Adding full month calendar view to WordPress Page

[Alan]

Hello,

This is the second time I am trying to add this topic so bear with me. I need to be able to display the full month calendar view on one of my WP pages.

I searched everywhere for a solution to this issue and I understand that there is no out-of-the-box fix for this (from the plugin devs), but I have installed Event Rocket as was mentioned in one other discussion and this unfortunately does not fix the issue.

The problem I have is that my custom theme design uses featured images as primary header graphics so the client can easily edit/update pages. Unfortunately, the Events Calendar Pro plugin does not let you edit the actual “events” page so you can designate a themed template file. I have already tried to create a custom theme file for the month view template (and put that file into my /tribe-events/ directory but it still does not display the page design as I need.

I tired to add the custom code into the “header” portion of the Display page on the plugin, but because the code at that stage is nested, it doesn’t display properly.

Can anyone provide some guidance or advice on how to add the full month calendar view to a WP page? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you!

[George]

Hey @Alan,

I’m sorry about all the trouble you’ve been having with this!

In your post you wrote this:

Unfortunately, the Events Calendar Pro plugin does not let you edit the actual “events” page so you can designate a themed template file.

Just to be 100% clear, are you talking about the “Events template” option in Events > Settings > Display in your site’s wp-admin?

And if so, do you mean to say that you have tried every single template option for this option and none of them have worked?

If not, I would recommend trying every single available template for this “Events template” option. One provided by your theme should work well here…

If not, then unfortunately the best solution that I can think of would be to create a custom page template in your theme → https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/template-files-section/page-template-files/page-templates/#creating-custom-page-templates-for-global-use

If you base this new template off your theme’s existing template file which includes the featured-image integration you describe here, then you should be able to build something quite close to what you want. Once this template is created, then, you’d choose it as the aforementioned “Events template” option in Events > Settings > Display.

I hope that helps! 😀

George

[Alan]

Hi George,

Thank you very much for your help. Thanks to your approach I was able to resolve the issue.

I created a template file for Events that called a specific header file that uses a hard-coded header graphic for the header area. This allowed me to keep the positioning of my nav area and display the full calendar month view – thank you so much!

[George]

Glad to hear it Alan, thanks for providing a lot of detail in your original reply which made it easier to understand your problems.

Keep a good backup of your custom templates and such, and open another thread here anytime if other issues arise…until then, best of luck with your site! 🙂

— George

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