Live Events is a versatile live blogging plugin that can be used to cover sport events, conferences, political elections, tv shows, movie openings and more.

What makes this plugin unique is the fact that is not limited to a single timeline of textual information, instead each event supports:

An unlimited number of timeline sections where you can add textual content, images, videos, tweets, or custom HTML.
An unlimited number of statistic sections to display live statistics. This feature is extremely useful for example with sport events to cover information such as the score of the match, general stats, offensive stats and defensive stats.
An unlimited number of comment sections to engage you users.

Great attention has also been posed to make the plugin completely customizable and with the included 95 options you will be able to change every aspect based on your specific needs.

Live Updates

Your viewers will be able to receive the new entries of the timeline, updated statistics and the new comments submitted by the users automatically, without needing to refresh their browser.

Timeline

Use the timeline sections to update your users about facts that happen in real time, like the latest goal of a football match, the results of a political election, the scenes of an episode of your favorite tv show or the live commentary of a tech conference.

In a timeline you will not be restricted to include only text, the following elements can be included:

Images
Videos
Tweets
Instangram Posts
Advertising Elements
Iframes
Custom HTML
And More …

Custom icons can also be associated with the timeline items, this gives you the following possibilities:

The icons can be used to easily represent different categories of events. For example with football a ball icon can be used to represent the goals, a whistle icon can be used to represent fouls, etc.
When a live commentary has multiple authors the icons can be used to display an image or an avatar of the specific person that is submitting the timeline item.

Statistics

Use the statistic sections to display the statistics of the event, this feature has been specifically thought for sport events and it’s perfect to display and compare statistics with sport like football, rugby, tennis and more.

The single statistics can be displayed as simple numeric values or also represented with horizontal bars based on your needs.

Comments

This plugin gives you the ability to add a live comment system in your events, so you can engage your users and grow your community.

All the submitted comments can be moderated from the back-end. You can also limit the amount of comments that each user can submit or close specific comment sections when needed.

Customize Everything

Consistency is a key principle in design and with the included 63 style options you will be able to:

Automatically scale up and down the entire layout of the event
Customize the color of each element displayed in the event
Customize the typographic style of each single element displayed in the event
Assign a custom responsive breakpoint that switch the layout of the event from Desktop Mode to Mobile Mode
Customize the textual messages displayed in the event
Determine which social network share icons should be displayed
More…

In terms of funcionalities with the 32 advanced options you will be able to:

Use the WordPress Transient API to save server resources when the events are updated live
Determine the exact time between the requests sent to the server to update the events
Allow access to the administrative pages of the plugin only to WordPress users with specific capabilities
Customize the back-end pagination system
Automatically limit the maximum number of comments that a user is able to submit in a time interval

Multisite Ready

This plugin can be used on a WordPress Network, and supports both a Network Activation (the plugin will be activated on all the sites of your WordPress Network in a single step) and a Single Site Activation (your plugin will be manually activated on single sites of the network).

Multilanguage Ready

Live Events comes by default in English and Italian, if you want to translate the plugin in another language simply create a translation file or manually translate it with a multilanguage plugin.

High Quality Support

Support for this plugin is provided in English and Italian directly via email by the plugin developer. If you experience any problems or if you need detailed technical info about specific plugin parts you are in good hands.

Documentation

The official plugin documentation, including references to the video tutorials and the FAQs, is available in the documentation page published on our website.

Credits

This plugin makes use of the following resources:

Chosen licensed under the MIT License
Icons from Entypo licensed under the SIL License and embedded with Fontello

Updates

26.05.2023 - v1.34
  - A TinyMCE editor is now optionally applied to the "HTML" field available in the timeline item
21.02.2023 - v1.33
  - The location of the event can now be optionally specified
  - Minor bug-fix
07.02.2023 - v1.32
  - The user can now specify the time zone of the event
  - Minor back-end improvements 
12.07.2022 - v1.31
  - The events can now optionally implement the LiveBlogPosting Schema
16.05.2022 - v1.27
  - Back-end improvements
20.08.2020 - v1.25
  - Removed deprecated jQuery methods
18.12.2019 - v1.24
  - Fixed CSS issues caused by the changes applied in WordPress 5.3
  - Twitter share button URL updated
10.09.2019 - v1.23
  - Improved the front-end CSS
07.01.2019 - v1.22
  - The "Event" block has been added
29.03.2018 - v1.21
  - CSS specificity has been added in the Fontello stylesheet to avoid conflicts with themes or plugins that use Fontello
13.03.2018 - v1.20
  - Auto-paragraphs are now applied in the "Content" field of the Timeline Item
  - When an existing Timeline Item is modified its time is no longer updated
  - Improved validation in the Timeline Sections menu
13.02.2018 - v1.19
  - Initial release

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