Localist, the company which provides support for Campus Events, provides the general public with a widget builder that allows the displaying of events on any website. The widget builder is easy to use and we provide a way to easily embed the code into our sites to get the events displaying quickly.
For detailed information about the widget builder, please see the Localist Widget Guide.
- Template - Choose the template layout to display the events
- Default - Basic templates provided by Localist
- Card - Green Date Box - Card view with date in a green box and other information displayed below a representative image
- Sidebar Widget - Great for use in the sidebar of a website or on Tier 1 sites with the event button on the full-width Hero image
- Number of Results - Maximum of 50
- Days Ahead - Maximum of 365 days
Filter Content
- Experience - (Available for Default) Allows filtering of events by In-Person, Hybrid, or Remote
- Groups, Departments, Places, Event Type, Audience, Topic, Athletics & Sports, Keywords and Tags
- Choose filters based on the criteria to limit the events to specific areas
- Only Show Featured, Only Show Sponsored, Include All Matching Instances, Hide Past Events
- Checkboxes to allow further filtering on select criteria
- Content Must Match
- At least one place, group, keyword or tag, and one filter item
- Any place, group, keyword, tag, or filter item
- At least one place and group, and all keywords, tags, and filter items
- Any place or group, and at least one keyword or tag, and one filter item
Exclude Content
- Event Type, Audience, Topic, Athletics & Sport
- Choose to exclude events based on criteria
Display Options
Template - Default
- Widget Type
- List - (Default option) List of events
- Mini-Calendar + List - List of events with a mini-calendar above
- Style
- Modern - Vertical list with larger image on left and event information on the right
- Card - Horizontal cards with image on top and event information on bottom
- Classic - Minimally styled vertical list with small image to the left and minimal event information
- None - Unstyled list of event information
- Hide Descriptions
- Remove event description from displaying.
- Truncate Descriptions
- Remove all event information except title, link, and date and time.
- Render HTML in Descriptions
- Use any HTML written into the description when displaying.
- Caution: Any broken HTML tags in descriptions could have unforeseen results
- Hide Event Images
- Remove event image from displaying
- Hide Event Times
- Remove event time from displaying
- Hide “View All Events” Link
- Remove link back to the main page of Campus Events
- Our Embed paragraph allows the creation of a custom link to a location of your choice, which could allow a more specific link to send users to instead of the Campus Events homepage
- Hide Filter Dropdown (Available when Mini-Calendar is chosen)
- Remove the filter dropdown from the widget
- Open Links in New Window
- Change all links to open in a new window rather than current window
Not Template - Default
- Include Styles
- Leave as is to keep widget looking nice
Preview Widget
- Click to Preview Widget, in a new window, of what the widget will look like and to see if the filters chosen are working properly
- This is only an approximation of what it will look like on our sites as the styles might be slightly different.
Generate Embed Code
- Click to Generate Embed Code.
- Once embed code has been created:
- Copy the contents
- Paste them into a Word document, Google Doc, Text Editor or other place to keep them safe while you proceed with the next steps