CalDav Calendar Viewer vs Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more!

CalDav Calendar Viewer fetches and displays events from any standard iCal (.ics) feed directly on your site using a simple shortcode. It supports multiple calendar feeds, each with its own URL and optional username/password for authenticated endpoints. Key Features: Multiple Calendar Feeds – Configure as many feeds as you need, each with a unique ID. iCal / RFC 5545 Support – Parses standard .ics calendar feeds including all-day events, times, locations, and descriptions. Recurring Events – Expands RRULE recurrences (DAILY, WEEKLY, MONTHLY, YEARLY) including BYDAY, BYMONTHDAY, INTERVAL, COUNT, UNTIL, and EXDATE. DURATION Support – Derives the end time from a DURATION property when DTEND is absent. Basic Authentication – Supply a username and password per feed for protected calendars. Encrypted Credentials – Passwords are stored using AES-256-CBC encryption in the database. Caching – Configurable cache lifetime reduces external HTTP requests (defaults to 1 hour). Cache Management – View the number of currently cached feed entries and clear them with one click from the admin settings page. Async Loading – Calendar events are fetched via AJAX so the containing page renders immediately. Label / Category Filtering – Filter events by iCal CATEGORIES labels using the label shortcode attribute. Accepts a comma-separated list; all plain labels must be present on an event for it to be shown. Prefix a label with ! to exclude events that carry that category. Matching is case-insensitive. Clickable Events – Events that carry a URL property in the iCal feed are rendered as clickable links. 7-Day Rolling Window – Automatically fetches and displays only the next 7 days of events. Responsive Event List – Clean event list layout that adapts to all screen sizes. Event Tooltips – Hover over an event to see its description. Description Prefix Filtering – Remove lines from event descriptions that start with configurable prefixes. Useful for hiding internal metadata added by calendar applications. Configuration Navigate to Settings → CalDav Calendar Viewer in the WordPress admin panel. Adding a Feed Click + Add Feed and fill in: Feed ID – A unique lowercase identifier (letters, numbers, hyphens, underscores) used in the shortcode. iCal Feed URL – The full URL to the .ics calendar feed. Username – Username for Basic Authentication. Leave blank for public feeds. Password – Password for Basic Authentication. Stored encrypted. Leave blank to keep the current value. You can configure multiple feeds — each gets its own ID. General Settings Cache Lifetime (seconds) – How long fetched calendar data is cached. Set to 0 to disable caching. Default: 3600 (1 hour). Description Line Prefixes to Remove – Newline-separated list of prefixes. Any line in an event’s description that starts with one of these prefixes is removed from the tooltip. Useful for hiding internal metadata added by calendar apps (e.g. X-APPLE-, Reminder:). Cache Management The settings page shows how many calendar feeds are currently cached. Use the Clear Cache button to delete all cached responses and force fresh fetches on the next page load. Usage Basic Shortcode [caldcavi_calendar id="my-feed"] Shortcode Attributes id (required) – The feed ID configured in Settings → CalDav Calendar Viewer. label (optional) – A comma-separated list of iCal CATEGORIES values to filter events by. All plain labels must be present on an event for it to be shown. Prefix a label with ! to exclude events that carry that category. Matching is case-insensitive. Omit to show all events. Examples [caldcavi_calendar id="team-calendar"] [caldcavi_calendar id="hr-events"] [caldcavi_calendar id="team-calendar" label="Work"] [caldcavi_calendar id="team-calendar" label="Work,Important"] [caldcavi_calendar id="team-calendar" label="Work,!Cancelled"] [caldcavi_calendar id="team-calendar" label="!Private"]

Events Manager is a full-featured event calendar, bookings, appointments, scheduling, and registration management plugin for WordPress ideal for everything from simple meetups to full-scale event planning. Built with flexibility, reliability and powerful features in mind. Demo Documentation Tutorials Main Features NEW Integrate easily with your favourite AI via MCP, unlock the power of AI-powered Events! NEW API Rest Integration Beautiful calendars, search pages, lists, grids and booking forms to enhance your site events. Easy event registration (single day with start/end times) Recurring and long (multi-day) event registration Build complex recurrence patterns with exclusion/blackout dates NEW Multiple timeslots within the day for events with advanced creation options Overlapping timeslots Buffer between timeslots Bookings Management (including approval/rejections, export CVS, and more!) Multiple Tickets Fully-featured graph and statistics including bar/line/pie with comparison and stacking MultiSite Event Support Cross-Network Event Sharing – show your events and booking fromss on other subsites or main site Network-wide Global Booking Management BuddyPress and BuddyBoss Support Create modular (independent) event subsites or inter-networked events Multiple custom event types (Archetypes), such as Workshops, Events, Webinars, Appointments etc. Customize your labels, slugs and CPT names Enable or disable specific features for specific event archetypes. Multiple Location Types Physical Locations Online Events (URLs) Zoom Webinars/Meetings Integration BuddyPress & BuddyBoss Support Submit Events Group Events Personal Events Activity Stream more on the way Guest/Member Event submissions Assign event locations and view events by location Event categories Easily create custom event attributes (e.g. dress code) Google Maps (see our API usage recommendations) Advanced permissions – restrict user management of events and locations. Widgets for Events, Locations and Calendars Fine grained control of how every aspect of your events are shown on your site, easily modify templates from the settings pages and template files iCal Feed (single and all events) Add to Google Calendar buttons RSS Feeds Compatible with SEO plugins Timezone Support – create events in different timezones Plenty of template tags and shortcodes for use in your posts and pages Gutenberg block editor support, with native blocks for the Events Calendar, Events List, and Locations List — usable in posts, pages, the site editor and the widget editor Actively maintained and supported Lots of documentation and tutorials NEW Gutenberg Supported And much more! AI Integration AI is here, and we’re on board! Check out what’s possible with our new and evolving AI integration possibilities: Data Privacy and GDPR Compliance We provide the tools to help you be GDPR compliant, including: export/erasure of data via the WordPress Privacy Tools, including booking, event and location data consent checkboxes on our booking, event and location forms on the frontend settings to control what can be exported/erased as well as where/when to place consent requests sample text for your site privacy policy describing what Events Manager does with personal data Premium Features We have a premium Pro add-on for Events Manager which not only demonstrates the flexibility of Events Manager, but also adds some important features including but not limited to: WooCommerce integration (sold separately) PayPal, Stripe, Authorize.net and Offline Payments Custom booking forms Individual Attendee custom forms Upload fields for bookings, attendees and users Printable Invoices and Tickets Send PDF tickets/invoices by email automatically Check In/Out Move bookings to other dates/times QR Scanning Manage bookings on your phone Check In/Out users Waitlists Automation – ultimate flexibility in automation! Triggers: X time before/after events start When a booking status changes When a booking was booked x time ago Actions Send Webhook (Zapier, MS Automation and many other services) Send Email Send WhatsApp, SMS, Telegram notifications WhatsApp, SMS, Telegram integration and interactive flows Coupon Codes Custom booking email per event and gateway Faster support via private Pro forums For more information or to go pro, visit our plugin website. Additional Plugin Integrations Whilst there’s many third party integrations with our own plugin, here’s some we’ve integrated ourselves! Included in Events Manager (automatic integration) BuddyPress WP FullCalendar Thrive Automator Additional Add-Ons Zoom WPML Multilingual Sites