Happenly

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Overview

A vibrant what's-on events theme: big date blocks, gradient posters, a weekend strip, scroll-snap rails, ticket buttons and venue pages.

Happenly is a block theme for city what's-on guides, venue networks, festival programmes and community calendars. It is dark by default (midnight ground, signal coral, electric blue and sun yellow) with a Daytime scheme one click away, and it behaves like a wall of posters: oversized Epilogue type, big date blocks, sticker tags and scroll-snap rails.

Built in, with no plugins:

  • Events and venues with typed details: category, area, tags (free, family friendly, outdoor, accessible), start and end dates, price, ticket button, address and map (loaded only after a click), galleries and a live "Ended" state.
  • Search and filters: category, area, tags, price and sort orders, soonest first by default so past events sink.
  • A weekend hero with the next Friday to Sunday, a day strip, a date ticker, a poster grid, a featured event with its date block, a venue spotlight and a hero with a background video and a pause button.
  • A designed event page: big date block, photo mosaic with lightbox, ticket card, where and when facts, map and organiser form.
  • Category and area pages with a banner and icon.
  • About 30 patterns: heroes, rails, lists, galleries (masonry and carousel), forms (contact, newsletter), FAQ, stats, testimonials, footers and full pages.
  • Forms with a Messages screen, motion classes, galleries and lightbox, featured video, light and dark schemes (the Symelo Theme Kit).
  • Three style variations: Daytime, Festival and Jazz club.

The event details are edited with the free Secure Custom Fields plugin; the theme offers to install it. Listings already show before it is installed.

Questions

Where do form messages go?

Contact and newsletter forms are stored under Messages in the dashboard and emailed to the site's admin address. Change the recipient under Messages → Settings, or per form in the block's settings.

How do I add an event?

Go to Events → Add New. Set the category, area and tags in the sidebar, and fill the details (dates, price, ticket link, photos) in the event details box. Appearance → Import demo installs a sample guide to start from.

How are past events handled?

The default order is soonest first. An event that has finished gets an "Ended" label and is hidden from the soonest-first list.

Can I use a light design?

Yes. Visitors can switch with the sun and moon button in the header, and Appearance → Editor → Styles offers the Daytime, Festival and Jazz club variations.

Can I turn animations off?

Visitors who prefer reduced motion see no animations and the background video starts paused; everyone else can pause it with the button in its corner.

All versions

  1. 1.0.0WordPress 7.0+ · PHP 7.4+ZIP · 2.4 MB
    • First release.

    SHA-256 2958c6d4ee81532f1cb841d5219d730e64937e4060000de676bf5bd73c5c5ec3

Credits

Happenly WordPress Theme, (C) 2026 Symelo LTD. Happenly is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.

  • Symelo Theme Kit and the Symelo directory foundation: (C) 2026 Symelo LTD, GPLv2 or later.
  • Epilogue: (C) 2020 The Epilogue Project Authors, SIL Open Font License 1.1 (assets/fonts/epilogue/OFL.txt), https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Epilogue
  • Instrument Sans: (C) 2022 The Instrument Sans Project Authors, SIL Open Font License 1.1 (assets/fonts/instrument-sans/OFL.txt), https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Instrument+Sans
  • Lucide icons (in the directory foundation): ISC License, https://lucide.dev (inc/foundation/LICENSE-lucide.txt).
  • Tabler Icons ("dental", used as the tooth icon; in the directory foundation): MIT License, https://tabler.io/icons (inc/foundation/LICENSE-lucide.txt).
  • Images: Symelo placeholder library (https://symelo.com/tools/placeholder-images), (C) 2026 Symelo LTD, distributed with the theme under the GPLv2 or later: assets/images/abstract-5.webp (abstract-5), assets/images/abstract-10.webp (abstract-10), assets/images/pulse-poster.webp and assets/video/pulse-loop.mp4 (a slow pan made from abstract-5); foundation images inc/foundation/demo/images/: cafe.webp (interiors-8), bakery.webp (food-12), trattoria.webp (food-4), guesthouse.webp (interiors-4), cowork.webp (workspace-8), ceramics.webp (workspace-6), spa.webp (interiors-7), gallery.webp (architecture-12), old-town.webp (travel-9), harbour.webp (travel-5).

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