Description
The Advanced Speaker add-on adds dedicated pages for speakers to Modern Events Calendar, shortcode-based listings, list or grid views, and a relationship of events associated with each profile. It serves conference, congress, course, meetup, and corporate events websites that need to display who is participating in the program, highlight selected names, and organize ongoing events by speaker without creating manual pages for each person.
Key Features
- Dedicated pages
Creates a dedicated page for each speaker registered in the calendar. - Optional shortcodes
Renders speaker lists with configurable options per shortcode. - Events per speaker
Displays events related to the speaker within the generated listings. - List and grid
Shows all speakers on list or grid pages. - Name highlighting
Marks selected speakers as highlights during event registration.
Benefits of Advanced Speaker
- Clearer programming
Helps visitors understand who is participating in each event. - Less manual work
Reduces repetitive creation of individual pages for speakers. - Better organization
Groups profiles and related events into a more predictable navigation. - More editorial context
Highlights important program names without changing the main calendar.
Who Is It For?
- Conference, congress, and seminar organizers on WordPress.
- Websites that use Modern Events Calendar to publish agendas with speakers.
- Producers of corporate, educational, cultural, or community events.
Advanced Speaker works as an additional component to structure the speaker layer within Modern Events Calendar, keeping profiles, listings, and related events connected to the calendar flow. For projects with many guests, instructors, or presenters, the add-on makes audience navigation easier and makes the program simpler to look up by person, format, or participation in ongoing events.
Frequently asked questions
Is Modern Events Calendar Advanced Speaker GPL-licensed?
Yes. Modern Events Calendar Advanced Speaker is distributed under the GPL (GNU General Public License). You may legally use, modify and redistribute it on as many sites as you want.
Can I use Modern Events Calendar Advanced Speaker on multiple sites?
Yes. You can install Modern Events Calendar Advanced Speaker on as many sites as you want. Only automatic updates through Ultrapack Auto Updater have a limit: from 3 to 80 sites, depending on the plan.
How much does Modern Events Calendar Advanced Speaker cost at Ultrapack?
Modern Events Calendar Advanced Speaker costs US$2.99 as a single purchase, and it is also included in the subscription plans starting at US$12/mo (VIP I).
Does Modern Events Calendar Advanced Speaker include updates?
Yes. The current version of Modern Events Calendar Advanced Speaker is 1.4.0, published at Ultrapack on Jan 15, 2026. Subscribers update straight from the WordPress dashboard with UAU (Ultrapack Auto Updater).
Is Modern Events Calendar Advanced Speaker scanned before publication?
Yes. Every version of Modern Events Calendar Advanced Speaker goes through a malware scan (ClamAV and YARA rules, at UltraHub) before it is published.
How to install
Automatic updates: this item is updated by the Ultrapack Auto Updater. With it installed, the new version shows up in your dashboard like any other WordPress update (how to set it up).
This item is an add-on for the Modern Events Calendar plugin. Installed on its own it throws no error, but it does not work either.
- Install and activate the Modern Events Calendar plugin before this one.
- Download the file
mec-advanced-speaker.zip. - In the WordPress dashboard, go to Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin.
- Select the file
mec-advanced-speaker.zip, click Install Now and then Activate.
- Both stay active at the same time. Deactivating the Modern Events Calendar plugin turns this add-on off with it.
- An add-on settings usually show up inside the main plugin screens, not in a menu of their own. If you find nothing new in the dashboard after activating, look there before opening a ticket.
Stuck on a step? Open a ticket telling us which one you stopped at.

UAU Ready