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Hi, I have some questions. We currently have a very manual and labour intensive calendar on our website. I’m liking your calendar format. I’m thinking of installing a wp site on the server to act as our cms for multiple contributers and then display content from wp on the main site. My questions for now:
– Can I embed a calendar I’ve created using your plugin on our website. An iframe may do the trick but I’d rather a more robust option.
– Can I have different categories display as different colours on the monthly calendar? Basically, we want all courses of one type to be green, then courses of another type to be orange, etc. We want people to see course types at a glance by colour.
– Assuming we go with your plugin for our course calendar, can we then create other calendars for other topics other than courses? Note: We would buy the pro version.
– When someone clicks on an event and the new window opens, can we have a banner across the top that says the topic they’re in? We’d like these popup pages to be branded.
I think that’s it for now. Thanks in advance for your help.
Howdy Nelson,
It’s nice to meet you. Those are some great questions, I will do my best to break it down.
Can I embed a calendar I’ve created using your plugin on our website. An iframe may do the trick but I’d rather a more robust option.
I can understand wanting a more robust solution. Our calendar currently does not offer any native embed solution beyond iframes. A few folks have requested this feature and it is something we are looking into, but even then the solution will likely ultimately be a streamlined iframe.
Can I have different categories display as different colours on the monthly calendar? Basically, we want all courses of one type to be green, then courses of another type to be orange, etc. We want people to see course types at a glance by colour.
That is absolutely possible. There is an excellent free addon that does just this: The Events Calendar Category Colors
Assuming we go with your plugin for our course calendar, can we then create other calendars for other topics other than courses? Note: We would buy the pro version.
You are limited to one calendar per site. Each category in that calendar can be clicked on, and you can view events only from that category in all the various ways you can view events in all categories. But, since you are already categorizing your course calendar from the sound of it, perhaps using linking directly to category pages to segregate the calendar is not quite what you’re after. You could use WP’ multisite tool to create more than one site and thus calendar. Our plugin fully supports that.
When someone clicks on an event and the new window opens, can we have a banner across the top that says the topic they’re in? We’d like these popup pages to be branded.
By default, when someone clicks on an event they are taken to the event details page on your site in the same window. On that page you will find all the details for the event, the time, organizer, and such. One of the details can be an “Event URL”, which might be a link to a separate website dedicated to that event. If you wanted them to not fully leave the site when clicking this link, you could instead link to an banner service that has your banner at the top and event details at the bottom.
Does that all make sense? Does it sound like it will work for you?
Cheers!
– Brook
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