The Premium Events Calendar is activated automatically for our Premium and Premium Plus Plan members. This is a completely different calendar than the calendar that comes with our Starter and Basic plans. Please be aware that the Standard Calendar must be deactivated for the Premium Calendar to function properly. Deactivation steps are below if needed. To verify that your Premium Calendar is installed, check your Admin menu toward the top for a section called EVENTS CALENDAR with a small RED #2 in the icon. If you see that Menu Item, your Premium Calendar is installed.

Your Calendar should be activated by default, but if it is not activated, you will need to take care of that before you can work with it. The Standard Events Calendar is located in the PlugIns Section in the category of Calendars. Hover over the PLUGINS menu and then select CALENDARS. This will bring up a list of our available calendars. If you do not have access to our more advanced calendars, you will see the option to upgrade your plan. Find the Standard Events Calendar and click the image icon to activate the plugin. You should see the menu option once the page reloads.

As we mentioned above, the Premium Calendar and the Standard Calendar can not run at the same time. Check your Admin menu and verify that you do NOT see a menu item called EVENTS CALENDAR with a Green #1 Icon. If you do, you will need to deactivate this plug in. Please be aware that if you have events in your Standard Calendar, they will no longer be accessible to you so be sure to record any old dates someplace safe so you can add them to the new calendar.

To deactivate the Standard Events Calendar, head to PLUGINS > CALENDARS and then click the DEACTIVATE link under the Standard Calendar. Again, this is only necessary if you have both calendars currently running on your website.

Once your Plugin is activated, click on SETTINGS in the Admin Menu and then click on THE EVENTS CALENDAR toward the bottom of the menu list. This will open the general preferences. Feel free to modify any settings in this section, but for the most part it should be all set. You simply need to scroll to the bottom and click SAVE CHANGES to record the settings.

If you have upgraded from a Free Plan or one of the Standard Calendar Plans, you will need to adjust your menu to point to your new Events Calendar. Your new Calendar is located at Yourdomain.com/events.

• Part 1: Click on APPEARANCE and then NAVIGATION MENUS to access the menu system.
• Part 2: Verify that you have selected your primary menus for your theme. Under “Select a menu to Edit” be sure to set MAIN NAV in the drop down menu and click SELECT. (more details here on working with Menu’s)
• Important Note. If the theme you are using does not support the Menu system, you will not be able to use the Premium Calendar. We would suggest selecting a theme that does support the menu system if possible.
• Part 3: Find the Menu option called LINKS and enter “/events” (no quotes) in the URL Field and type “Calendar” (again no quotes) in the Link Text field. Then click ADD TO MENU. This will add the Calendar option to the bottom of your Menu.
• Part 4: Move your new Calendar Menu Item to the location you prefer within your menu and click SAVE MENU.
• Part 5: If you have a previous menu item called CALENDAR that was used with the Standard Calendar, you will need to delete that. You can tell the two calendar menu items apart by looking at the right side of the menu item. The New Calendar item you just created will say CUSTOM to the right and the old calendar link will say PAGE to the right. Click the arrow on the old calendar link to expand it and then click REMOVE to delete it.

Remember to always click SAVE MENU after you make any changes. You should now have a Menu Link called CALENDAR pointing to your new Premium Events Calendar on your live site.

To access your calendar interface, click on EVENTS in your Admin Menu and you will be taken to a screen listing all of your events. If you have no events created, you will see a message that says No Events Found. To add a new event click on ADD NEW.

The first thing you will want to do when you add an event is enter the TITLE of your event. This will be the title displayed on your calendar, so keep it brief yet descriptive.

If you would like to include additional information for your event, enter the additional content in the large text box below the title. This works exactly the same as your Info and News pages, so you can format, add images, etc as you wish. This is an optional step based on your needs.

Below the Description, you will see the Time & Date options. If the event is all day long, click the checkbox indicating so. This will remove the Time selection options.

To set the date, click in the field with today’s date in it and a calendar interface will appear to allow you to select a date quickly. Click the date you wish to add the event to and the calendar will go away. Now select the start time for your event. Finally, select the end time for your event. At this time, an end time needs to be selected even if you do not have a scheduled end time.

If you would like to enter details about where an event is taking place, you can use the Event Location Details section to specify the address, etc of the event location. This is optional.

Setting an Event Category is optional, but if you do assign categories, you will have the ability to filter by “type of event” within your calendar so we do suggest creating some simple categories like “Parent Meeting”, “Restaurant Night”, “Fundraisers”, etc. If you do not have any categories specified, click ADD NEW EVENT CATEGORY and you can create a new one.

Setting a Featured Image is another optional function but this will add a small image to the popup that appears when you hover over an event on your live calendar. If you wish to set a featured image, click Set Featured Image and upload an image to use. Click USE AS FEATURED IMAGE to activate the image on your event.

Once you have entered all of the information you wish about your event, be sure to click the PUBLISH (or UPDATE) button to save your changes.

After Saving your new event, click the EVENTS menu item again and now you will see your new event listed in the events list. You can also now visit your live site and see the event in your calendar.