Eventum is an awesome WordPress theme for event and conference sites. Eventum is developed by Themeum, an elite author at Themeforest. The theme offers every necessary feature you would need to launch an event/conference website. It can organize and display all the relevant information. You can sell the conference ticket and special event items right on the website since Eventum comes with WooCommerce integration as well.
Getting Started
After downloading the theme, you get a zipped folder which provides the demo contents, Visual Composer (VC), Revolution Slider and other dependencies. Purchasing Eventum means you get two popular premium plugins (Visual Composer and Revolution Slider) for free. So it saves you $53 instantly.
Eventum Features
The core purpose of an event site is to communicate information related to the event date, time, location, speakers etc. Eventum comes with all of them with more additional features.
Countdown Timer: Themeum has developed its own custom VC shortcodes for necessary event features. Users can put a countdown timer on the top of the conference site to let the visitors know how many days are left.
The countdown timer supports a still background image, slider or you can set a video background as well.
A section having a thumbnail image and short description about the event may follow the countdown timer.
You can place buttons to link the user to the event details page and ticket selling system.
Speakers: Eventum has a beautiful homepage block to display the event speakers. It lets you show speaker names, designations, photos and definitely link to their individual profiles. It’s a very crucial feature which is covered by this theme.
At first you need to add speaker profiles to the site using Eventum’s custom post option. Here is a screenshot of the “Add New Speaker” page.
After adding all of your speakers, you can display them all on a single dedicated page. The speakers can be shown in different categories using VC. Themeum’s custom VC addon can place them on any page. A single speaker profile looks like this.
Event Schedules: For any event or conference, schedule is a prime issue. Eventum lets you add detailed event schedule to the site and display on any page.
Schedule information includes session title, session time, location, speaker and more as you like. To add a schedule, go to New > Schedule. The ‘Add New Schedule’ page has all necessary fields required for creating a schedule page. Here is a screenshot.
There are two styles to display schedules- list and tab. Here is a screenshot of the tab-style event schedules.
And this is what the list-style event schedule looks like.
WooCommerce Integration: Eventum supports WooCommerce integration to let you sell your conference tickets right from the event site.
Drag and Drop Page Builder: Themeum offers drag and drop page builder Visual Composer for free with Eventum. WP Bakery’s VC is the most popular page builder plugin for WordPress, that means you can get your site ready in quickest possible time.
The individual Visual Composer plugin is sold at $34, so if you buy Eventum, you can save the total amount instantly.
Premium Slider: If you want to add a slider on the top of your event site to display several important stuffs in a single place, you can do it with the slider plugin included with Eventum.
The theme package includes Slider Revolution plugin. Normally Slider Revolution costs $19, but Themeum gives it for free with Eventum.
Email Newsletter: Want to keep your audience informed?
Eventum offers an option for that too. It comes with MailChimp plugin recommendation and custom code from Themeum so you can add an email newsletter subscription form on your site to communicate with stakeholders.
Pricing and Support
Eventum is priced at only $49 with 6 months pro support. You can extended this support period to 12 months by paying an additional $14.70 while purchasing the theme.
Themeum promises to respond to any paid-theme related forum support query within 24 hours (Monday to Friday). There is a live chat support system for pre-sales questions as well. Find the full Themeum support policy here. If you need help with developing a site using Eventum, you may see this detailed series of video tutorials that demonstrates how to build a complete event site with Themeum.
Summary
Eventum is a gorgeous, fast and powerful theme. You can use it to create a full-fledged conference or event website easily. It offers a great way to introduce your speakers, sessions and schedules along with every other relevant information about your conference. You get premium plugins like Visual Composer and Slider Revolution free with this theme. There is WooCommerce support to sell relevant stuffs as well. So why wait? Download Eventum
