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How to customise the widget

The snippet of text that you embed on the page where you want your widget to appear can have a number of options added, and these are refferred to as attributes. See below for a full list.

Make it a ‘recommended’ widget

Lets take a practical example, and see how we can customise something in the widget. By default the widget displays all your current active events, but it can also be reused to show only events that are marked as recommended. To enable this feature add the following to your snippet:
The complete snippet should look something like this:
Now when the widget loads it will show the 3 upcoiming events marked as recommended.
If you try the above code and get no events loading in the widget remember to check the following:
  • When adding your venue code you must remove the brackets as well eg: data-venue="XXXXXXX" where XXXXXXX is your venue code.
  • It is also equally important to remember to have marked some events marked as recommended in Backstage 😊

Data Attribute list

This is the complete list of currently supported attributes, the options available and their default behavour. Remember, each attribute should be preficed with ‘data-’. eg ‘data-venue’.
The only required attribute is venue, the widget will not function without this.If an attribute is omitted it will function in the default mode outlined below.

Custom Fonts

It is not currently possible to set a custom font within the widget. In order to do this you will need some custom CSS magic!
Last modified on March 8, 2026