Events Calendar for GeoDirectory vs Simple Google Calendar Outlook Events Widget

The Events Calendar add-on for GeoDirectory is a compelling way to feature events on your directory, using Custom Post Types (CPT). This events calendar plugin creates the CPT Events, by adding time and date to a standard listing. Users can now choose to list a place or an event. Recurring Events Included Do you host the same event every day, or every second week, or every 3 months, or once every 4 years? The Events Calendar for GeoDirectory has your back! You can set events as recurring type daily, weekly, monthly, yearly and even pick custom dates. The recurring interval can be from 1 to 30. So if you select type weekly and interval 2, the events will happen every 2 weeks. Events Custom Fields Add unlimited custom fields to your events out of the box with our add event form builder. Events Calendar Widgets, Shortcodes or Blocks It’s easy to sort events by selecting “upcoming,” “today,” “past” or “all” and display custom events lists, grids and a simple events calendar anywhere using Widgets, Shortcodes or Blocks. By default, events are ordered with the upcoming event first. Events Locator The Events Calendar for GeoDirectory is a full-featured Events Locator too. Events are easily displayed on a map, allowing user to locate your events with ease. Easily show distance from them and driving directions. Premium add-ons SEO Location Manager – Create a global Events Directory with unique pages for Countries, Regions, Cities, and Neighbourhoods. Also create an an events calendar of virtual Events without a physical address. Pricing Manager – Set prices for the Events Submission on your Events Calendar & Directory. Enable/disable features per price. It uses our free GetPaid Plugin to manage payments, taxes, and invoices. Custom Post Types – Create unlimited events custom post type, each with its own custom fields, prices and more. MultiRatings and Reviews – Extend the review system allowing multiple rating categories (e.g., service, quality, price), add images to reviews and other cool features. Advance search filters – Turns any Events custom field into an advance filter of the search widget. Adds smart autocompletes, geolocation, and much more. Search Events by date. Buddypress Integration – Smoothly integrates The events Calendar for GeoDirectory with Buddypress. Claim Listing Manager – Allow events owners to claim existing listings about their events and fine-tune them. Add/edit images, link to places (venues) and show an ‘owner-verified’ badge on the listing. Now with force upgrade/paid option. Marker Cluster – Avoid cluttered maps by using numbered markers at high zoom levels. Now with super fast server-side clustering! Duplicate alert – Alert users when they add an event with the same title (or other details) as another event. Custom Map Styles – Modify the look and feel of all Maps widgets via an intuitive user interface, with color pickers and simple-to-use options. Social Importer – Import events from Facebook. One listing at a time, no bulk scraping. GD reCAPTCHA – Banish spam by adding the No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA widget to any GeoDirectory form. Franchise Manager – Allows users to submit Events that span into multiple locations. List Manager – Allows users to create their lists of events and make them public to other users. WP All Import – Use the power of WP All Import to import your listings from anywhere with this add-on that integrates Wp All Import with The Events Calendar for GeoDirectory Embeddable Ratings Badge – Let users embed their Events info with current ratings on their site, styled the way they want. Compare Listings – Let your users compare Events side by side and compare vital info about the Events. Go Pro – Become a member! Get your hands on all the Events Calendar for GeoDirectory premium add-ons and themes. Sign up at wpgeodirectory.com. Security To report a security vulnerability, please review our vulnerability disclosure policy.

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.