Review: Evently - Conference And Meetup Theme

During this disaster in Corona, everyone stayed at home for safety, but the daily official work continues. Work from home - a very timely plan, and everyone continues to have meetings/conferences online. In the big corporate houses, seminars, and meet-ups often continue. The task of managing these events can be much easier through a website. Today we are going to talk about a stunning and creative event management WordPress theme -  Evently. It's an expert-looking WordPress theme that can enhance your event acceptance and deliver necessary information about your event. There is nine pre-built page demo with a huge customization facility over shortcodes.

Premium plugins like WP Bakery page builder, Slider revolution, and other essential plugins are included with this theme pack. Evently is a fast, responsive, SEO friendly WordPress theme with a powerful theme admin panel. Let's have a look over the features of this theme.

Feature List

Mobile Compatibility

For the past few years, people have accessed the internet from their mobile phone or tablet more than from a desktop or laptop computer. Desktop traffic has been shrinking for more than a decade, and mobile internet use continues to increase. Google says 61% of users are unlikely to return to a mobile site they had trouble accessing, and 40% visit an opponent site instead. That's why it's vital to check the mobile compatibility of any WordPress theme demo to investigate whether it can adopt all sizes of the screen or not.

Since we have 9 different home page options, we are randomly picking one and checking mobile compatibility. The design of the whole website on the mobile screen looks just as great as the desktop. The position of the logo and the three-bar drop-down menu is unique. There is a fine border around the Web seminar demo and “back-to-the-top” button on the design conference demo. This variation will encourage you to explore each demo. In addition to this, we have explored different blog styles and gallery options. There are no inconsistencies anywhere, even the parallax effects work amazingly in the mobile version. We have to admit that the developers have made the theme extremely mobile-friendly so that people from all walks of life can visit this website with any size screen device.

We have also checked the Evently theme via Google's mobile compatibility test, and Google also verified this theme as mobile harmonious. So you don't have to worry about mobile compatibility if you decided to go with the theme.

Design Review

A fusion of relevant page templates and useful features helps make Evently a theme that should provide all the components required to create a flourishing events website with WordPress. Evently has nine pre-built homepage layout that you can import into your WordPress dashboard in just one click includes many elements to help you promote your event online, all muffled up in a pro-looking design. Thanks to this, if you want to launch a site for a conference or other type of corporate event, Evently should work properly.

If you take a look at the demos, you’ll see that the front page of your event website can display the title, date, and location of your event in a very prominent position. As visitors scroll down the default homepage layout, they can see photos promoting your event, the main speakers' profiles, and the event management teams. You can arrange event registration and schedule proving from the home page. Isn't it very beneficial? You can take ideas from different demos and mix them into your desired ones with WP Bakery page builder and Shortcodes.

For events with sponsors, representing the logos and other details of those clients is taken care of by the relevant homepage section. As you might expect from a popular events WordPress theme, you can add call-to-action buttons to your site to encourage your visitors to buy a ticket. The other templates in the Evently package make it easy to publish all the content that a good event website needs, such as information about accommodation, the venue, code of conduct, and more.

Speed Test Review

Page speed is vital to users because faster pages are more efficient and provide a much better on-page user experience. As per the recent study, if a page takes longer than 3 seconds to load, over a quarter of users will click away. Mobile users expect speed, too. In the same survey, 73% of users reported visiting a website that loaded too slow. Page speed also affects the conversion rate.

We have tested the Evently WordPress theme on Pingdom, and it scored 66(D) out of 100. It took 3.79 seconds to finish loading. The overall page size is 4.2 MB, which is more than expected. Why did the score come so low? The answer lies in higher HTTP requests and the presence of multiple scripts and stylesheets. The compression of scripts decreases response times by reducing the size of the HTTP response. Gzip is the most popular and effective compression method currently available and generally reduces the response size by about 70%. Approximately 90% of today's Internet traffic travels through browsers that claim to support gzip. When the browser requests a static image and sends cookies with the request, the server ignores the cookies. You can reduce the number of components by combining files and multiple scripts into one script, combine multiple CSS files into one style sheet, and using CSS Sprites and image maps. W3 total cache is a great caching plugin, and you can use it to make several modifications.

SEO Review

Nowadays, customers depend on search engines to help them find everything. This means that regardless of your business offers, your target audience is likely exploring for products or services like yours on search engines like Google. And if you want to draw them to your site, you need search engine optimization. SEO helps you get organic visitors and push your website ahead in search ranking.

We have tested the Evently - Conference & Meetup Theme SEO capability on SEO Site checkup, and the score is convincing enough. It scored 68 out of 100. We can see the demo website passed 35 tests but failed in 12. So, there is room for plenty of adjustment. The site is needing meta description, keyword usage, heading tags. The demo website also uses inline CSS files, which is not suitable for SEO, and the demo website all images doesn't contain image alt tags. Don't worry, and you don't have to be an expert to solve these. Use a premium SEO plugin, and you can blow these issues away.

Rich snippets are search result particles that have a higher click-through rate. People prefer to click on the results that give them more information. If the click-through rate of a snippet increases, you'll get more traffic from that search result. ... In the long run, rich snippets will affect your ranking as well.

We can see that the Evently - Conference & Meetup theme is not acceptable for rich results because Page's resources could not be loaded properly. Here, it is mentioned that it can't support rich results for now due to CSS script and JavaScript issues. But this can be solved via SEO plugins. It is important to know that Rich Results is one of the most important things for getting a good ranking on Google.

Customer Support Review

Mikado themes are about to touch a thousand number of happy customers. Here, they are trying to deliver high-quality products that can give you a premium experience. We have checked the comment section to see how they respond to their consumers. We are compelled to say that they are continually working to provide professional support to customers via the help center.

In the rating section, besides the salutation of the theme, many complaints are also being heard. However, it is good to see that the developer team has expressed its sincere regret below all the negative ratings and expects transparent accountability and feedback.

Evently has made more than 990 sales in such a short time since they have started. It has 4.17 average ratings from 23 reviews.

Supported Plugins

There is a bundled bonus for everyone who purchases this awesome Evently Meetup WordPress theme. You get access to three premium plugins whose total price is more than the theme price, but you get them free of cost with this theme. WP bakery page builder, Slider Revolution, and Timetable Responsive Schedule premium plugins come free with the theme pack. Also, this theme is WooCommerce, WPML, Contact form 7, and RTL supported.

Summarize

Evently has the most live front-end editing experience among all the conference themes. The theme is self-contained in many respects, but it has several flaws like less loading speed, SEO score, and Rich snippets incompatibility. We are overwhelmed by its superb design, essential plug-in support, and round-the-clock consumer support system. You can get such a good theme on the Envato platform at a meager price, so what are you waiting for?