How do I use the Calendar as a static home page?

[Cynthia Lockley]

I have tried the following to get the calendar to show as the home page:
1. Duplicated the page.php file and named it events.php
2. Used the following code at the top of the events.php file
http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=cuBu3UXg
3. Added a new WordPress page named Events http://events.stcwdc.org/events/
4. Set the Events Calendar Settings/Template to Events Template
5. Default view for the events is Calendar
6. Set the Theme Static Home Page to Events.
But I when I go to the home page http://events.stcwdc.org/ it is just the Events Comments page
What am I missing?
I am using the Twenty Eleven theme.

[Jonah]

Hi Cynthia,

The easiest way to do this is with a PHP include that you can include in your theme’s page.php template like so:

if(is_page('home') || is_front_page()) {
include('wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/views/gridview.php');
}

I hope that helps but let me know if you have any questions.

– Jonah

[Cynthia Lockley]

Jonah,
OK. I back-tracked to the original settings for the blog:
I changed the Events Settings/Template back to Default Page Template.
I set the Theme Home page back to Your Latest Posts.
I tried putting your php code in several places in page.php but it doesn’t work. Is there a specific location in the page.php file it needs to be or is there another setting that I’ve missed?

Thanks.

[Jonah]

Hi Cynthia,

If you have the theme home page set to Your Latest Posts you’ll need to add the code above to either your theme’s index.php file or home.php – try that.

– Jonah

[Cynthia Lockley]

Thank you. It works now. http://events.stcwdc.org

[Jonah]

Glad to hear Cynthia, please let us know if you need help with anything else.

Thanks,
Jonah

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