ITconf – Conference & Events WordPress Theme

A conference website has three lives and almost all of them cover only one

Before the event it sells tickets: who is speaking, on what, how much it costs. During, it is a tool people open on a phone standing in a corridor to find which room their session is in. And after, it is the archive: the recordings, the slides, and the proof it went well, for selling next year's edition.

Almost every conference theme handles the first well and forgets the other two. Worth looking at it with that in mind.

ITConf is a WordPress theme for conferences, symposia and professional events.

What it brings

• A speakers module, with profiles, biography and links, which is what gets looked at most before buying.
• An event programme, with timings and sessions.
• More than fifty modules of its own and a header builder, on the author's framework.
• Selling with WooCommerce, for tickets and sponsorships.
• Editing with Elementor, with bundled plugins and extensive documentation.

The acid test: the programme on a phone

It is what separates a conference website that works from a pretty one, and it takes five minutes to check before buying.

Open the demo on a phone and find the programme. Can it be filtered by room? By time slot? Can you see what is happening right now? Does a day with six parallel rooms fit without endless scrolling?

An attendee standing in a corridor, with poor signal and thirty seconds, is not going to read an eight-column table. If the programme does not solve that, on the day nobody uses the website and everybody asks at the desk.

What has to be solved separately

The actual ticket. Selling with WooCommerce works, but a conference needs more: a named ticket per attendee, rate types with date-driven increases, a code to validate at the door, and the accreditation list. That is an event ticketing plugin, not an ordinary shop.

Attendee data. If you collect dietary requirements, accessibility needs or job titles, that is personal information with a retention period. And if you share the list with sponsors, it has to be stated up front and accepted, not buried in the small print.

Alternatives in the catalogue

If your event is more celebration than conference (a wedding, a gala, a corporate party), Avala is aimed at that ground, where what matters is presentation and RSVPs rather than a room-by-room programme.

And if you are going to sell tickets seriously, look first at how you solve it: WooCommerce Subscriptions fits if you sell an annual pass or membership of the community organising the event, and for date-banded discounts (the early bird rate, which is how a conference fills) Advanced Coupons allows scheduling them to switch on and off by themselves.

Frequently asked questions

What are the pages built with?
With Elementor, on the author's own framework, with more than fifty modules and a header builder.

Can tickets be sold?
With WooCommerce yes. For named tickets and door validation an events plugin is needed.

Does it bring speaker profiles?
Yes, it is one of its main modules.

And a room-by-room programme?
It brings a session programme. Worth checking on a phone how it behaves with several parallel rooms.

Is it suitable for recurring events?
Yes, though worth deciding from the start whether each edition is a section or a separate site.

Can the recordings be published afterwards?
Yes, with the theme's content pages, although video hosting is contracted separately.