Placing the Calendar on Your Site – Partners

This article is for site administrators and web teams responsible for deciding how an Evvnt events calendar appears on a publisher website. It covers the available embed options, how widget types differ, and how customization settings affect the calendar's appearance and behavior on your pages.

See a live example of our calendar at evvnt.com/events

Whether you're placing a calendar on a dedicated events page, adding a compact widget to a homepage or sidebar, or embedding a single featured event — the options available in your Evvnt admin give you control over what visitors see and how it fits your site's layout.

What You Can Place on Your Site

Evvnt provides two primary embed types for publisher sites, plus a single-event option for editorial use. Each serves a different layout purpose.

Full Calendar Widget

The full calendar widget is the main events calendar experience. It displays your complete event listings in a browsable, searchable format — typically placed on a dedicated events page or events section of your site. The full calendar includes category filtering, date navigation, and links to individual event detail pages.

Content Widget

The content widget is a compact version of the calendar designed to fit into tighter spaces. It works well placed vertically in a sidebar rail or horizontally as an element on a landing page or homepage. The content widget displays three or more upcoming events — the exact number depends on the space you allocate to it in your configuration. It's a good option for driving event discovery from high-traffic pages without dedicating an entire page to the calendar.

Single Event Embed

For editorial or promotional use, a single event embed showcases one specific event inline on any page. This is useful for featuring an event within an article, a sponsored content block, or a curated landing page. See Showcase an Event with the Single Event Embed Widget for setup details.

Getting Your Embed Code

Embed codes for the full calendar and content widget are available in your Evvnt admin under the Get Code area. This is where you select which widget type you need, configure display options, and copy the code snippet to place in your site's HTML.

The Get Code interface also provides options for adjusting the widget's behavior — such as which categories are displayed and how events are sorted. For a full walkthrough of the embed code process, see Get Code: Embed the Evvnt Calendar on Your Website.

Configuring Your Content Security Policy (CSP)

If your site uses a Content Security Policy, you'll need to allowlist Evvnt's domains so the calendar can load its scripts and styles. Add *.evvnt.com to both your script-src and style-src directives:

script-src 'self' ... *.evvnt.com;
style-src 'self' ... *.evvnt.com;

Where to make this change depends on your setup — your web server config, CDN or WAF rules (such as Cloudflare or Azure Front Door), or a CMS security plugin such as Wordfence.

How Customization Affects What Visitors See

Several admin settings control the calendar's visual appearance and the content it displays. These settings are configured in your Evvnt admin and apply to the calendar and widgets as they appear on your site.

Themes and Branding

Your calendar's visual identity — logo, color palette, and front-end labels — is managed through the Themes settings. Theme choices apply across both the full calendar and content widget, keeping the look consistent wherever the calendar appears on your site. See Themes and Branding: Logo, Colors, and Front-End Labels for full configuration options.

Categories and Content Filtering

The categories enabled for your calendar determine which types of events appear in your widgets. If your site focuses on a specific content vertical — such as music, food, or family events — category settings let you control what's shown without manual curation. You can also create category-specific calendar views that display only a subset of your events, useful for section pages or themed landing pages. See Publishing Settings: Control Event Categories and Allowed Content for details on managing categories.

Event Statuses and Display Logic

Not every event in your system appears on the public calendar. Events move through statuses — such as pending, approved, and rejected — and only events with an approved status are visible to your site visitors. Your event management workflow and keyword filtering rules determine which events reach the public-facing calendar. Understanding this logic is helpful when evaluating what content will populate your widgets after launch.

Placement Recommendations by Site Type

The best embed strategy depends on the role events play on your site. Here are common approaches for different publisher scenarios.

News and Media Sites

For news publishers, events are typically a complement to editorial content rather than the primary focus. A common approach is a dedicated events page using the full calendar widget, linked from the main navigation. Adding a content widget in a sidebar rail on article pages or the homepage keeps events visible across the site without competing with news content. Category-specific widgets can surface relevant events alongside topical sections — a food section page showing only food and dining events, for example.

Event-Focused and Community Sites

Sites where events are the core offering benefit from making the full calendar the centerpiece — often as the homepage itself or its most prominent element. The content widget can still be useful on secondary pages or in email newsletter templates to preview upcoming highlights. Because the full calendar is doing the heavy lifting, theme customization and category organization are especially important to keep the experience polished and navigable.

Niche and Vertical-Specific Sites

Publishers focused on a specific content area — such as a performing arts site, a local food blog, or a family activities guide — often benefit from tighter category filtering so the calendar only shows relevant events. A full calendar widget with narrowed categories works as the primary events experience, and a content widget highlighting the next few upcoming events fits well on the homepage or in a sidebar. The catchment area settings are also worth reviewing to make sure the geographic scope matches the site's audience.

WordPress Sites

If your site runs on WordPress, the Evvnt Calendar WordPress Plugin provides an alternative to manual embed code placement. The plugin handles the calendar embed within your WordPress page structure. See Evvnt Calendar WordPress Plugin for installation and setup.