A simple plugin to adapt display methods for your Event Espresso system.
As of April 2026, Custom Event Espresso Event Displayer is a WordPress events plugin with 10 active installations and a 3.7/5 rating from 3 reviews. It has been downloaded 5.4K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 12 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: The Events Calendar.
Event Espresso is an event registration and ticket management plugin. To access certain features you are required to pay for the basic license (basic is $89.95).
Whilst using this it became clear that one thing was missing: a bridge between the Lite and Basic licenses. The Lite version enables users to create events, take bookings and payments but viewing these events is far from ideal. You only get them in list form. For systems with more than 5 events, scrolling could be tedious.
Now if you do buy the basic license you do get access to the Event Espresso Calendar. However, I am here to introduce a custom solution which allows you to embed a shortcode into your page and display them in a different way.
I have likened it to a Monopoly-esque style with a bold header and an excerpt followed…
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 3.5.2 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Bug fixes for customising the excerpt length of an event. If 0 is present then the event description is removed.
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