SDAweb Calendar Sync for Google Calendar vs The Events Calendar

SDAweb Calendar Sync turns any Google Calendar into a polished, on-brand events display on your WordPress site — without duplicate data entry. Keep scheduling in Google Calendar the way you already do; the plugin pulls those events in and keeps your site in sync automatically. It’s for anyone who already runs their events in Google Calendar and wants them to look like a native part of their site instead of an embedded iframe — businesses, teams, venues, clubs, communities, and organisations of every kind. Insert a calendar with a Gutenberg block, a shortcode, or a classic widget. All three share one render pipeline, so the output is identical however you add it. Six ways to show your calendar List / Agenda — chronological, optionally grouped by day, week, or month Month grid — classic 7×6 calendar with multi-day event ribbons spanning across cells, today highlight (cell or whole-column style), optional ISO 8601 week-number column, and per-feed pastel chips Card grid — upcoming events as styled cards, responsive Week — 7 day columns, today highlighted Day — single-day agenda Mini-month — compact dot-density grid for sidebars and widgets, with a tap-to-expand event panel showing today + next upcoming events and a “Load more” button Switch between views with one setting, or expose a visitor-facing view-toggle pill so visitors can switch themselves. Under the hood every view shares the same data layer, the same CSS-variable system, and the same accessibility baseline. Smart UX out of the box Hover popover on event chips (Month, Week, Mini) — a floating card with date, time, location, calendar, recurrence summary, and a click-through link, so visitors get the full event detail without leaving the page. Desktop hover + keyboard focus only; touch users keep direct click-through. Mobile auto-degrade Month → Mini — below ~600px the full grid is replaced by the compact Mini-month view, so phone visitors get a clean, tappable calendar with no extra work from you. One wrapper, two layouts, no JS swap. ICS subscribe dropdown — one tap to add your events to a visitor’s own calendar: Google Calendar (web), Apple Calendar / Outlook (webcal), Android Google Calendar app (intent), and Copy-link with toast confirmation. Mobile becomes a bottom sheet. Live search + jump-to-date picker — optional chrome controls so visitors can filter or navigate quickly. Multi-day event ribbons — week-spanning bars with arrow indicators when an event continues beyond the visible row. Recurring event indicator — small ↻ icon with a plain-language cadence summary in the tooltip (“Repeats weekly until 31 December 2026”). Per-display locale override — render a calendar in a specific language (e.g. nb_NO) even when the site language differs, so you can run a localized calendar on a site that’s in another language. Two authentication paths API key — for calendars marked “Make available to public” in Google Calendar. One field, paste, done. Service Account JSON — for private calendars without per-user OAuth. Upload the JSON, share the calendar with the service-account email, you’re set. Credentials are encrypted at rest using a key derived from your site’s authentication salt. They are never echoed back into the admin UI — only the masked value and (for service accounts) the public service-account email are shown. Theme-aware out of the box The plugin reads your active theme’s theme.json color palette and uses your primary, accent, foreground, and background colors automatically. Per-display overrides let you set custom primary, accent, today-highlight, and link colors and force light/dark mode without touching code. Every design token is exposed as a CSS custom property so a developer can fully restyle the calendar from their theme stylesheet. Five built-in theme presets One-click coordinated colour bundles: Default (clean blue), Warm earth (cream + deep red), High contrast (solid black on white for AAA-stricter sites), Forest (deep green), Sunset (warm coral + amber). Accessibility built in WCAG 2.2 AA baseline with several AAA touches: Live contrast warnings on every colour picker — the admin UI shows the WCAG ratio against both light and dark surfaces with pass/fail markers as you choose colours Automatic high-contrast overlay via prefers-contrast: more Focus-visible halo: a 4px white ring behind the primary outline so focus stays visible against any chip background prefers-reduced-motion honored everywhere ARIA roles and labels on the month grid, navigation, popovers, and view-toggle Semantic HTML throughout RTL-aware via CSS logical properties Tabular numerals for day numbers and time labels so single- and double-digit values don’t drift Built for the WordPress.org standard Block editor first-class — server-side rendered, ServerSideRender preview, all the standard InspectorControls Shortcode and classic widget on the same render pipeline No bundled core libraries (no jQuery on front-end, no Guzzle, no Carbon, no Monolog) No third-party authentication relay — your credentials only ever talk directly to googleapis.com Translation ready via translate.wordpress.org once the plugin is published and indexed (no bundled .po/.mo — WordPress auto-loads locale files into wp-content/languages/plugins/ per the WP Plugin Handbook), plurals via _n(), JS strings via wp_localize_script Free and GPLv2 For developers Extension hooks are documented in docs/hooks.md inside the plugin folder. The first-release set includes filters for event data, event URLs, query args, cache TTL, render output, palette resolution, plus actions for refresh and uninstall lifecycle. Third-Party Services This plugin connects to the Google Calendar API to retrieve events from calendars you configure. Service: Google Calendar API v3 Website: https://developers.google.com/calendar Terms of Service: https://developers.google.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy Data sent: the calendar ID(s) you configure, plus either your API key or a JSON Web Token signed with your service account credentials. Event data is returned to your server and cached locally as WordPress transients. No event data is sent to any third party. The ICS subscribe feature, when enabled, serves a self-hosted iCalendar (.ics) feed from your own site — built from the same calendar data already fetched via the Google Calendar API above — so subscribers can add it in Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook, or any other app that supports calendar subscriptions. No data is sent to any third party beyond the Google Calendar API connection already disclosed.

Easily create and manage an events calendar on your WordPress site with The Events Calendar free plugin. Whether your events are in-person or virtual events, this WordPress calendar plugin boasts professional features backed by our world-class team of developers and designers. See more videos on our YouTube channel Packed with loads of features, The Events Calendar is ready to go out of the box. It’s also extensible, easy to use, and completely customizable. 📅 The #1 Calendar for WordPress See the calendar in action on our demo experience. Just getting started? Read through the New User Primer to get set up. Looking for additional features like recurring events, ticket sales, user-submitted events, automatic imports, and more? Check out Events Calendar Pro, Event Aggregator, and more add-ons. 🔌🎨 Plug and Play or Customize The Events Calendar is built to work out of the box. Simply install the plugin, configure your settings, and start creating events in minutes. Want to add your personal touch? Use The Events Calendar as the foundation for customization. Personalize to your heart’s content with the help of a skeleton stylesheet, partial template overrides, template tags, hooks and filters, careful documentation, and a library of free extensions. Whether your vision is big or small, you’re in good company. Hundreds of thousands of small businesses, musicians, venues, restaurants, and non-profits are publishing and promoting their in-person and virtual events with The Events Calendar. Our plugins have also been scaled to work on large networks for Fortune 100 companies, universities, and government institutions. ✨ Features Our feature-rich plugin comes with everything you need to create and manage your calendar. ✔️ Rapidly create events ✔️ Saved venues & organizers ✔️ Calendar month view with tooltips ✔️ Event List view ✔️ Day view ✔️ Block Editor support ✔️ Event search ✔️ Google maps ✔️ Widget: Upcoming events list ✔️ Events Taxonomies (Categories & Tags) ✔️ Google Calendar and iCal exporting ✔️ WP REST API endpoints ✔️ Completely ajaxified for super smooth browsing ✔️ Completely responsive from mobile to tablet to desktop ✔️ Tested on the major theme frameworks such as Avada, Divi, Enfold, Genesis, and many more. ✔️ Increase your SEO with JSON-LD Structured Data ✔️ Internationalized & translated ✔️ Multiple stylesheets to improve integration ✔️ Extensive template tags for customization ✔️ Hooks & filters galore ✔️ Caching support ✔️ Debug mode for developers ✔️ Library of extensions 📃 Documentation All of our documentation can be found in our Knowledgebase. Additional helpful links: The Events Calendar New User Primer The Themer’s Guide to The Events Calendar If you have any questions about this plugin, you can post a thread in the WordPress.org forum. Please search existing threads before starting a new one. Add-Ons Take your calendar to the next level by pairing it with our plugins for ticketing, crowdsourcing, email marketing, and more. Learn more about all our products on our website. Our Free Plugins: 🎟️ Event Tickets 📐 Advanced Post Manager Our Premium Plugins and Services: ⚡ Events Calendar PRO ↪️ Event Aggregator (service) 🎟️ Event Tickets Plus ✉️ Promoter 👥 Community Events ✏️ Filter Bar 🗓️ Eventbrite Tickets Help If you aren’t familiar with The Events Calendar, check out our New User Primer. It will have you creating events in no time. Ready to dig deeper? Check out these resources: Tutorials Release Schedule Known Issues Documentation Help Videos Release Notes We check in on the The Events Calendar forum here on WordPress.org about once a week to help users with basic troubleshooting and identifying bugs. If you’re looking for premium, personalized support, consider upgrading to Events Calendar Pro. Still have a question? Shoot us an email at [email protected].