Meta Fields

The meta fields available when using Pie Calendar allow you to import posts with Pie Calendar data already applied, create custom functionality, or do creative things like submit posts from the front end that appear on your calendar.

The full list of meta fields is below. Information about each individual meta field is available further down.

_piecal_is_event 
_piecal_start_date
_piecal_end_date
_piecal_is_allday

Pro
_piecal_is_recurring
_piecal_recurring_interval 
_piecal_recurring_frequency 
_piecal_recurring_exact_position
_piecal_recurring_end
_piecal_color
_piecal_text_color

_piecal_is_event

Enables the "Show on Calendar" toggle in the back-end of your post.

Type: string ("" if unchecked or "1" if checked)

_piecal_start_date
_piecal_end_date

Start date and time are one combined meta field like this: 2010-01-01T14:30:00

End date and time are optional and follow the exact same format.

• Note the "T" between the date and time.
• Date format is YYYY-MM-DD.
• Time format is 24 hour (seconds required).

_piecal_is_allday

Enables the "All Day" toggle in the back-end of your post.

Type: boolean (0 or 1)

All day events hide the time display on the front-end and in "Week - List View" appear in the top of the calendar.

All fields from this point on apply to the Pro version of Pie Calendar.

_piecal_is_recurring

Enables "This Event Repeats" toggle in the back-end of your post.

Type: boolean (0 or 1)

_piecal_recurring_interval

Sets the interval of how often an event repeats.

Type: integer

If the event repeats every three days, use 3 as your integer.

If it repeats every two weeks, use 2 as your integer.

_piecal_recurring_frequency

Choose the frequency of your recurrence.

Possible options are:

• DAILY
• WEEKLY
• MONTHLY
• YEARLY

_piecal_recurring_exact_position

Enables the "Same Weekday & Position" toggle.

True or false. Only applies to MONTHLY frequency.

_piecal_recurring_end

Same logic as start and end dates. Dictates when the recurrence should end.

_piecal_color
_piecal_text_color

Hex color values for event background /dot color and event text color on the front end calendar.