Calendars

Every calendar is inserted as a grid image layer plus separate title, subtitle and legend text layers, wrapped in a group. You can move, restyle or delete each piece like any other layer.

The primary button when creating a new calendar. It renders the grid, adds the text layers, and drops the finished group into your document.

Tip. Shown only when you are building a new calendar.

Replaces the Insert button when you reopened an existing calendar. It re-renders the same layer in place with your new settings instead of adding a second calendar.

Reopens the studio on an existing calendar layer with all its saved settings. Because the layer stores its generator setup, you can change the year, type, markers or theme at any time.

Tip. Available from the layer's generator menu once a Calendars layer exists.

Closes the studio without inserting or changing anything.

The X button in the top corner. Closes the dialog and discards any unsaved changes, the same as Cancel.

Tip. Clicking the dark area outside the dialog also closes it.

A footer note reminding you that all calendar math (week numbers, moon phases, weekday names) runs in your browser and follows your WordPress site language. No calendar data is sent anywhere.

A single-month grid, the classic calendar page. Supports week numbers, weekend tint, today marker, neighbor mini-months, moon phases and clickable day highlights.

Tip. The most option-rich type; click days in the preview to mark them.

A multi-month view that tiles two, three, four or six consecutive months, rolling over the year end. Good for a quarter or half-year on one poster.

A full twelve-month year overview, all months as small grids on one page. Day highlights and labeled legend entries carry across every month.

A circular year calendar with the twelve months arranged around a ring and the year in the center. Can add a moon-phase band and equinox/solstice season rays.

A year of principal moon phases (new, first quarter, full, last quarter), computed locally from astronomy. A wide landscape band per month.

Your whole life as a grid of small cells, one per week or per year, with lived time filled in. A reflective poster driven by your birth date and a life expectancy.

A landscape year wall planner: all twelve months as horizontal day strips, the format you pin above a desk. Supports weekend tint, holidays and highlights.

A mood-tracker grid with one small square per day of the year. You color days in the preview, and each distinct labeled color becomes a legend entry.

Tip. Give each color a name in the Highlights list to build the legend.

A countdown poster showing the number of days left until a target date, with an optional progress bar from January 1 of the target year. Great for a launch or a big day.

A festive advent layout with 24 numbered doors. A fixed December design that needs no date input.

A perpetual birthday calendar grouped by month, ignoring the year. Add each person as a highlight with a name, and they appear under their month.

Tip. Only the day and month of each highlight are used, so it never goes out of date.

A weekly planner with the seven days as columns and writing lines under each, for a printable to-do or agenda page. Built around any date inside the week you want.

A school or class timetable: weekday columns against period rows, with period start times generated automatically from a start time and length.

A monthly habit tracker: one row per habit against a check cell for every day of the chosen month. Type your habits and pick the month.

An opening-hours card listing each weekday with its hours, and closed days shown as such. For a shop or office. No date is needed.

A dropdown of the twelve month names in your site language. Sets which month the Month, Habit tracker and (as start month) Several months views show.

Tip. For Several months this field is relabeled Start month.

The same month dropdown, relabeled when the type is Several months. It sets the first tile; following months roll forward from here, wrapping into the next year if needed.

A number field for the calendar year. Used by month, multi-month, year, moon, wheel, habit, wall and pixel calendars.

How many months the Several months view tiles. Two and three sit in one or two rows; four uses two columns; six uses three.

A date picker for the Week planner. Any day inside the week you want works; the planner shows the seven days of that week, aligned to your week start.

Your date of birth for the Life calendar. It sets how many cells (weeks or years) are filled in as already lived.

A slider for the total number of years the Life calendar covers. It sets the overall size of the grid.

Chooses whether the Life calendar counts in weeks (a 52-column grid) or in years (a 10-column grid). Weeks give the dense classic look; years are calmer.

The date the Countdown counts down to. The poster shows the number of days from today until this date.

Free text shown under the countdown number. Leave it empty and the calendar fills in a default like until the target 24 December 2026.

Whether weeks begin on Monday or Sunday. It rotates the weekday column headers and the day grid to match.

Shows ISO week numbers down the left side of the month grid. Useful for planning and for European business calendars.

Tip. Week numbers follow the ISO 8601 standard.

Softly shades Saturday and Sunday so weekends stand out from work days.

Highlights the current day in the grid, but only when the shown month and year are the current ones.

Adds small previous-month and next-month grids in a strip above the main month, wrapping the year at December and January.

Tip. Handy for seeing what falls just before or after the current page.

Draws small moon-phase icons on the days they occur inside the month grid, computed locally.

Adds a band of moon phases around the Year wheel, showing the lunar cycle across the year.

Adds equinox and solstice rays and labels (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter) to the Year wheel, marking the start of each season.

Drops the solid background so the calendar sits on whatever is behind it in your document. Only the grid, text and markers are drawn.

Tip. Useful for placing a calendar over your own photo or texture.

How many writing lines appear under each day column of the Week planner, for notes and tasks.

Adds public holidays for a country as red dot markers, and (for a single month) into the legend. Choose None to turn it off.

Tip. Holiday markers use a fixed red so they read as official days.

How many weekday columns the Timetable shows: five (Mon to Fri), six (adds Saturday) or seven (full week).

How many period rows the Timetable has. Each row gets an automatic start time based on the start time and length.

The clock time the first Timetable period begins. Later period times are calculated from here.

How many minutes each Timetable period lasts. This spacing sets the start time printed on every following row.

The first date field in the add row. Sets the day you want to mark. Fill it in, then press the plus button to add it to the list.

The second date field. Set it to turn a single day into a date range, which is drawn as a soft pill spanning those days. Leave it empty for a single-day marker.

Tip. If the end date is before the start, the studio swaps them automatically.

The plus button that commits the date (or date range) from the fields into the highlights list. Duplicate dates are ignored.

On month, multi-month and year previews you can click a day to add a marker and click it again to remove it. The list and preview stay in sync.

Tip. The cursor turns to a pointer over clickable days.

The small symbol button on each highlight row. Click it to cycle through the eight marker shapes for that single date. Hidden for date ranges, which are drawn as pills.

The color swatch on each highlight row. Sets the accent color for that marker. Left unset, it uses the theme accent color.

Tip. For Year in pixels, this color is what fills the day square.

A text field on each highlight for a label like a person or event name. Named highlights appear in the automatic legend, and drive the entries and colors of the Birthday and Year-in-pixels calendars.

The X button on a highlight row deletes that marker from the list and the preview.

When on, named highlights (and holidays, for a single month) are listed as a text line under the calendar, wrapped across lines as needed.

Reads an .ics or .csv file and merges its dates into the highlights list, skipping duplicates. A quick way to pull in events from another calendar app.

Tip. After a successful import the studio shows how many new dates were added.

A highlight with an Until date is drawn as a soft rounded pill across the covered days instead of a per-day symbol, so multi-day events (holidays, trips) read as one band.

The named highlights and holidays of the visible scope are gathered into legend text lines automatically, joined with dot separators and wrapped near 58 characters per line.

For the Year in pixels type, the highlights panel note changes: give each single day a color and a name, and every distinct labeled color becomes a legend swatch under the pixel grid.

A filled accent circle around or on the day. The default marker, good for a clear positive highlight like a birthday.

An open ring outline around the day, a lighter touch than the filled circle.

A square marker on the day, a boxy alternative to the circle.

A star marker, for days you want to feel special or celebratory.

A heart marker, for anniversaries and personal favorites.

A small dot on the day, the most subtle marker. Public holidays also use a dot.

A line under the day number, marking it without covering the number.

A line through the day, useful for crossing off or marking a day as blocked or past.

One free-text field per weekday (Monday through Sunday, in your site language) where you type that day's opening hours. Whatever you type is shown as-is on the card.

Any weekday field left empty is rendered as Closed on the card. This is the placeholder text shown in the empty field.

Tip. Leave a day empty to show it as closed.

A multi-line text box, one habit per line. Each line becomes a tracker row with a check cell for every day of the selected month. Blank lines are ignored.

Tip. The taller your list, the taller the tracker grid grows.

A deep navy dark theme with a bright sky-blue accent. Calm and modern.

A near-black theme with a warm golden accent. High contrast and premium.

A dark purple theme with a soft violet accent. Playful and rich.

A dark green theme with a light mint accent. Natural and grounded.

A dark teal theme with a muted cyan accent. Cool and quiet.

A black theme where both text and accent are warm gold, for an elegant monochrome-gold look.

A light warm-cream theme with near-black text and a terracotta accent. The default; a printable, editorial look.

A light pink theme with a deep-rose text and a pink accent. Soft and warm.

The color behind the whole calendar. Overrides the theme background. Has no visible effect when Transparent background is on.

The main ink color for day numbers, titles and labels. Overrides the theme text color.

The highlight color used for markers, the today marker and accents. Overrides the theme accent. It is also the default color for new markers.

The small reset button beside each color. Removes your custom color for that slot and returns it to the theme's value.

The large heading above the calendar, rendered in uppercase Montserrat. Pre-filled from the type and date (for example the month and year) until you type your own.

Tip. Some types leave the title empty on purpose, like the wheel (year is in the center) and countdown.

A smaller line under the title, in uppercase Inter. For the Life calendar it is pre-filled with a lived-versus-total stat; otherwise it starts empty.

A slider that scales the title, subtitle and legend text together, as a percentage of their default size.

Heading over the grid of 15 calendar-type tiles. Click a tile to switch the whole calendar to that type.

Tip. The chosen tile is highlighted; the rest of the panel updates to match.

Heading over the moment controls (month, year, month count, week date, birth date, life expectancy, target date and label). Only the rows that apply to the current type are shown.

Heading over the toggles and dropdowns that fine-tune the grid, such as week start, week numbers, holidays and timetable layout.

Tip. Which options appear depends on the selected calendar type.

Heading over the tools that mark special days: the add-date row, the ICS/CSV import, the legend toggle and the list of marked dates.

Heading over the seven weekday text fields used by the Opening hours card. Shown only when the type is Opening hours.

Heading over the multi-line habit list for the Habit tracker. Shown only when the type is Habit tracker.

Heading over the grid of color-theme swatches. Pick a theme to set the background, text and accent colors at once.

Heading over the three per-color overrides (Background, Text, Accent) that let you tweak the chosen theme. A brand-kit picker sits here too: choose one of the site's brand kits and the accent comes from its palette.

Heading over the font controls. It sets the family used for the calendar grid and for the poster texts; leaving it on the default follows the editor.

Heading over the poster title, subtitle and text-size controls. This section appears only when you are inserting a new calendar, not when editing an existing one.

Sets the first column of every week to Monday (ISO style). This is the default.

Sets the first column of every week to Sunday, the common layout in the US and some other regions.

Adds no public holidays. This is the default; the calendar shows only the days you mark yourself.

Adds German public holidays automatically, computed locally, shown as dots on the grid and listed in the legend.

Adds Austrian public holidays automatically, shown as dots and added to the legend.

Adds Swiss public holidays automatically, shown as dots and added to the legend.

Label placed at the spring equinox ray on the Year wheel.

Label placed at the summer solstice ray on the Year wheel.

Label placed at the autumn equinox ray on the Year wheel.

Label placed at the winter solstice ray on the Year wheel.

Subtitle shown under the dialog title when you reopen an existing calendar with Edit Calendars. It reminds you that saving updates the same layer rather than adding a new one.

Subtitle shown under the dialog title when you open Calendars to insert a new calendar. It summarizes what the studio can produce.

Note under the Highlights add-row for grid types. It explains that added dates are drawn with an accent-colored marker.

Second half of the Highlights note. It tells you that you can click a day in the live preview to mark it, and click again to remove it, without typing a date.

Tip. Works on the Month, Year and Several months previews.

Note that replaces the normal Highlights hint when the type is Year in pixels. It explains that colored days feed the automatic mood legend.

Note under the Hours section. Any weekday field left blank is rendered as Closed on the opening-hours card.

Note under the Habits text area. Each line of text becomes one row in the habit tracker grid.

Status shown after you press Insert Calendar or Update Calendar while the high-resolution image is being baked.

Error shown if the insert or update step fails for a reason without its own message.

Error shown when an imported ICS or CSV file cannot be parsed or read from disk.

Error shown when an imported file was read but contained no usable dates to add as highlights.

Error shown if the host editor is too old to provide the document bridge the extension relies on. Update the plugin to use Calendars.

The three habits the Habit tracker starts with. Edit or replace them in the Habits text area, one habit per line.

The Title field fills itself from the current type and date until you type your own text. For example a Month becomes July 2026, a Year becomes 2026, a Moon calendar becomes Moon calendar 2026, a Life calendar becomes My life, a Birthday calendar becomes Birthdays, and a Week planner becomes Week 29 · 2026.

Tip. Year wheel and Countdown leave the title blank on purpose, since the number sits inside the art.

For the Life calendar, the Subtitle fills itself with your lived total, for example 1,742 / 4,680 Weeks or a years count, using the words Weeks or Years. It stops updating once you type your own subtitle.

Tooltip on the Auto reset button next to each color override. Pressing it drops your custom color and returns that slot to the theme's value.

The default caption printed under the big countdown number when you leave the Label field empty. It is joined with the formatted target date, for example until the target 24 December 2026.

The name given to the baked grid image layer, and the prefix of the group that holds the calendar plus its text, for example Calendar: July 2026. This is how you find the calendar in the Layers panel.

The layer name given to each automatic legend line inserted under the grid when Legend below the grid is on.