Import Eventive films into Modern Events Calendar

Importing Eventive films into Modern Events Calendar is a breeze with Jeero. Instead of manually copying and pasting information, your website will always have up-to-date information, including dates, prices, and ticketing.

Eventive delivers a technology platform designed specifically to enhance all aspects of the film screening experience, from ticketing to virtual cinema. Crafted with care by independent film lovers.

Modern Events Calendar is a popular WordPress calendar plugin with a stylish and practical design.

This tutorial will show you how to connect your WordPress website to Eventive. You will then import your films into the Modern Events Calendar plugin. When finished, you will have a website that provides an always-updated overview of your films, including showtimes, movie details, images and trailers.

Prerequisites

  1. Check that your WordPress website is up and running.

  2. Get your Secret API key. Your API keys are available while you are logged in to your Eventive dashboard here.

Step 1 – Install Modern Events Calendar

  1. Ga in de WordPress Admin naar Plugins → Toevoegen.
  2. Zoek op ‘modern events calendar’.
  3. Installeer en activeer Modern Events Calendar plugin.

Je ziet nu een nieuw Events menu-item in de WordPress Admin.

Step 2 – Install Jeero

  1. Go to Plugins → Add new in the WordPress admin.
  2. Look for ‘jeero’.
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  3. Install and activate the Jeero plugin.

Step 3 – Start the sync

  1. Go to Jeero in the WordPress admin.

  2. Select Eventive in the Ticketing solution field:

    DashboardPostsMediaPagesCommentsAppearancePluginsJeero Edit import GeneralGeneral Modern Events CalendarModern Events Calendar Ticketing Solution Eventive Save Changes

  3. Click on Save Changes.

  4. Enter your Eventive secret API key:

    DashboardPostsMediaPagesCommentsAppearancePluginsJeero Edit import GeneralGeneral Modern Events CalendarModern Events Calendar Ticketing Solution Eventive Eventive secret API key Save Changes

  5. Click on Save Changes.

  6. Select one or more Event buckets.

    DashboardPostsMediaPagesCommentsAppearancePluginsJeero Edit import GeneralGeneral Modern Events CalendarModern Events Calendar Ticketing Solution Eventive Eventive secret API keyEvent Buckets Feed Save Changes

  7. Click on Save Changes.

  8. Click on the Modern Events Calendar tab.

  9. Tick the Enable Modern Events Calendar import checkbox:

    DashboardPostsMediaPagesCommentsAppearancePluginsJeero Edit import GeneralGeneral Modern Events CalendarModern Events Calendar Enable import Enable Modern Events Calendar import Save Changes
  10. Click on Save Changes.

The sync is now active. Your films will be visible in Modern Events Calendar within 5 minutes:

Step 4 – Show your events on your website

Clicking on the tickets link automatically leads visitors to the proper Eventive ticketing page:

Step 5 – Choose the right plan

Jeero's free plan allows you to sync up to ten upcoming films at any given time. Ideal for small organisations and testing purposes.

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Conclusion

In this tutorial, you learned how to connect Modern Events Calendar to Eventive and have all of your films automatically published on your WordPress website. Jeero handles the synchronization between the two and saves you from manually copy-pasting all of the film details after each update.

I hope you found this guide useful. If you require any additional information, please do not hesitate to contact me . I'm also curious if there are any ticketing or calendar plugins that I should include.