The Events Calendar Extending Events

This article covers all settings found under Events → Settings → Display that relate to how calendar pages are structured, styled, and what additional content appears around them. Navigate there to access the settings described below. Default Stylesheet Found at: Events → Settings → Display → Calendar → Calendar Template This setting determines which CSS…

This article covers two closely related problems: template overrides that aren’t taking effect, and display or layout issues that appear after a theme or plugin update. Many of the diagnostic steps apply to both, with additional sections for the causes and fixes that are specific to post-update breakage. Common Symptoms Here are the most common…

In The Events Calendar, especially when working with recurring events or the custom tables system, you may encounter an ID that looks like a Post ID but is much larger (e.g., 10000114). This is a provisional ID, and it refers to a specific occurrence of an event, not the parent event post itself. This guide…

When we refer to “snippets” in this context, we mean small pieces of PHP code. There are three basic ways to add these PHP snippets to your WordPress site: Other than knowing where to implement a code snippet, there are additional things to take into consideration when adding custom code for your calendar to your…

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The Events Calendar features a responsive design, which is a fancy way if saying it adjusts its layout according to the size of the screen it is being viewed on, like a smartphone or tablet. While it works smoothly in most cases, there may be situations where you want to adjust the responsiveness, say to…

The Events Calendar’s template system provides several PHP entry points for injecting content into, modifying, or completely bypassing the default calendar templates — without editing the template files themselves. This article covers all three layers: before/after hooks, output filters, and the template hierarchy filter. All of these techniques work with the Tribe__Template class, which handles…

The Events Calendar and Event Tickets include a built-in REST API that lets you read, create, update, and delete event data from outside WordPress — whether from a mobile app, an external site, a script, or another service. This article covers what a REST API is, how the TEC endpoints are structured, how to make…