Events Widget With Excerpt And Image
Tickera’s core ships a basic events widget for sidebars — a list of upcoming events with title and date. For sites that want a more visually-rich widget — featured image, excerpt, card layout — there’s a free custom events widget we maintain that drops in as an additional widget alongside the core one.
What it adds over the core widget
The custom widget displays each event as a card with:
- Event featured image (pulled from the event’s WordPress post)
- Event title (linked to the event page)
- Event date and time
- Excerpt — the first 1–2 sentences of the event description
- Optional buy-ticket link
Compared to the core widget (plain text list of titles + dates), this one feels like a card — drawing more attention. Useful for homepages and visual sidebars.
Installation
- Download the add-on plugin: custom-tickera-events-widget.zip
- WordPress admin → Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin, select the zip, install.
- Activate.
- Go to Appearance → Widgets (or the Site Editor for block themes), add Tickera Events with Excerpt and Image to the sidebar.
- Configure: how many events to show, whether to show the image, what to link to, optional excerpt length.
Customising the look
The widget outputs clean semantic markup, so you can style it via your theme’s stylesheet. The wrapper is .tc-events-widget-custom; each event is a .tc-event-card with sub-elements for title, image, date and excerpt. Drop a few CSS rules into your child theme’s style.css to match brand colours and spacing.
If you need more flexibility
For more than a sidebar widget — full grid of upcoming events with filters, pagination, category facets, search — see the official Event Listing add-on and the Event Calendar add-on. Both are dedicated UIs for browsing events at scale.
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