Simple Calendar – Google Calendar Plugin vs Simple Google Calendar Outlook Events Widget

Simple Calendar is the easiest way to add Google Calendar events to your WordPress site. Quick to setup. Fine tune to your needs. Mobile responsive. Beautifully designed. Simple Calendar Features Display events from any public Google Calendar. Keep managing events in Google Calendar. No need to create events in WordPress. Out-of-the-box designs that match your theme’s look and feel. Fully responsive and mobile-friendly monthly grid and list views. Customize event content display using simple tags. No coding required. Combine multiple calendars into single displays explicitly or using categories. Intuitive, simple display configuration changes for fine tuning. Advanced settings to adjust time zones, date/time formats and start of the week. Integration with Event Calendar Newsletter for quickly turning your events into a newsletter-friendly format. Additional functionality offered with add-ons. Translations available with more being added on a regular basis. Translations welcome! Open source with code hosted on GitHub. Contributions welcome! Love using Simple Calendar? Consider purchasing a Premium Add-on FullCalendar Add-on Features Week and day views added alongside the month view. Display event titles and start times directly on your calendar. Faster load times when navigating through months, weeks or days. Configure header navigation buttons to allow site visitors to easily switch between views. Intuitive design for multi-day events. Customizable calendar heights with optional scroll bars. Set default start time for week and day views. Limit display times for week and day views. Works with our Google Calendar Pro add-on to display color-coded events within each view. Priority email support with a 24-hour response time during weekdays backed by a top-notch team. Google Calendar Pro Add-on Features Display events from both private and public Google Calendars. Highlight events with colors that match assigned Google Calendar event colors. Display attendee names, avatars and RSVP status for any private or public event. Display event organizer information. Display a list of attachments with links to their original source. Secure connection established between your site and Google using the OAuth standard. Works with our FullCalendar add-on to display beautiful month, week and day views with color-coded events. Priority email support with a 24-hour response time during weekdays backed by a top-notch team. Get ALL these features with our Premium Add-ons Want to take Simple Calendar for a spin first? Try out a Live Demo

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: “. 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.