Title: Weekend Shading
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Weekend Shading

 *  Resolved [asyouwishaustin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/asyouwishaustin/)
 * (@asyouwishaustin)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weekend-shading/)
 * We use Events Manager for a social club with a lot of weekend activities. So,
   I have the calendar set to start the week on Monday and keep weekends together.
   Yet, this confuses some of our members.
 * I’d like to shade the background of the columns that represent the weekend.
 * Ideally, I’d have control to make all the formatting changes I want to whichever
   days I’d like. I’d even like days with events to be a little larger and bolder
   while dates without events are smaller and muted/shaded. Still, if I could just
   control the background color on the weekends vs. weekdays, I’d solve some of 
   the communication problems.
 * [http://www.austinchildfree.org/events/](http://www.austinchildfree.org/events/)
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager/)

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 *  Plugin Support [angelo_nwl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angelo_nwl/)
 * (@angelo_nwl)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weekend-shading/#post-4496473)
 * here’s another css snippet which may help you with this – [http://pastebin.com/G2hhExew](http://pastebin.com/G2hhExew)
 *  Thread Starter [asyouwishaustin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/asyouwishaustin/)
 * (@asyouwishaustin)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weekend-shading/#post-4496542)
 * Angelo,
 * Thank you. That is a huge help! I can hack through that and make it close to 
   what I want. Since I’m not a programmer, I don’t know how to look for these.
 * I still can’t, however, find a way to make Mon-Fri one color set and Sat-Sun 
   another.
 * other ideas?
 * -Lori
 *  Plugin Support [angelo_nwl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angelo_nwl/)
 * (@angelo_nwl)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weekend-shading/#post-4496606)
 * try something like this
 *     ```
       tr.days-names {
         background: #000;
       }
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [asyouwishaustin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/asyouwishaustin/)
 * (@asyouwishaustin)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weekend-shading/#post-4496613)
 * Thanks…but wouldn’t that just shade the background of the top of all 7 columns?
   Instead of shading the dates that fall on Saturday and Sunday?
 * I was hoping it would look more like this:
    [http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41lEJZ1SMeL._SX300_.jpg](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41lEJZ1SMeL._SX300_.jpg)
 *  [caimin_nwl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caimin_nwl/)
 * (@caimin_nwl)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weekend-shading/#post-4496617)
 * Are you using the standard Events Manager calendar or the companion WP Full Calendar?
 * With WP Full Calendar you can do what you want with CSS, with the standard calendar
   you’d need to edit the template file and add some PHP code that checks the day
   each cell refers to and adds a_ .weekend_ class name for you to style with CSS.
 *  Thread Starter [asyouwishaustin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/asyouwishaustin/)
 * (@asyouwishaustin)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weekend-shading/#post-4496693)
 * Engaging WP Full Calendar made a huge difference.
 * I am /not/ a coder, so I still can’t “merge” some PHP if/then code with CSS to
   control the background…but at least I know where I’m headed. Time to do some 
   serious-for-me learning about how to create classes and call them.
 * Thanks for the nudge in the right direction.

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## Tags

 * [calendar](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/calendar/)
 * [shade](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/shade/)
 * [shading](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/shading/)
 * [weekdays](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/weekdays/)

 * 6 replies
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 * Last reply from: [asyouwishaustin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/asyouwishaustin/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weekend-shading/#post-4496693)
 * Status: resolved