Install and activate POM Events

Installation is ordinary, but the verification afterwards is what matters: a plugin that is active on the wrong theme looks installed and does nothing.

Before you start

1. Confirm the POM theme is active — see Requirements and compatibility.
2. Have the production ZIP from your POM account.
3. Have the license key ready, from My Account → Licenses & Downloads at account.pom.es.
4. Know the site timezone under Settings → General and correct it first if needed.

Install the plugin

On a single-site installation:

1. Open Plugins → Add Plugin.
2. Select Upload Plugin.
3. Upload the POM Events ZIP and install it.
4. Select Activate Plugin.

On multisite:

1. Open Network Admin → Plugins → Add Plugin.
2. Select Upload Plugin.
3. Upload the ZIP and install it.
4. Return to Network Admin → Plugins.
5. Select Network Activate, or activate it on the main site and on each site that needs events.

Use the official release ZIP. It contains the bundled runtime dependencies; a partial copy produces a settings screen that reports POM Framework is unavailable.

Verify the installation

Four checks, in this order:

1. Events appears in the sidebar. A calendar icon, with All Events, Add New, Event types, Categories and Tags beneath it. If it is missing, the active theme is not POM.
2. Settings → POM Events opens with the General, Archive, Single event and License sections.
3. The events archive resolves. If event URLs return a not-found error, open Settings → Permalinks and save once to refresh the rewrite rules.
4. No POM Framework error is shown on the settings screen.

Activate the license

Open Settings → POM Events → License, paste the key from your POM account, and save and validate it.

The key authorizes this domain and enables private updates. On a multisite subsite, the section also states the network requirement: POM Events must be active on the main site and the network license configured from there.

Full detail: Activate your POM Events license.

Make the first configuration decision

Open Settings → POM Events → General.

Totally disable event attendees functionality decides whether this site uses the built-in registration at all. Leave it off if the site takes registrations; turn it on if events are announcements only.

Turning it on removes, everywhere: the event's registration form and attendants panels, the registration button, the attendee list, the Assistants column on the events list, and the capacity and waiting-list logic.

Make this decision now. Changing it after events exist changes what visitors see on every event at once.

Set the archive defaults

Open Settings → POM Events → Archive and set at least:

• Posts per page — how many events a list shows before Load more events appears. The default is 12.
• Events thumbnail placeholder — the image used for events with no featured image.
• Error message — the text shown when a search returns nothing.

These apply to every event list on the site.

What activation does not do

• It does not create any events.
• It does not add an event list to any page — you place the shortcodes yourself.
• It does not send emails, then or ever.
• It does not migrate content from another events plugin.

Installation result

A complete installation has:

• POM Events active, on a site running the POM theme;
• Settings → POM Events reachable with all four sections;
• a valid license for this domain;
• the attendee decision made;
• archive defaults saved;
• event URLs resolving.

Next, learn the interface with Tour the POM Events interface, or go straight to Create your first event.