Category: Admin

The event search available in My Calendar is a simple text search, with no filtering or bonus search tools. My Calendar Pro adds options for a richer search that makes it easier to narrow down what a user is looking for. The advanced search has a dedicated Page on your site that will be added […]

When you create a new event, automatically cross post it to your blog as a post. Blog New Event Settings The settings for blogging new events are all about mapping your event data to become a post. Blog Post Content: What content from your event should get submitted as the post content? Options include the […]

My Calendar supports custom fields to collect event information that isn’t natively supported by My Calendar. Since My Calendar Pro 3.0.0, you can create your custom fields directly in the admin. Custom field types supported include text, email, number, date, time, url, tel, select, checkbox, radio, textarea, and hidden fields. Custom fields can also be […]

Any site with My Calendar Pro installed can be set up to share events with another site that has My Calendar Pro installed. For security purposes, there are a number of controls in place to restrict how that works. You can enable the REST API from the My Calendar Pro settings. By default, the REST […]

Resource Links Review pending events: By default, events submitted via the public submission forms are assigned “Pending” status, and require approval for publication. This link points to the My Calendar Events Management screen with ‘Pending’ events shown. Event submissions page: Links to your currently defined submissions form. It’s not required to use the primary submissions […]

The reverse of “Blog new events”, this feature allows you to generate a calendar event while creating other post types. Event from Posts Settings Support post types: All public post types are available; check the post types where you’d like to be able to create new events. Events are drafts: Check ‘Events from Posts are […]

The My Calendar submissions form builder allows you to generate heavily customized forms with My Calendar’s event fields. You can use the up and down arrows to modify the order of fields, customize labels, set default category or location, and choose which fields are included. Any custom fields created in the Custom Field editor will […]

Generate Shortcodes – Submissions Forms is located under My Calendar > Shortcodes > Submission Forms. The My Calendar Pro submissions form builder allows you to generate heavily customized forms with My Calendar’s event fields. You can use the up and down arrows to modify the order of fields, customize labels, set default category or location, […]

Some fields can be configured as required fields for all submission forms. When enabled, any form created will automatically have these fields added and made required for submission. By default, no event fields are required except for the start date. If you require additional information from your visitors, use these checkboxes to set some fields […]

Import Settings Restrict event import by time: If you have an import file that contains a wide range of events, you can restrict your import to a subset of those events based on date. Ignore events in the past Ignore events more than a month in the past Ignore events more than a year in […]

Manual payments allow you to accept payments via any method – cash, check, crypto, or alternative online payment – and use those payments to provide event keys. You can also use them to grant free keys at any time, to any user. Quantity: How many events can be submitted using this key. Each event submitted […]

My Calendar Pro ships with support for multilingual event listings. If you’re offering events in more than one language, you can mark the language for each event. This is primarily about screen reader accessibility; when an event is marked as being in an alternate language, the output HTML will be wrapped in a container with […]

My Calendar Pro produces a simple report showing sales, dates, and how many times a given key has been used. As a key is used, the remaining uses will be shown. You can edit any payment to grant additional event licenses or adjust information about the payment: Quantity: The number of event submissions currently available […]

Event submission is a free service by difficult. There are many membership plugins that can be used to control access to your site or to pages of your site for a fee, but if you simply want to grant a variety of users access to pay to submit events, My Calendar Pro allows that. Check […]

If your site is a client, then the REST API is not enabled, but the user interface for adding your events to other site’s is enabled. You will have an interface for adding endpoints, or URLs that this site can attempt to send events to. Settings The API key entered for endpoints must be that […]

For sites operating as an API server, you have to configure the clients that you are allowing access to post events. Only clients that match these client URLs and pass the API key you define will be allowed to post events. Settings API Key: You can set the API key for your site. This is […]

Advanced Search Settings is located under My Calendar > My Calendar Pro > Advanced search. Generate an Advanced Event Search page by clicking the “Save Settings” button on the bottom of the page.

Blog New Events Settings is located under My Calendar > My Calendar Pro > Blog New Events. Click the checkbox for “Copy new events as posts” when you want to cross post the event to your blog as a post. Post New Events as Post settings The settings for blogging new events are all about mapping […]

Custom Fields Settings is located under My Calendar > My Calendar Pro > Custom Fields. My Calendar supports custom fields to collect event information that isn’t natively supported by My Calendar. Since My Calendar Pro 3.0.0, you can create your custom fields directly in the admin. Custom field types supported include text, email, number, date, time, url, tel, select, checkbox, radio, textarea, and hidden fields. Custom fields can […]

Events from Posts Settings is located under My Calendar > My Calendar Pro > Events from Posts. The reverse of “Blog New Events”, this feature allows you to generate a calendar event while creating other post types. Enable event creation from posts by checking “Post events from posts” Event from Posts Settings Supported Post TypesAll public […]

Importer is located under My Calendar > My Calendar Pro > Importer. Import Events Settings Restrict event import by time If you have an import file that contains a wide range of events, you can restrict your import to a subset of those events based on date. Import Events from iCal format (.ics) Import to Category […]

License Settings is located under My Calendar > My Calendar Pro > License.

Notifications Settings is located under My Calendar > My Calendar Pro > Notifications. General Settings Messages sent to administrators There are two types of notifications that are sent: one for newly submitted events, and a second if a submitted event is edited. Each option has a separate subject and message text. The new event notification […]

Other Settings is located under My Calendar > My Calendar Pro > Other Settings. Enable language selector on events – Multilingual Events My Calendar Pro ships with support for multilingual event listings. If you’re offering events in more than one language, you can mark the language for each event. This is primarily about screen reader accessibility; […]

Payment Settings is located under My Calendar > My Calendar Pro > Payments. Event submission is a free service by default. There are many membership plugins that can be used to control access to your site or to pages of your site for a fee, but if you simply want to grant a variety of […]

REST API Settings is located under My Calendar > My Calendar Pro > REST API.By default REST API features are disabled. Any site with My Calendar Pro installed can be set up to share events with another site that has My Calendar Pro installed. For security purposes, there are a number of controls in place to […]

Submissions Settings is located under My Calendar > My Calendar Pro > Submissions. Event Submissions Settings No pending events/Review pending eventsWhen there is one or more draft events. “No pending events” will change to “Review pending” events. By default, events submitted via the public submission forms are assigned “Pending” status, and require approval for publication. The […]

General settings Messages sent to administrators There are two types of notifications that are sent: one for newly submitted events, and a second if a submitted event is edited. Each option has a separate subject and message text. The new event notification is sent whenever an event is posted using the front-end submissions form. The […]

As of version 2.1.0, the submission form requires users to be logged-in to submit events as a default. Previously, it was open to the general public by default. The third setting allows finer control over who has the ability to add events to your calendar. The ‘Add Events’ capability is configured in the My Calendar […]