Simple Google Calendar Outlook Events Widget for WordPress Plugin Directory
By bramwaas
Simple Google Calendar Outlook Events Widget is the #47 ranked events app on WordPress, with a 5.0 average rating from 6 reviews, as of Aug 31, 2026.
Simple Google Calendar Outlook Events Widget is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by bramwaas. With a rating of 5.0★ from 6 reviews, it currently ranks #47 in the Events category.
AppRanks data: Simple Google Calendar Outlook Events Widget ranks #47 in Events on WordPress Plugin Directory, placing it in the top 12% of that category.
AppRanks verdict
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Simple Google Calendar Outlook Events Widget is a category-leading WordPress app with a limited review volume. It is listed in the Events category on WordPress Plugin Directory, which AppRanks treats as the canonical taxonomy node for ranking and competitor comparison. 6 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +High average rating (5.0★) signals consistent merchant satisfaction
- +Published by bramwaas — established developer track record
Cons
- −Limited review base (6) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How Simple Google Calendar Outlook Events Widget works
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Simple block or widget to display events from a public google calendar, microsoft office outlook calendar or an other iCal file, in the style of your website.
The Gutenberg block requires at least WordPress 5.9.
This simple block/widget fetches events from a public google calendar (or other calendar in iCal format) and displays them in simple list allowing you to fully adapt to your website by applying all kinds of CSS.
Google offers some HTML snippets to embed your public Google Calendar into your website.
These are great, but as soon as you want to make a few adjustments to the styling, that goes beyond changing some colors, they’re not enough.
Plugin Features
Calendar block or widget to display appointments/events of a public Google calendar or other iCal file.
Block gives live preview in the editor and is not constrained to widget area. Old widget will be displayed in legacy widget block only in widget area. Old widget works also with Elementor (with some limitations e.g. preview in backend editor is not always available).
Small footprint, uses only Google ID of the calendar, or ICS link for Outlook, or Url of iCal file, to get event information via iCal
Merge more calendars into one block
Manage events in Google Calendar, or other iCalendar source.
Fully adaptable to your website with CSS. Output in unordered list with Bootstrap 4 listgroup classes and toggle for details.
Choose date / time format in settings screen that best suits your website.
Displays per event DTSTART, DTEND, SUMMARY, LOCATION and DESCRIPTION. DTSTART is required other components are optional.
Displays most common repeating events. Frequency Yearly, Monthly, Weekly, Dayly (not Hourly, Minutely and smaller periods)
Basic support for filter on Categories Warning: MS Outlook does not share categories via iCal now. Google and iCloud calendar don’t support categories at all. So this will not work with these calendars.
In the screenshot below: Left the block with default settings and clicked on one summary. Right with some adjusted settings.
Adjusted settings for start with summary:
Lay-out: Start with summary.
Date format first line: “.<\b\r>l jS \o\f F”
Enddate format first line: ” – l jS \o\f F”
Time format time summary line: ” G:i”
Time format end time summary line: ” – G:i”
Time format start time: “”
Time format end time: “”
Tag for summary: “strong”
Documentation
Gets calendar events via iCal url or google calendar ID
Merge more calendars into one block
Displays maximum the selected number of events as listgroup-items
Displays only events in a selected period with a length of the setting “Number of days after today with events” from now limited by the time of the day or the beginning of the day at the start and the and of the at the end.
Displays events in timezone of WordPress setting, or in Clients timezone with javascript REST call fetched from the clients browser.
Displays event start-date and summary; toggle details, description, start-, end-time, location.
Displays most common repeating events
Frequency Yearly, Monthly, Weekly, Dayly (not parsed Hourly, Minutely …), INTERVAL (default 1), WKST (default MO)
End of repeating by COUNT or UNTIL
By day month, monthday or setpos (BYDAY, BYMONTH, BYMONTHDAY, BYSETPOS) no other by…
(not parsed: BYWEEKNO, BYYEARDAY, BYHOUR, BYMINUTE, RDATE)
Exclude events on EXDATE from recurrence set (after evaluating BYSETPOS)
Respects Timezone and Day Light Saving time. Build and tested with Iana timezones as used in php, Google, and Apple now also tested with Microsoft timezones and unknown timezones. For unknown timezone-names using the default timezone of WordPress (probably the local timezone).
(This widget is a Fork of version 0.7 of that simple google calendar widget by NBoehr
https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-google-calendar-widget/)
Copyright and License This project is licensed under the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.
2017 – 2023 © Bram Waasdorp.
Category rankings
As of Sep 5, 2026- Events#47of 399Top 12%
- Calendar#48of 434Top 12%
- Block-enabled#221of 427Top 52%
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Competitors & alternatives
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Frequently asked questions
What is Simple Google Calendar Outlook Events Widget?
Simple Google Calendar Outlook Events Widget is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 5.0-star rating from 6 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. It is listed under the Events category on AppRanks, where you can see its current category position, review-velocity trend, and how it compares against the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by bramwaas.
Who uses Simple Google Calendar Outlook Events Widget?
Currently around 1,000 active stores have installed Simple Google Calendar Outlook Events Widget. Its review base is still building, which usually maps to early-stage merchants and stores piloting a new workflow. It is part of the Events category on WordPress.
Where does Simple Google Calendar Outlook Events Widget rank on WordPress?
Simple Google Calendar Outlook Events Widget currently sits at position #47 in the Events category on WordPress. That places it in the top 12% of 399 apps tracked in the same category. Category positions are read from the live marketplace ranking and refresh on each scrape, so the number you see here reflects the most recent crawl rather than a long-running average.