Pretty Google Calendar

Installation

1. Upload the pretty-google-calendar folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Activate Pretty Google Calendar through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress dashboard.
3. Obtain your Google Calendar API key (see below)
4. Add the API key to Settings -> Pretty Google Calendar Settings
5. Use the shortcode [pretty_google_calendar gcal="calendarID@group.calendar.google.com"] directly in your page or post content.

Shortcode Options

gcal="CalendarID,CalendarID"

Calendar ID of the desired google calendar (note: must be set to ‘Make available to public’. To display multiple calendars, separate ID’s by a comma. (Note: calendars must fall under same API access.))

locale="en"

Sets the locale for calendar. Defaults to “en”.

list_type="listCustom"

Sets the list type. Options: listDay, listWeek, listMonth, listYear, and listCustom. (Also accepts day, week, month, year, and custom).
Defaults to listCustom for backward compatibility.

Note: listCustom allows you to set the number of days you want to display from the current date. Whereas listMonth shows
all the events from this month (including past events), list_type="custom" custom_days="28" will show the next 28 days
across months.

custom_days="28"

Sets the number of days to show in the list tab. Defaults to 28. Only used with listCustom.

custom_list_button="list"

Sets the label for the listCustom button. Defaults to “list”.

views="dayGridMonth, listCustom"

Sets the view types available. If only one view is provided, no view switch buttons will be shown. Defaults to “dayGridMonth, listCustom”.

initial_view="dayGridMonth"

Sets the default view to be displayed when opening the page. Defaults to “dayGridMonth”.

enforce_listview_on_mobile="true"

Sets the change to the list view behavior on small screens. Options: “true” and “false”. Defaults to “true”. This option has no effect if there is no list view declared in the “views” option.

show_today_button="true"

Sets the visibility of the “Today” button. Options: “true” and “false”. Defaults to “true”.

show_title="true"

Sets the visibility of the calendar title. Options: “true” and “false”. Defaults to “true”.

id_hash=random

Sets the ID hash for a calendar. If you have multiple calendars on a page and need to style them, you can set this to a permanent code. Otherwise, it’ll randomly generate each load. (Note: as of v2.0.0 this can only be alphanumeric.)

use_tooltip="true"

Migrating from global setting for individual calendar styling. Whether the floating tooltip for event pops up on click.

no_link="true"

Migrating from global setting for individual calendar styling. Whether to disable link to calendar.google.com on click.

fc_args = JSON string ((EXPERIMENTAL))

Allows you to override or impliment just about any FullCalendar argument (with some exception). For example: fc_args='{"weekNumbers":"true", "eventTextColor":"red"}'

Note: any argument that contains [] will fail due to WordPress’ parsing of shortcodes. No workaround currently.
Note: this is experimental – things may break.

Styling Multiple Calendars

As of v1.7.0, each calendar gets it’s own CSS selector: pgcal-event-# where the # is the order of the listed calendar (starting with 0). So if you have two calendars in one, you can use pgcal-event-0 to style the first, and pgcal-event-1 to style the second calendar.

Obtaining Google Calendar API Key

1. The good folks at WPBeginner have a comprehensive writeup: https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-add-google-calendar-in-wordpress/

(Although in the API Restrictions Section, you may need “Don’t Restrict Key” selected. YMMV.)

Make your Google Calendar public:

1. In the Google Calendar interface, locate the “My calendars” area on the left.
2. Hover over the calendar you need and click the downward arrow.
3. A menu will appear. Click “Share this Calendar”.
4. Check “Make this calendar public”.
5. Make sure “Share only my free/busy information” is unchecked.
6. Click “Save”.

Obtain your Google Calendar’s ID:

1. In the Google Calendar interface, locate the “My calendars” area on the left.
2. Hover over the calendar you need and click the downward arrow.
3. A menu will appear. Click “Calendar settings”.
4. In the “Calendar Address” section of the screen, you will see your Calendar ID. It will look something like “abcd1234@group.calendar.google.com” this is the value you enter into the shortcode.