcoming events and countdowns to future events in your website’s sidebar and footer.

Learn about the different event widgets that you have available to you for your sidebar and footer. These widgets can display information about upcoming events on your website, display a list of events at a certain location, or display a countdown to a certain event or your next event.

• From your dashboard, hover over Appearance then click on Widgets.
• Events Featured Venue widget
  • In the classic widget editor, click and drag the widget into a widget area or click on it and select which widget area you’d like it to go. (In the new block editor, you’ll find this as a Legacy Widget).
  • Add a title if you want, something like Upcoming Events or Events @ [name of your location]
  • Select the venue or location from any of the saved locations you have in your event system.
  • Choose how many events to show. Typically in the sidebar or footer, 3-5 is a good range.
  • Uncheck the option to hide this widget if there are no upcoming events – this is so that the events widget doesn’t come and go from your website
  • Uncheck generate JSON data if it’s checked
  • Save
• Event Countdown widget
  • In the classic widget editor, click and drag the widget into a widget area or click on it and select which widget area you’d like it to go. (In the new block editor, you’ll find this as a Legacy Widget).
  • Set a title if you’d like.
  • Select what type of event you would like to countdown to. It can be a single event that you specify, or it can be the next event that is scheduled to occur, or it could be a featured event (the “featured” checkbox must be checked on the event for the latter to work).
  • Adjust the text to display once the countdown ends.
  • Enable or disable the showing of how many seconds are left in that countdown.
  • Disable the generate JSON.
  • Save
• Event List widget
  • In the classic widget editor, click and drag the widget into a widget area or click on it and select which widget area you’d like it to go. (In the new block editor, you’ll find this as a Legacy Widget).
  • Set a title if you’d like.
  • Select the number of events to display.
  • Choose what information is displayed with each event. Typically you don’t need to show the country or the state, but maybe a street and city name.
  • Filter the events that will be displayed by selecting a category.
  • Uncheck generate JSON data.
  • Save