Display Settings

The Appearance tab controls how events look across the site: date and time formatting, the default event view, which views are available, calendar settings, recurring event configuration, and single-event page options.

Go to Eventonomy → Settings → Appearance to access these options. (This was the Display tab before the settings screen was consolidated into seven tabs; the old ?tab=display link still resolves here.)

What You Will Learn

• How to configure date and time formats
• How to set the default event view and enable/disable views
• How to configure the month calendar
• How to control the recurring-event horizon
• What single-event and card display options are available

Date & Time

Setting	Default	Description
Date format	Site setting	PHP date format string. Defaults to your WordPress site date format. Example: F j, Y for “July 18, 2026”.
Time format	Site setting	PHP time format string. Example: g:i a for “6:00 pm”.
Week starts on	Site setting	First day of the week shown in the month calendar.
Pre-fill the end time of new events + Default event duration (minutes)	On, 60	When creating a new event, the end time is filled in as the start plus this many minutes. Untick to leave the end time empty. Capped at 10080 (one week).

Event Views

Setting	Default	Description
Default view	grid	The view visitors see when they land on the Events page (/events/). Options: Grid, List, Month, Upcoming, Week (Pro), Day (Pro). Week and Day are shown but not selectable until Pro is active.
Show a view switcher on the archive	On	Adds view-toggle buttons above the events list so visitors can switch between enabled views.
Enabled views	Grid, List, Month	Tick the views visitors can switch between. Free offers Grid, List, Month and Upcoming (a new site starts with the first three; tick Upcoming to add it); Pro adds Week and Day to the same list. At least one must remain on, and the list falls back to Grid if you untick everything.
Events per page	10	Number of events shown per page in list and grid views. Clearing it or entering 0 restores the default.
Archive layout	grid	Fallback layout when no explicit view is selected: Grid or List.
Show past events	Off	When on, the events archive includes events whose start date has passed.
Only show recent past events + Days of past events to show	Off	When “Show past events” is on, tick this to limit how many days back to include. Unticked shows every past event.

Calendar View

The Calendar view feature card enables the month calendar block. Toggle it on or off to show or hide the calendar view site-wide.

Setting	Default	Description
Max events shown per day (month view)	3	Caps the number of event entries visible per calendar cell. Overflow is indicated by a “+N more” link.
Highlight today	On	Highlights the current day’s cell in the month calendar.
Day starts at	8	First hour shown in the week/day hour-grid (0 to 23). Pro only.
Day ends at	22	Last hour shown in the week/day hour-grid (0 to 23). Pro only.
Time slot size	30	Granularity of the week/day grid: 15, 30, or 60 minutes. Pro only.

Pro - Day starts at, Day ends at, and Time slot size apply to the Week and Day grids, which require Eventonomy Pro. Without Pro the three fields are visible but locked.

Week & Day grid caps (Pro)

With Pro active, two more fields appear inside the same Calendar view card. They stop a busy day from producing an unreadable wall of blocks in the Week and Day grids.

Setting	Default	Description
Limit events per time slot + Events per time slot	Off	How many events one time slot shows before the rest are collapsed into “+X more”. Unticked: no limit. Week view also never shows more than three side-by-side columns; a bigger crowd ends in a “+N more” block that opens that day.
Limit events per day + Events per day (all slots)	Off	How many events one day column shows in total. Unticked: no limit.

Recurring Events

The Recurring events feature card enables or disables the recurrence system site-wide.

Setting	Default	Description
Expand recurring events up to (months ahead)	12	How far ahead the occurrence materializer generates instances. Range: 1 to 60 months. Increasing this value generates more rows in evnm_occurrences; decreasing it stops generating distant dates until the horizon catches up.

Single Event & Cards

Setting	Default	Description
Single event layout	Ticket (new installs)	The layout every event page uses unless an event overrides it: Ticket (identity rail and a ticket you register on) or Classic (a cover across the top). Sites upgrading from an earlier version keep Classic. Both fit any theme width and handle online and recurring events. See Single event layouts.
Timezone display	Event time zone	How event times are shown to visitors. Event time zone shows the event’s own time with its abbreviation. Visitor’s time zone shows each visitor the time in their own device time zone. Both shows the event time, plus the visitor’s own time on a second line when it differs. It applies to the event page, a recurring event’s Upcoming dates, and event cards. Display only: times are stored in UTC, and emails and calendar files always use the event time zone. New events start in the WordPress site time zone (Settings > General); the organizer can change it per event.
Show organizer on the single event	On	Shows the organizer name below the event title on the single-event page.
Show who’s going (avatars + count)	On	Social proof near the registration area: recent attendee avatars and the going count. Names appear only as hover/screen-reader labels; emails are never shown. Turn off for privacy-sensitive events.
Show a location map on the single event	Off	Shows an embedded OpenStreetMap plus an “Open in Maps” link when the event has coordinates (e.g. imported, or geocoded by Pro’s Maps & geocoding under Connections); an address without coordinates shows only the link.
Show comments on single events	Off	Renders the WordPress theme comment section on the event page. Comments must also be enabled on the Event page itself (Edit Page → Discussion).
Show image on event cards	On	Displays the cover image on event cards in Grid view.
Card excerpt length (words)	20	Number of words shown as the event description excerpt on cards.
Use my theme’s colour for buttons and links	Off	Off (recommended): Eventonomy uses its own green, checked for readable contrast on every surface. On: buttons and links adopt your theme’s primary colour instead - which is not contrast-checked, so after switching it on, look at a Register button and confirm the text is still readable.
Default cover image URL	(empty)	A fallback banner shown on events that have no cover image of their own. Paste an image URL (for example from your Media Library). Left empty, cover-less events fall through to the automatic coloured placeholder.

What’s Next?

Configure the event URL structure.

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