Espresso Themes has just launched two new child themes for Event Espresso 4, bringing the total to four WordPress Child Themes in one month. These same child themes have been in use on Event Smart for over two years and have become very popular amongst event organizers on the platform. However, the theme needed a few minor features added, such as theme updates and code optimizations.
“What’s special about these child themes?”, You are probably asking yourself. Well, these child themes are specially optimized for Event Espresso 4 to show the event dates, instead of the post dates and to show event categories and event archives with the event-related titles and on-page optimizations.
Child Themes Released in October
Here’s the full list of child themes that were launched by Espresso Themes in October.
Baskerville Child Theme for Event Espresso 4
Baskerville is a beautiful, responsive and retina-ready masonry theme for hoarders. It’s the perfect way to showcase your posts, videos, images, and galleries, and share your favorite quotes and links. Features responsive design, retina-ready assets, full-width header image, support for all post formats, custom logo upload, custom widgets (video, Flickr, and Dribbble), four-page templates (including a contributors template), editor styling, like functionality via the ZillaLikes plugin and translation-ready code.
Examples of Baskerville in Action:
Radcliffe Child Theme for Event Espresso 4
A clean, creative and light retina ready responsive blogging theme supporting parallax header image. Radcliffe integrates a primary color option, custom background, custom CSS and few other features through WordPress customizer.
Examples of Radcliffe in Action:
Radiate Child Theme for Event Espresso 4
A theme for Event Organizers who want their events to take center stage. Radcliffe features responsive design, retina-ready assets, full-width header images, beautiful design and typography, support for custom logo, support for custom accent color, three widget areas, editor style and translation-ready code.
Examples of Radiate in Action:
Themify Base Child Theme for Event Espresso 4
Themify Base is a simple, minimal responsive theme which comes with many layout and customization options. It comes with five extra skins, but you can customize every element of the WordPress theme with live preview – site logo image, navigation menu, background, color, font selection with over 600+ Google Fonts, post styling, layout containers, etc.
Examples of Themify Base in Action:
About Espresso Themes
Following the call for WordPress event theme developers, Espresso Themes was founded in October 2017 by the team at Event Smart to provide users of their WordPress event ticketing plugin, Event Espresso, with a set of beautiful looking WordPress child themes. The child themes provided here are based on a selection of original WordPress Themes, which Event Smart users currently have access to, on the Event Espresso and WordPress powered platform. Seeing as how the team behind Event Smart uses Event Espresso to power its system, they set out to provide Event Espresso customers with access to these same excellent child themes because they want their users to have the best possible experience when using their event plugin.
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About Event Smart
Powered by Event Espresso and WordPress, Event Smart is a free event registration and ticketing service, which allows event organizers the flexibility of having their own event website on the cloud. Staying true the foundations of their event plugin for WordPress, the team behind Event Smart doesn’t believe in charging for selling tickets on their platform. Event organizers on the Event Smart Software as a Service platform only pay for the features they need or want, rather than paying for everything they don’t need.
About Event Espresso
Originally developed and launched in 2009 on WordPress.org, Event Espresso is listed as one of the top Event Calendar and Ticketing plugins for WordPress. Just like WordPress, Event Espresso is an open source solution for event registration and ticketing, which now powers upwards of 70,000 event ticketing websites. So, if you are an event manager using the WordPress platform, you should know that Event Espresso is capable of powering all of the event registration and ticketing aspects of your WordPress event website.
Summary
It’s nice to see new child themes on the market for Event Espresso, as I think it will help give developers an idea of what’s possible with Event Espresso, as well as give Event Espresso users access to themes that are optimized for displaying events, without having to hack apart files or struggle with customizing themes to remove extraneous metadata.
