HappenBoard ships two kinds of ready-made layout: patterns you insert into any page, and Site Editor templates that decide how event pages look by default. This guide lists what is in the box and how to change it.
Where the patterns are
Open the block inserter, switch to the patterns tab and look for the HappenBoard category, described as layouts and sections for event sites. Inserting a pattern drops ordinary blocks into your page: from that moment they are yours to edit, move or delete, and nothing links them back to the original.
Eleven patterns are registered. Some suit any page, others are built for a single event template.
Patterns for pages and archives
- Hero: next upcoming event: a full-width band with a large centred headline, an introductory sentence and the Upcoming Events block set to three events.
- Featured event with mini calendar: a two-column row with the next single event and a short paragraph on the left, and the Calendar block on the right.
- Three upcoming events: a centred heading over the Upcoming Events block set to three, for dropping mid-page.
- Calendar with upcoming events sidebar: a wide row with the calendar taking two thirds and a vertical list of the next eight events in the remaining third.
- Compact agenda: a small bordered box with a heading and the next four events. Meant for a sidebar, a footer or a modal.
- Events grid landing: a landing page in two parts, a bold full-width headline with an intro paragraph, then the Events Grid block showing six events in three columns with image, date, venue and excerpt.
Patterns for single event templates
- Single event hero: a cover block using the event’s featured image, with the title, the date and time, a countdown without seconds and the calendar buttons stacked over it.
- Event CTA strip: a bordered card with a save-the-date heading over the Add to Calendar block, then a reserve-a-seat heading over the RSVP Form. Sized for a narrow sidebar column.
- Venue spotlight: a bordered card holding the Event Venue block with its embedded map and address, the calendar buttons, and an RSVP form under its own heading.
- Speakers strip: a heading and three placeholder speaker cards, each a round image, a name and a role. The names are dummy text you replace.
- Sponsor tiers: a heading and three tiers of logo placeholders, labelled gold partners, silver partners and community supporters. Replace the images and rename the tiers per event.
The last two are deliberately static. HappenBoard has no speaker or sponsor record to pull from, so these are starting points you fill in by hand for each event.
The Site Editor templates
If your theme is a block theme, HappenBoard also registers five default templates. You will find them under Appearance → Editor → Templates. They need WordPress 6.7 or later; on an older version the templates are skipped and your theme’s own templates apply.
- Single Event: header, then the title with the date and time under it, the featured image in 16 by 9, a countdown without seconds, and a two-column body. The wide column holds the description, the RSVP form and a list of up to eight upcoming dates for a recurring event. The narrow column holds the venue, the organizer, the calendar buttons and the categories and tags. Footer at the bottom.
- Events Archive: header, a heading, the full Calendar block, then a list of the next ten events grouped by month with their venue. Footer at the bottom.
- Event Category: header, a small label reading Events category, the category name as the page title, the category description, then a grid of twelve events in three columns. Footer at the bottom.
- Event Series: the all-dates page of a recurring event. Same opening as the single event template, title, date and featured image, then a full-width list of up to 48 occurrences grouped by month.
- Single Booking Type: the page of one bookable service, with the booking flow already placed on it so a bare title is never all a visitor gets.
Overriding a template
Open Appearance → Editor → Templates, pick the template and edit it like any other. Your version takes precedence over the one the plugin provides, so you are never stuck with these layouts. To get back to the original, delete your customisation and the plugin template applies again.
Since the templates are made of the same blocks as everything else, you can swap the calendar for a grid, drop the countdown, or add the weather block wherever it suits you. Building a single event page goes through the available blocks one by one.
The all-dates page of a recurring event
Alongside its normal address, every event also answers at a second URL ending in /all-dates/, which lists its upcoming occurrences. That page uses the series template described above, which makes it a convenient thing to share for a repeating meetup: one link that always shows the next dates. Recurring events covers how those dates are generated.
If that address returns a 404, the rewrite rules need rebuilding: open Settings → Permalinks and save the page without changing anything. That is the standard WordPress fix and it is enough here.