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February 16, 2016 at 4:57 am

Hi Balders,

Event Espresso injects the event details into the_content and so uses your themes existing templates to output the details, as long as the theme is well coded according to WordPress best practices/standards EE should work just fine with the theme.

How does the implementing work? Via shortcodes/widgets?

When you install Event Espresso it creates its own endpoints such as /events/ and /venues/ that it uses to display the list of events (and venues), this is done using your themes archive.php template file. When you view a single event EE uses your themes single.php template file and injects the event details into the_content on the fly, you would view an event at /events/{event_name}

This means that EE events will usually look similar to single posts on your site however it does depend on the theme setup.

We have a few shortcodes that allow you to place things like the Ticket Selector onto a custom page if you prefer and you can also alter the order of the event details displayed on the single event page and event listing if you prefer.

In a nutshell Event Espresso integrates into your theme to act very similar to regular posts, you do not usually need shortcodes/widget to display your event details but it does depends on the theme you want to use and how you want to display the data.