Besides the administrator dashboard widget, Content Calendar PRO also ships a separate module that shows the calendar to your visitors on the site itself. Install and publish it like any other Joomla module, under Content > Site Modules (not Administrator Modules), and assign it to a menu item or module position.

Basic settings

Multi-day events

As soon as an End Date Field is configured, the calendar looks for articles that overlap the period on screen instead of articles that start in it, so an event that began before the visible month or week is still drawn on the days it runs into it.

A multi-day event is drawn as one continuous bar: on the side where the event continues, the corners are squared off and the bar runs up to the cell edge. The title is repeated at the start of every week row, so a bar continuing from the previous row or month is never a nameless block of colour, and the tooltip gains an end date line.

Without an End Date Field the calendar behaves exactly as before: every article appears on its start day only.

Sorting items within a day

When several items fall on the same day, Sort Items Within a Day decides their order. This is useful when your start date field holds a date only and the start time sits in a separate field: without sorting, those items appear in the order they were entered.

The items are sorted on their time of day, not on the full date, so a multi-day event continuing from the day before takes its place by its own start time. A custom field holding text such as "10:00 AM" or "14:30" is read as a time, which puts 12:15 PM correctly before 1:00 PM. A value that is not a time is sorted alphabetically after the timed items, and items without a value are shown last.

The AJAX month navigation sorts the same way as the first page load. With Start Date (default) the order is unchanged from previous versions.

Linking items to another page

By default a click on a calendar item opens the Joomla article. With Link items to you can send visitors somewhere else, for example to an external event page whose address you keep in the article:

• Link A, B or C from the article: the links on the Options tab of the article itself. When the article also fills in the link text, the read more button in the popup uses that wording instead of the standard "Read more".
• A custom field: any article custom field holding an address, selected under Link field.
• Nothing: the items are shown without a link.

When the link is empty decides what happens with an article that has no address in the selected link: open the article anyway, or show the item without a link.

An item that points somewhere other than its own article always opens as a normal link, even with Open articles in set to the modal popup, because a popup showing the Joomla article would contradict where the link points. Joomla's own target setting on Link A, B and C is not used; Open articles in stays the single setting that decides how a link opens.

Only web addresses (http, https, mailto, tel) and paths within your own site are used. Anything else in the field is ignored and the item follows the When the link is empty setting.

Display settings

Colors

Styling

Every styling option is empty by default and only applies when set, so your template's own styling remains the fallback. Settings apply per module instance.

Advanced

Visibility

The module only shows articles the current visitor is allowed to see. Both the initial page load and the AJAX month navigation check that the module is published and visible for the visitor's access level; the same check applies to the article content loaded into the modal or hover card.