I get this question quite often, “What’s the best theme for my WordPress event website?”. However, this is one of the hardest questions to answer because everyone’s tastes are different or they may have particular needs or use cases for their WordPress event website. So we’ve decided to build a list of 3 Great WordPress themes for event websites that were created by Showthemes.
Each Showtheme theme listed below brings packs a great list of features and powerful integrations, such as:
- Works with Woocommerce, Gravity Forms, EventEspresso, TicketTailor, Eventbrite, Etouches
- Perfect for conferences, annual meetings, seminars, workshops, festivals, club nights but also award nights or professional speaker pages
- Manage Speakers, Sessions, Event Tickets easily
- One click demo install: Just one click to install an exact copy of the demo
- Deep Social Integration: Show Latest Tweets, Instagram pics
- No plugins needed all built in the theme
- Show a Video or a Slider on the homepage
- Choose the colors you want and a selection of the most popular Google Fonts
- Create custom pages with the elements you prefer
- Top notch, 24hrs SLA support desk when purchasing a support license
- Built by event professionals
- 100% GPL, but it once, use it on as many sites as you wish
- Comprehensive, step by step tutorials
- Showthemes powers more than 5,000 event websites around the world
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Conference Pro
Conference Pro boasts a modern design in an easy to use, drag and drop set up. Start creating your event right away.
One Click Facebook and Eventbrite Integration
With one click you can easily import your event description, picture, tickets and more from Facebook or Eventbrite. Just one click to show the Eventbrite ticket selector on your site, one click to import RSVPs from attendees on FacebookCore Features
Conference Pro is a clever and tech-savvy, modern and resourceful, wonderfully easy to use and highly responsive WordPress events and conferences website theme. Conference Pro is a professionally developed WordPress website theme designed with a sleek sense of style and a careful attention to detail, while simultaneously gifted with a strong and very cutting edge combination of selected tools and features that greatly expand the reach and capabilities of Conference Pro to effectively bring people together in these modern times, including a sophisticated and seamless Facebook Event Import feature, as well as Eventbrite Importation, made completely intuitive.The most flexible and customizable Event Composer on the market lets you craft all sorts of specificities to your events, maximizing the degree of communication and involvement your audience can achieve with your individual conferences or events of any kind. Webmasters with or without previous coding or developing experience feel right at home with Conference Pro and it is easy to use drag and drop layout customize and expansive shortcode collection. Social media integration is smooth and seamless, with handsome, unique icons and share buttons to viralize your events all the quicker. Conference Pro packs everything you need to successfully host the top events in town.
Powerful Event Composer
Showthemes has developed its own content builder called ‘Event Composer’. The Event Composer lets you quickly drag and drop elements such as Speakers, Social Media, Contact Forms, Media Galleries in one click on one or multiple pages.Conference Pro allows to quickly create the page you want and decide the settings for fonts and colors. This is not based on other plugins, it is all part of the theme.
Mobile First
With events becoming more and more mobile, Conference Pro has been designed with smartphones and tablets in mind. 100% Responsive, Conference Pro is dynamic and offers the best experience regardless of the device. -
Mondree
Mondree allows to quickly create the page you want and decide the settings for fonts and colors. This is not based on other plugins, it is all part of the theme.
Core Features
Mondree is a technologically modern and impressively full-featured, nimble and agile, fast loading efficiently coded, lightweight and flexible, easy to use and wonderfully customizable, mobile-friendly and professionally graphically designed, secure and reliable, dynamic and engaging responsive WordPress multi-purpose event management website theme. Mondree is a creative and powerfully pliable WordPress theme, carefully constructed and painstakingly developed as an all-inclusive website creation toolkit devoted to the task of empowering webmasters from any background or experience level to swiftly and effectively churn out professional quality, fully functional and warmly inviting modern event management websites with extensive, advanced features and functionalities under the hood, in a matter of minutes, without having to so much as write a single line of code.Mondree has a uniquely professional, stylish and very appealing aesthetic design that graphically envelops your audience, making it a perfect theme for handling professional events, conferences and other similar, related endeavors. Mondree includes both handsome demo websites for you to quickly import, add content and hit the road, as well as lavishly designed layouts and template pages brimming with features and tasteful functionality, with powerful features like Countdowns and Schedule Managers, a slew of diverse ticket sales system fully compatible and integrated out of the box, ranging from Tickera to WooCommerce to Gravity and a dozen others readily at your disposal.
Mobile First
With events becoming more and more mobile, Mondree has been designed with smartphones and tablets in mind. 100% Responsive, Mondree is dynamic and offers the best experience regardless of the device. -
OpenEvent
OpenEvent makes managing your event and selling tickets easy. Start building your event now.
Core Features
OpenEvent is a feature-rich, crafty and responsive WordPress event management website theme. OpenEvent is a flexible solution for event managers that need to set up shop online. Fast and reliable, OpenEvent offers a range of advanced event related tools. Plenty of demo websites save you the trouble of working from scratch. With a single click, you get all the pages and modules you need to get going. A powerful front-end editor puts you in charge of layouts and sections, coding-free. OpenEvent’s integrated Schedule features side by side sessions and an easy global view. Single click Facebook and EventBrite importation can speed up your workflow significantly. They also provide you with unique social media integration that drives up traffic overnight. OpenEvent lets you sell tickets any way you want. It’s also compatible with Tickera, WooCommerce, Gravity Forms, and many more plugins. Advanced event features like exciting countdowns and social media displays make your website pop. OpenEvent includes a unique Event Composer for you to build pages and events intuitively. Drag and drop your items, customize your fonts and colors and much more under the hood. Detailed maps powered by Google Maps API let you inform your audience thoroughly.Facebook Import
Easily import event information such as date and time, name, venue, and photos of the event in one click.Eventbrite Import
If you use Eventbrite you can quickly import your ticket price, description, and status. Also easily pull event information such as date, time and venue.Facebook Who is Coming
Just add your Facebook Event Id and easily display RSVPs and pictures of who is attending your event. A great networking booster.
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Conclusion
There are many event themes on the market, so choosing one can be an all too time-consuming task. However, these three theme’s are some of my favorites from Showthemes and they don’t include too much theme lock-in effect. Thanks to this ColorLib post for images and theme descriptions. The descriptions from the Showtheme’s site were lacking.
Aigars Silkalns says
Please provide proper credits as images are taken directly from this article: https://colorlib.com/wp/wordpress-themes-for-conference-and-event/
Seth Shoultes says
Updated with additional credits! Sorry I missed this initially.
Aigars Silkalns says
Awesome! Thank you!