V7. CalDAV calendars: not to make a fuss, but this is rather brilliant

Until now, with Sitely (ex Sparkle), anyone who needed to display booking calendars on their site (rentals, accommodation, etc.) was bound to feel a bit frustrated. Calendly, 10to8, and Houfy are rather restrictive subscription-based cloud solutions that rarely achieve their objective with a satisfactory workflow. You could embed a Google Calendar via an <iframe> in a code block, but those tend to look pretty ugly and offer very little customization. The only real alternative, as I ended up doing myself, was a DIY approach cobbled together with personal code and workarounds of varying practicality and safety.

But here’s the thing: Sitely V7 now offers a direct CalDAV link to platforms that support this protocol, iCal and Google chief among them. And that changes everything! You can now fine-tune the calendar’s appearance and behavior to match your site’s theme exactly, and best of all, updates happen completely automatically, almost in real time with iCloud or Google!

You can check out a live implementation here:

Honestly, in my opinion, this is one of the standout new features in V7 ! :collision:

Enjoy!

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