AnnoVisio vs Simple Google Calendar Outlook Events Widget

AnnoVisio displays events from Calendly or a public iCalendar/ICS feed in a compact yearly calendar and list view through the shortcode [annovisio]. The fixed standard configuration uses exactly one source: one Calendly account connected with a Personal Access Token, or one public iCalendar/ICS feed from Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, Apple Calendar, or another compatible calendar system. For Calendly sources, AnnoVisio synchronizes event types and occurrences, supports multi-day Calendly events, checks availability before booking, and opens the official Calendly booking popup when a bookable event is selected. For iCalendar/ICS sources, the configured public feed is fetched server-side with the WordPress HTTP API and normalized into a WordPress transient. The configured calendar name and color are applied when the overview is rendered, so changing these display settings does not require a new feed fetch. No external frontend assets are loaded for iCalendar output. The year grid is the default view. Event bars open a local detail dialog with title, date, calendar name, description, event URL when available, and the calendar page URL. The plugin displays the shortcode page itself as the event archive. It does not create event posts, standalone event detail pages, Google OAuth connections, or write access to any calendar. Key features: Yearly calendar with event detail dialog Calendar and list views Public iCalendar/ICS feed support Support for public feeds from Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, Apple Calendar, and other compatible calendar systems Configurable calendar name and color for the iCalendar/ICS feed Server-side iCalendar/ICS fetching and transient-based caching Manual iCalendar/ICS refresh and display-cache update Recurring iCalendar/ICS events with RDATE and EXDATE support Visible frontend errors for unavailable configurations, feed fetch errors, or parser errors Calendly event type and occurrence synchronization Manual or optional automatic Calendly synchronization Multi-day Calendly events Direct Calendly booking popup Availability and sold-out checks before booking Manual display-cache update without starting a Calendly synchronization External services The plugin contacts external services only when the corresponding source is configured. Public iCalendar/ICS feed When an iCalendar source is selected, the plugin sends a server-side HTTP GET request to the public ICS URL entered by the site administrator. The feed can come from any calendar provider that offers a public iCalendar/ICS feed URL, for example Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, Apple Calendar, or another compatible calendar system. The request is made from the WordPress server using the WordPress HTTP API when the cache is empty or when an administrator uses the manual refresh action. The request is used only to retrieve and parse the calendar data. The requested calendar provider receives the server request, including normal HTTP request metadata such as IP address and user agent. The plugin does not send visitor data to the feed URL from the browser and does not load external frontend assets for iCalendar output. Administrators should only configure a public iCalendar/ICS feed URL whose provider, terms of service, and privacy policy are acceptable for their website. The destination and its terms and privacy policy depend on the service chosen by the administrator. Calendly When Calendly is selected, the plugin uses Calendly to synchronize event data, check availability, and open the official booking popup. External Calendly resources: Service: https://calendly.com API: https://api.calendly.com Widget script: https://calendly.com/assets/external/widget.js Widget stylesheet: https://calendly.com/assets/external/widget.css What is sent and when: During manual or automatic synchronization, authenticated server-side GET requests are sent to the Calendly API with the Personal Access Token configured by the administrator. The plugin requests the connected user, active event types, occurrences, and available times required by the existing synchronization and availability logic. When a visitor clicks a Calendly event, the browser first calls this plugin’s REST endpoint on the same WordPress site. The plugin then checks the relevant event type, date, or UTC slot against Calendly. The Calendly widget script and stylesheet are loaded only on calendar output that contains a Calendly source. Booking interactions inside the popup are handled by Calendly. Calendly legal information: Terms: https://calendly.com/legal/customer-terms-conditions Privacy: https://calendly.com/legal/privacy-notice

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. 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. Legacy (old) widget will be displayed in legacy widget block only in widget area. Legacy widget works also with Elementor (with some limitations e.g. preview in backend editor is not always available), with SiteOrigin only the legacy widget with no namespace (activate with checkbox in plugin admin screen) works correct. 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. Works with overridable templates to make the layout more flexible. (You need basic knowledge of PHP to use this function effectively.) 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: “. 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.