{"id":688,"date":"2021-11-04T04:35:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T09:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/docs.joedolson.com\/my-calendar\/?p=688"},"modified":"2025-12-23T18:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T00:35:09","slug":"my-calendar-category-icons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/docs.joedolson.com\/my-calendar\/my-calendar-category-icons\/","title":{"rendered":"Category icons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Category icons can be found under My Calendar > Categories. Category Editor > Category Icon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Screenshot
My Calendar: Click the ? to have a popup show a list of icons.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Click the Help link (blue circled ?)<\/strong> to show a list of available icons that can be added to a category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Screenshot
My Calendar > Categories > ? > Icon List.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Go through the list and note the name of the icon you would like to use. Close the popup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Category Icon field begin to write the name of the icon. E.g. anchor. Select the icon. We will see the full name anchor.svg<\/code> show in the Category Icon field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Selecting
Category Icon drop down.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After having clicked Add Category. If the Category Settings option “Hide Category icons” is not checked then we will see the icons in the Category List. (Note: <\/strong>If “Hide Category icons” is enabled, the interface to select icons is also hidden.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"List
My Calendar > Categories – Category List and Category Settings.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Icons will be seen on the front end in the calendar and in the list of categories below the calendar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Screenshot
Showing icons in the front end calendar view.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The icon is also seen in the single event view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Icon
Front end single event view. Icon seen next to title.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To hide the icon click the checkbox for “Hide Category Icons” in the Category Settings<\/a> section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Category icons can be found under My Calendar > Categories. Category Editor > Category Icon. Click the Help link (blue circled ?) to show a list of available icons that can be added to a category. Go through the list and note the name of the icon you would like to use. Close the popup. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-categories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.joedolson.com\/my-calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.joedolson.com\/my-calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.joedolson.com\/my-calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docs.joedolson.com\/my-calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docs.joedolson.com\/my-calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/docs.joedolson.com\/my-calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":693,"href":"https:\/\/docs.joedolson.com\/my-calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions\/693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.joedolson.com\/my-calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docs.joedolson.com\/my-calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docs.joedolson.com\/my-calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}