Adding Full Calendar to a page

[Melanie]

Hi – I’ve just purchased Events Calendar Pro and Events Tickets Plus – I’m not sure if I’m missing something obvious, but how do I add the calendar to a WordPress page?? I can see the plugin automatically creates a page, but I can’t get that created page to display all my page Builder options so it blends in with the site.

This is the page that’s been created by Events Calendar Pro http://www.wherepigsfly.org/tours-and-events/ but I need to add this calendar to an existing formatted page here http://www.wherepigsfly.org/events-and-tours2/ I can only find the Shortcode for the “Mini Calendar”. Unless I’m missing something obvious this seems like a huge limitation for a paid plugin.

I look forward to hearing from you and my apologies if I’ve missed something simple …

Regards
Melanie

[George]

Hey @Melanie,

Thanks for reaching out!

1. Some Backstory

You cannot put The Events Calendar’s main calendar view into a page. The generated /events URL itself is not a page, either.

Let me explain:

The nature of a calendar means that a “static page” is simply not a feasible technological approach to building a calendar. Instead, we make the /events URL generate on your site and this serves more like a “Feed” URL, or an API Endpoint, if you’re familiar with that term.

This allows for great flexibility in terms of paging through months, weeks, days, etc., which using a Page in WordPress simply does not allow.

2. Using the Custom Template

Now that I’ve explained what’s going on here, I would like to try to get your page builder options working. They might work, however I wold like to point out that “page builders” are not generally well-made code and generally do break WordPress coding standards in many, many ways. So as an example, if the suggestion I am about to share does not help, the limitation is arising from your page builder, not from The Events Calendar.

That suggestion itself would be as follows:

• Head to Events → Settings → Display in your site’s wp-admin.
• Look for an option here called “Events Template”.
• Try out every single template available here! Try one template, then save the changes, then check out the page builder functionality on your site. Any progress? If not, then go back to settings and choose a different template, and repeat until you’ve tried everything.

I hope this information and these steps help!

If not, and this discrepancy is a deal-breaker for your site, then:
1. Sorry for the trouble and the time spent here!
2. We are happy to issue a refund immediately. If you do the steps above and the page builder is still not working on The Events Calendar pages, you can get a refund by doing these steps → https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/refund-policy/

Sincerely,
George

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