A better and more flexible calendar widget
From a design standpoint, the current Hospitable calendar widget can only be used in a sidebar fashion as an embed with a fixed height and width, and this fixed sidebar-style presentation means that it can't really be featured in the body of a given webpage because it doesn't span a column. it also makes rows look bad because there's far too much white space in the default state (before a user has made selections in the widget). if you look at calendars on OTAs, they can exist in the body of a page, or a sidebar, very flexibly, and the modal expansion works differently (it doesn't requite a bunch of unused white space in which to later expand). Hospitable needs to re-approach the widget to make it something that can be used flexibly in different layouts. I would prefer if Hospitable created calendar widgets or plugins that are specific to the most popular platforms. Squarespace. Wordpress. Etc. Creating a one-size-fits-all widget that can technically be embedded anywhere but is very inflexible and limited is less than Hospitable is capable of. You're obviously great designers and place a premium on usability and design. Based on that, I'm expecting more from the widget execution.
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Violet Helmet
Jul 9
Check out this community form post on how to build your own custom calendar. We built ours and gave a little walk-through on how to do it.
https://community.hospitable.com/hospitable-conversations-7/my-solution-to-hospitable-s-basic-direct-booking-site-templates-1888
Sapphire Cascade
Jul 4
I agree. Built on a squarespace website - and the widget flow looks pretty terrible.
Emerald Alligator
Sep 16, 2025
The ability to use the widget on any size page is a critical feature that is currently missing. We need this functionality.