Settings – Display

Display Settings is located under My Calendar > Settings > Display. These settings control a wide variety of characteristics about how My Calendar appears on your site. Custom templates may override these settings, however.

Enabled Views

Disabling any of these prevents that view from being rendered on the front-end of your site. If you edit the navigation of a calendar view, you can remove the links to format or date views, but the views still exist. These options will fully prevent your site from rendering the view.

Title Templates

Each view has an independent custom format for how titles are rendered. By default, most of them just render the title, but they can all be customized.

Event Display Fields

Enable PHP Templating: PHP templating has replaced legacy templates, but it is not yet turned on by default. This is because it prevents access to editing legacy templates. This will be switched in a future release.

Event Display Tabs

Each tab governs the sections that will be included on your event output for that format. If you enable PHP templates, the default templates will respect these settings.

The series of check boxes gives you the ability to display or hide a variety of different fields directly in the front end for Single Event, Single Event Popup, Card, and Mini Calendar Popup.

Settings for Single Event, Single Event Popup, Card and Mini Calendar Popup.

Choose fields to show in the various front end views. Adjusting the templates can override these settings. Unsetting all the values will bring back the default values.

If there are parts of the content you will never add to an event, you can remove them from the output. If you want some views to have excerpts and a link for more information and others to show the full information, that’s what these settings are for.

Calendar Navigation

Define a default layout for calendars. Use the arrow icons to move fields up or down or use drag and drop to rearrange the order these are seen in. Click the eye to hide fields.

These settings are the default for calendars across the site. However, any individual calendar built using the shortcode generator or widgets can have custom settings that will override these.

These settings will be overridden if you customize the field settings in the My Calendar shortcodes.

View Options

How many months of events to show at a time: Sets how many months will be shown at one time by the main calendar shortcode in list, grid, and mini view. Also configurable via the shortcode. In most cases, only one is preferred; but some use cases will benefit from multiple months.

Mapping service: My Calendar only supports Google Maps for rendering a map, but you can also use Bing Maps for links to location maps.

Default map display: Default map display can be road maps, satellite, or hybrid.

Grid Options

Calendar Links

Open links as a pop-up – Opens a pop-up card and one can click “Read more” to continue to the single event view.

Open event links in single event view – Bypasses the pop-up card and goes straight to the single event. Improves performance with large numbers of events.

Disable calendar links – This option will disable all event links in the main calendar. Useful for a minimal-information view.

Mobile View – Adjusts how the calendar will be rendered on mobile devices. It can switch to list view, switch to mini calendar view, or have no change.

Show Weekends on Calendar: If enabled, Saturday and Sunday (weekend days) will be included in the calendar grid. Also configurable in shortcodes.

List Options

Show the first event’s title and the number of events that day next to the date. In the list view, the toggle to expand events for a day is normally just the current date. Use this to show more information.

Show all event titles next to the date. Instead of just showing the first event, show all event titles for the date.

Hide past dates in initial list view. When you load the current month’s page of events in list view, past events are hidden. When navigating the calendar, these events will still be shown.

Mini Calendar Options

Target link for mini calendar dates – This URL is the destination you want links from the mini calendar to use.

Link action for mini calendar: Event pop-up, daily view page (above)

Event count indicator: The mini calendar dates have a set of dots that indicate information about the events on that date. They can be plain, just indicating how many events, or they can be color coded, indicating which categories are represented.

Upcoming Events

Globally enable Upcoming Events navigation – In My Calendar 3.6, navigation tools were added for upcoming events lists. They are not enabled by default, but can be enabled on a per-list basis. Enable this option to turn them on for all Upcoming Events lists.

Next: My Calendar > Settings > Input.