What appears, and what it says

Which events appear

The calendar collects every published Venuera event whose status is live or scheduled, and shows it on the dates it actually runs. Single-date, multi-day, online and venue events all appear – there is nothing to opt in to.

Recurring events are the exception worth understanding. When the Recurring Events add-on is active, a series is expanded so that every occurrence gets its own date on the calendar – a class that runs each Tuesday appears on every Tuesday, not once. Generation is bounded to the period on screen, so browsing forward to next year does not drag a decade of dates into memory. Without the add-on installed, the same event simply shows on its own start date.

My event is missing

Work down this list; one of them is almost always the answer.

• The event has already happened. Past dates are hidden unless show_past="yes" is set.
• The event is a draft, or its status is neither live nor scheduled.
• A category is set on the shortcode or block and the event is not in it. Uncategorised events are a common casualty here – pick All in the filter to confirm.
• It is behind “+N more” in a busy day cell. Click the toggle to expand the day.
• It has no start date, so there is no cell to put it in.
• You are looking at another month. Use Today to jump back.

The hover card

Hovering an event – or reaching it with the keyboard, which opens the same card – shows the detail a grid cell has no room for: the featured image, the full date and time, the venue (or Online for online events), the category, and a status line.

That status line is deliberately careful about what it promises:

• Sold out – the date has no capacity left. This wins over everything else, because it is the most useful thing a visitor can learn.
• Tickets available – a ticket product exists and the date is not sold out.
• See details – the event has no ticket product attached yet. It is on the calendar, but there is nothing to buy, so the calendar does not pretend otherwise.

The list view follows the same rule for its button: it reads Get tickets only when tickets can genuinely be bought, and Details in every other case.

Dates and times

Every date and time is rendered in your site timezone and in the date and time formats set under Settings → General, so the calendar matches the rest of your site and never shows a visitor their own device clock by mistake.

When a period is empty

Empty is a state, not a bug, and each view says so in its own words: “Nothing scheduled this month”, “A quiet week”, or “No events to show” in the list, each with a nudge towards another period or towards clearing the category filter.

Other languages

Everything on the calendar is translatable – the shortcode output, the block editor labels, and the strings the front-end script generates such as the “+N more” toggle. The plural rules are handled properly, so languages with more than two plural forms are counted correctly rather than approximated.