A Walkthrough of the Settings Panel
UPDATE: While the post below is accurate for version 2.0.4 and earlier, the release of The Events Calendar & Events Calendar PRO 2.0.5 brought sweeping changes to the Settings page. As such the screencast and walkthrough below are not current. If you’re on 2.0.5 or a newer release, please see this post instead.
There’s a lot you can take advantage of on the Settings page, in both The Events Calendar 2.0 and Events Calendar PRO 2.0. We walk through what those are and how to use them for making the most of this plugin in the screencast below.
As the video shows, there is a lot that can be configured on the settings page. We’ll skip over the license key information since that has been covered elsewhere — and jump into the meat of it starting with…
Default View For Events: Lets you configure whether your events appear on the frontend in grid or list view. Both views remain accessible to users viewing your calendar and they can toggle back and forth between them using easily labeled buttons.
Show Comments: A simple checkbox for enabling and disabling comments on your events. If enabled, comments will behave the same as any other WordPress comment, and their behaviors dictated by what you’ve set under Settings –> Discussion on your site’s backend.
Multiday Event Cutoff: Sometimes you have an event that, while technically spanning over the course of two days, isn’t quite appropriate to have displayed that way. A good example is a party: while you may have rented the bar out from 9 p.m. Friday until 4 a.m. Saturday, it wouldn’t make sense to have that event displayed as a Friday-Saturday party. (What if people showed up the second night hoping for a rager?!). By using this setting, the final day for any event that ends on or before the time specified in the dropdown will not appear in grid view.
Enable Google Maps: Check this box if you want to enable the ability to display an embedded Google Map within your event listings. The map can be controlled on a post-by-post by basis, and will display the venue location using the Google Maps API.
Events URL slug/Single Event URL slug: These control where on your site the event calendar lives. The first is the broader calendar; if it shows /events (which is what it defaults to with pretty permalinks enabled), this means that visiting /events on the frontend of your site will bring up the calendar. Change this to whatever you desire but note that it cannot conflict with the Single Event URL slug. Examples of the slug as it’ll appear with relation to your site’s full URL is presented for each.
Debug: When this box is checked, debug information will be logged to your server PHP error log.
Events Template: Provides a dropdown from which you can adjust the calendar’s appearance on the frontend. The plugin comes with template options of it’s own, and most plugins bring their own as well. Select a template from the dropdown, save and review the frontend of your site to see which works best for your layout.
Add HTML before/after calendar: Any information — text or HTML — that you’d like to display above or below the calendar can generally be added right here. Make sure to check your work on the frontend after saving, since there is a chance to make your calendar ugly if using this without being careful.
Customize defaults: After the box to enable these has been checked, customized defaults can save time on the event creation side by keeping you from having to manually re-enter venue/organizer details. Configure as many or as few details as you wish and upon saving, any new event created will have those fields pre-populated until you say otherwise.
Additional fields: We’ve covered this elsewhere, so I won’t go into it here.
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Any of the information above unclear? Let us know in the comments and we’ll do what we can to clarify.
Maybe this is a stupid question, but how do I add ‘/events’ to my site’s navigation? I don’t see this ‘page’ within my page list, but it must exist at some level. Any help?
To add the events calendar to your site, simply go the the wordpress admin menu > appearance > menu. Check your screen settings (tab at top right) and check the events box if it isn’t. Then in the events panel you can drag the item called “events” into your menu.
I have two installations of the non-pro version. Same install. Copied the same folders. How come in one install, I have the option to set the slug, but in the other install, I don’t have that option available to me. What’s going on?
Nevermind. I realized just, as I clicked post, that my slugs are disabled in the wordpress preferences in one install. That’s why they aren’t showing up. You can disregard these two comments.
I am having the same problem as Shane, tried your solution, when I drag “events” in the menu, the box does not stick
I was finally able to install it, but when I try to make that page the Front Page, the calendar disappears
I am really confused here, since the page is not showing in the “pages”, there is no way to make the calendar the front page, am I correct?
I have created a custom theme and I am trying to work the events calendar into one of my pages….is there a tutorial on how to do this?
Hey Simon, unfortunately there is not a tutorial on this but you can try searching our forums or post your question there and someone will respond.
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How do i set revisions on the events page???
Hey Felix, you’ll need to add this to your functions.php file:
add_post_type_support( 'tribe_events', array('title', 'editor', 'revisions') );
Add whatever else you want the events post type to support. For reference, here is the codex doco: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_post_type_support