{"id":1001,"date":"2008-02-04T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyfive\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2026-02-04T14:08:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T14:08:47","slug":"embed-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyfive\/embed-calendar\/","title":{"rendered":"Embed Calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/calendar.google.com\/calendar\/embed?height=600&#038;wkst=7&#038;ctz=Europe%2FLondon&#038;showPrint=0&#038;hl=en_GB&#038;src=dGhlZ2FyZGVuZmxhdGR1bmJhckBnbWFpbC5jb20&#038;src=ZTJjMWQwY2UyOWE2MmRjMzFiNGI1ZmYzZWY1ODA1MzJiZTMxYjA1MzA4NGUyODQ2OWFiYTJkYjEwMjYzMjUzYkBncm91cC5jYWxlbmRhci5nb29nbGUuY29t&#038;color=%230b8043&#038;color=%23d50000\" style=\"border-width:0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-2-color has-contrast-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-e082bd8341e4adc8916de89dbe07c46b\">With Google Calendar, you can flexibly import external calendars and display multiple calendars on a website. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-2-color has-contrast-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-f36bdcff870746a313217875993ca674\">If you are taking bookings, it can make sense to integrate all the bookings from multiple platforms into a single calendar rather than display multiple calendars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-2-color has-contrast-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-79ce38b3f189e64734bde0b9d6698346\">To prevent double booking platforms like VBRO and ABNB allow calendar syncronisation. But they&#8217;d rather you booked through them and often won&#8217;t let you embed their calendar directly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A solution to this limitation is to make your Google Calendar the default publicly visible calendar on your website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While a bit of manual labour is involved, you can use the public and private visibility options carefully to: a) selectively show a price calendar (which can show basic pricing or offers); and b) display the bookings; and even c) recycling days and d) other useful local information (a simple notice board).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By default an entry in a Google Calendar is private until you mark it either public or &#8220;busy&#8221;. To avoid accidentally exposing customer data publicly (as illustrated in the frivolous example above) always make the entry &#8220;busy&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;d rather avoid the platform (no bad thing) and are actually more comfortable with a little bit of toing and froing before confirming a booking, this is an effective and economical solution. Cancelling a hasty booking made through a platform can be irksome (can tarnishes one&#8217;s reputation). But you can save a mountain on transaction fees too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>:-)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-2-background-color has-background\">If you&#8217;d like to try this solution drop the google calendar embed code into an iframe (if the iframe plugin is enabled) &#8211; or ask us to enable it for a donation (which helps ourlocality be more sustainable).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"686\" src=\"http:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyfive\/files\/2022\/01\/DSC_0245-1024x686.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyfive\/files\/2022\/01\/DSC_0245-1024x686.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyfive\/files\/2022\/01\/DSC_0245-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyfive\/files\/2022\/01\/DSC_0245-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyfive\/files\/2022\/01\/DSC_0245-1536x1029.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyfive\/files\/2022\/01\/DSC_0245-1568x1050.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyfive\/files\/2022\/01\/DSC_0245.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Google Calendar, you can flexibly import external calendars and display multiple calendars on a website. If you are taking bookings, it can make sense to integrate all the bookings from multiple platforms into a single calendar rather than display multiple calendars. To prevent double booking platforms like VBRO and ABNB allow calendar syncronisation. 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