Show all (or certain) events publicly as Busy

[Steve]

We are trying to use ECP to show a list of availabilities by showing when we are booked/busy with other events. We don’t want the event titles to be public, merely placeholders that say “Booked” or Busy or something like that. This is a feature of Google Calendar when showing publicly so I was curious if this is possible to do with ECP, and if so you could point me in the right direction for how to implement this. Thanks!

[Andras]

Hey Steve,

That is a great question there.

There is no built-in busy/public feature in our plugins, but it could be done with some custom development and template override.

For template overrides check out our Themer’s Guide – https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/themers-guide/

For the month view I would create an override for this file:

wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/src/views/month/single-event.php

For signaling busy/free you could either use a custom field or a category.

Then, in the above file (in the template override) you can do a check if the event has the specific custom field and value or if it is in the specific category and based on that either display the event title or just “Busy”.

You can create template overrides for the other views as well, if needed.

Does this help you get started?

Andras

[Steve]

That’s helps a great deal, thank you!

[Andras]

You’re very welcome Steve!

Since this is marked resolved I am going to close this ticket, but if you need anything else related to this topic or another please create a new ticket and we’ll be happy to help.

Cheers,
Andras

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