#Wp plugin for responsive columns professional#

Let’s assign the event to the right time slots now: If you look further down, you will stumble upon the Options which allow you to style the timetable, give the Event a subtitle, and enable/disable the event URL, which I mentioned previously. Note: Content for an Event post is optional, as you can disable the link to the Event post on the actual Timetable if you wish. In this example, we created an event and added some bio about the speaker ( Redon Skikuli in this case) and some details on his session. You can format an Event custom post just like normal posts in WordPress. Let’s have a look at the Event custom posts. You can specify all three of them within the same Event element. The good news, however, is that similar events which occur on various days and times can be specified within the same Event element, so for example, you don’t need to have three Event elements for three “Gym Classes” which are on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, but otherwise are completely similar. To help you visualize it, think of every cell in spreadsheet schedule needing a separate custom post in WordPress. The Events tab is where all the magic happens, as it stores all the data the actual tables will hold. You can also mix these, but you probably shouldn’t unless you have a good reason to. Usually columns are used to determine days, and rows are used to determine a specific time of the event. You can also change the order of the columns. The timetable columns serve as placeholders here, so you can assign Events to the right column. I spent a lot of hours with such changes, which is expectable at a conference, but might be avoidable in other cases, so be aware of that.Īfter installing the plugin, you can find two new tabs on your WordPress Dashboard and one new option in your Dashboard settings. To avoid this, I’d suggest to work on an an initial draft of your schedule in a spreadsheet document, before blessing it off to the Timetable plugin. Timetable for WordPress is available on CodeCanyon and will set you back $20.īefore you get overly excited however, you need to note that timetable doesn’t work like a spreadsheet, so making simple changes (especially switching cells) will costs you a few minutes, which might happen on several occasions if you have constant changes going on. We’re going to have a quick tour of the plugin’s functionalities so you can see if the plugin is able to cater your needs. Having said that, Timetable is designed “for most websites and types of business like gyms, kindergartens, health care or law related”, however the vast flexibility it offers allows you to adapt it to many other use cases (like a tech conference, in my case). The plugin also displayed the tables perfectly on mobile devices, which was a big relief for us when organizing the conference. I personally think of Timetable as a flagship plugin for stylish and responsive schedule creation in WordPress. After a long search, we were lucky to stumble upon the Timetable Responsive Schedule Plugin for WordPress on CodeCanyon, which looked very promising and also didn’t fail to reach our expectations at the end of the day.

When organizing OSCAL 2015 (also proudly sponsored by SitePoint) our team had the exact same problem. I’ve seen many conference websites struggle with this and some just end up putting the agenda on an Excel spreadsheet, which is a pity.

#Wp plugin for responsive columns professional#

However, often tables like those created by TablePress don’t suffice, and a more professional alternative is needed. I covered TablePress in April here on SitePoint, which also comes with a responsive plugin, making a great duo together. Offering a good viewing experience in these cases is often difficult, as one would need to take care of various resolutions and devices to work properly on a responsive website. Tables (and generally everything where cells are involved) can be a pain in WordPress.