Customizing Calendar Plugin for our client

[Sahil]

Hi,

Our client is the education vertical and is one of the largest art university in North America.
They have many departments that have their own websites and blogs; we are developing their main website blog and want to add a calendar function that will pull info from each of their departments’ website and then display in one page
Just want to know how customizable this plugin is? We are comparing Time.ly and The Events Calendar plugin for our requirement.
Let me know if this plugin will work for our requirements or should we look at other available options

Regards,
Sahil

[George]

Hi Sahil,

Thanks for reaching out.

It’s a bit difficult to answer the question, “how customizable are your plugins”, because this really depends on the development skills of the customizer and the resources you’re willing to devote to those customizations. In theory there’s basically no limit to how customizable our plugins are — the code is GPL-licensed, for instance, and so you can totally rewrite vast chunks of the plugin if you really wanted to for your project.

There are a few things to note though:

1. We cannot help with custom coding in any way, as elaborated upon here: https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/what-support-is-provided-for-license-holders/
2. We cannot provide any customer support whatsoever for customized code; if you customize a template and that template breaks after an update, for example, that’s not something we can help with.

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With all these caveats and notes out of the way, I’ll try to answer your question a bit more usefully. 🙂

Our plugins are very customizable when it comes to front-end templates, because of their templates system which you can read about here: https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/themers-guide/

Our plugins also have a huge number of useful filters and actions that you can hook into for customization — there’s no singular reference of all of these hooks, because there is simply too many of them, but if you do a “search” or grep within our plugin files for any instance of the term apply_filters( or do_action( you will find all of our plugin’s filters and actions, respectively.

In regards to the specific sort of thing you mentioned in your post here, the only way I can think of this being truly implemented would be to have each site have its own instance of The Events Calendar. Then, on the “main site” that pulls in events from all those other sites, have The Events Calendar with Event Aggregator activated. Then set up Event Aggregator to import the calendar feeds from those other sites — you may have to do the imports manually, unfortunately, but this is the best way I can think of doing this.

I hope this information is helpful!

Cheers,
George

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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