The Events Calendar Event Display
The Event Display section for The Events Calendar provides site owners and designers with professional tools to customize how schedules, grids, and individual event listings appear across their WordPress site. Controlling your calendar’s layout is essential for highlighting high-priority events, matching your brand’s visual aesthetic, and providing a clean, easily navigable user interface. By utilizing these layout enhancements, you can ensure that your calendar remains visually engaging and highly structured for your community.
The documentation features a suite of tools built to elevate visual presentation and distribution:
Using Featured Images with Events: An exploration of how to attach media assets to scheduling profiles. This guide links core WordPress media workflows with your calendar layouts, explaining how to utilize high-resolution featured thumbnails to anchor individual event pages, improve list-view aesthetics, and boost overall engagement.
The Calendar Embed Block: A deep-dive guide into deploying the specialized Gutenberg block version of the popular [tribe_events] shortcode. This block allows administrators to seamlessly embed full, responsive calendar layouts directly into any WordPress post or page while using simple sidebar parameters rather than manually writing out complex shortcode attributes.
Using Featured Events: Instructions on how to utilize the “Feature Event” toggle within the post editor. Activating this parameter gives specified events a much more prominent, eye-catching design layout within both the monthly grid and standard list views, making it ideal for high-impact or premium gatherings.
The Events Calendar Event Display articles
This collection includes detailed tutorials on deploying embedding tools, implementing visual formatting properties, and configuring media options across your event layouts.
Configuring Event Date and Time Formats
Read more: Configuring Event Date and Time FormatsThe Events Calendar uses WordPress’s General Settings to determine which day the week starts on, the default timezone, and how dates and times are formatted. You can override any of these at the plugin level if you want your calendar to display differently from the rest of your site. WordPress General Settings These settings live…
Customizing Fonts for The Events Calendar
Read more: Customizing Fonts for The Events CalendarWe strive to have all our views, widgets, and shortcodes have a unified style so that they all just go together. Sometimes though, that style doesn’t mesh with the site’s theme. That’s why we provided a number of configurable options in the WordPress Customizer. One common request we see is the ability to change the…
Displaying Multiple Calendars by Category
Read more: Displaying Multiple Calendars by CategoryWe’re often asked if you can have multiple event calendars on your site. While there isn’t a way to make fully separate calendars on one site, you can show calendars on multiple pages on your site using Event Calendar Pro’s [tribe_events] shortcode. To learn how to use this shortcode, check out the official documentation page.…
Embed Your Calendar on Another Site
Read more: Embed Your Calendar on Another SiteDo you need to show off your events calendar on another website like Wix or Squarespace? Want to share a tailored calendar view with community event creators or collaborators? With our Calendar Embed, you can do just that — in just a few clicks. What Is the Calendar Embed? The Calendar Embed feature lets you…
How to Color Code Events by Category
Read more: How to Color Code Events by CategoryMany of our users often want their Event Categories to be designated via different colors, so their visitors can easily distinguish between categories. Luckily for you, our new Category Colors feature offers an integrated way to do just this. The feature settings let you choose colors for each category and add an optional legend at…
How to Use the Calendar Embed Block
Read more: How to Use the Calendar Embed BlockOne of the popular features of Events Calendar Pro is the [tribe_events] shortcode, which enables you to insert a calendar—with various customizable attributes—into any page or post on your website. While shortcodes are useful, determining the correct combination of attributes and implementing them accurately can be cumbersome. To make the use of this functionality easier…
Using Featured Events
Read more: Using Featured EventsThere’s a setting in The Events Calendar editor that allows you to “feature” an event. Featuring an event gives it a more prominent appearance in the calendar. For example, here’s a featured event in the calendar’s month view: And here it is in list view: Featuring an event Feature an event by selecting the “Feature…
Using Featured Images with Events
Read more: Using Featured Images with EventsYou might already be a lot more familiar with how the Featured Image works for The Events Calendar than you know. That’s because it’s built on top of the same Featured Image functionality that comes standard with WordPress. In this post, we’re going to dive into the concept of Featured Images a little deeper. We’ll…