Conference, as it’s name suggests, was created from the start to be the easiest, quickest and most robust conference WordPress theme available.
Conference WordPress theme will help you get your site up and running in minutes, provide an excellent user and admin experience, and help convert visitors in to attendees!
SPEAKERS
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Speakers are what a lot of people attend conferences for. As a conference organizer, one of your main objectives is to create a killer line-up of speakers. Our Conference theme provides you with an easy but powerful tool to showcase these speakers and help to shine the spotlight on them effortlessly via our free plugin.
✓ Add an unlimited number of speakers
✓ Add photo, title, company, position, social links, company website link and bio for each speaker
✓ Automatic speaker index page creation – create a page, choose the template and click publish
✓ Single speaker page displays full information and all of their sessions automatically
✓ Easily add speakers to sessions in your conference
✓ Speakers automatically appear on session pages and full schedule listings
✓ Speaker widget available for drag and drop placement with options for displaying information
SESSIONS
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Sessions make up your full conference schedule and it’s what attendees need to see and understand. We spent a long time planning and researching the best way for admins and visitors to see this important information. We created a free dedicated plugin to achieve this.
✓ Add an unlimited number of sessions spanning unlimited days
✓ Sessions can be categorized for easier management and display on the front end – group and display your sessions by category for attendees
✓ Add session name, date, start and end time, location, choose speakers and categorize
✓ Automatic sessions index page (full schedule) creation – create a page, choose the template and click publish
✓ Full schedule page lists each day of sessions individually, displays title, time, date, location, full speaker list, excerpt, and read more
✓ Single session pages display all information and each speaker can be clicked to view their profile and other sessions they may be speaking at
✓ Highlight particular session for any reason – such as ‘Lunch’ or ‘Keynote’ to bring further attention when scanning the full schedule
✓ Session widget available for drag and drop placement with options for displaying information
SPONSORS
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Sponsors are a primary way of attempting to cover the cost of running a conference without selling a single ticket. We allow you to showcase them prominently, wherever you wish in your theme via our free dedicated plugin that the theme is fully styled for.
✓ Create unlimited sponsor levels – for example platinum, gold, silver etc.
✓ Create full profiles for each sponsor including Company name, logo, website + url plus bio
✓ Assign sponsors to levels easily
✓ List your sponsors anywhere via either a shortcode or drag and drop widget with options for displaying via sponsorship level and if you wish to display logo, name, link and bio plus sorting order
ZERO TICKETING TIE-IN
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When we first started to plan out the conference theme we looked at various plugins, add-ons, services etc that were available. Many conference themes out there will force you in to using a specific service. There’s no need for this at all. We leave the freedom of purchasing tickets to you, the organizer, to decide. All ticketing services allow embeds in WordPress pages, we even show you an example of Eventbrite (one of the largest services) in the theme demo registration page. All other services offer the same. Make the choice that is best for you and your conference.
THEME FEATURES
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✓ Bloat-Free Theme
✓ Customize all your colors and theme options via the live WordPress customizer
✓ Easily set your own background images for every section of the home page
✓ Featured images on page templates appear as the top banner automatically
✓ HTML5 and CSS3 construction (heavily commented)
✓ XML Preview Data file included for import
✓ Import file for widgets and all their settings and content
✓ Extensive live help documentation
✓ Translation ready with mo/po files supplied
✓ WPML ready
✓ Fully Responsive Design
✓ SEO Best Practice Coding
✓ Fully working sponsorship form with validation via the free Contact Form 7 plugin
✓ Lightbox for linked images
✓ Multiple registered widgets for footer and right sidebar pages
✓ Paginated Comments
✓ Paginated Posts for long articles
✓ Responsive videos, buttons, icon buttons, google maps, toggles, tabs and more via our free short codes plugin
✓ Multi-Track WordPress powered Audio player (self hosted)
✓ Multi-Track WordPress powered Video player (self hosted)
✓ Youtube, Vimeo, SoundCloud, Twitter etc. embeds supported
✓ 13 Layered PSD Files
✓ Support proudly supplied for installation issues / but not for customization (available at cost)
Full suite of Page Templates:
✓ Dedicated Home Page
✓ Automatic Site Map Page
✓ Dedicated 404 Error Page
✓ Dedicated Search Page
✓ Dedicated Full Schedule Page
✓ Dedicated Session Single Page
✓ Dedicated Speaker Index Page
✓ Dedicated Speaker Single Page
✓ Blog Index / Category / Archive Page / Author Page
✓ Blog Single Page
✓ Full Width and Right Sidebar Pages
