Simple Google Calendar Outlook Events Widget vs Styled Calendar – Customizable, Mobile Responsive Google Calendar Embeds

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.

Styled Calendar allows you to display up-to-date events from your Google Calendars, fully customize styles, and support desktop and mobile devices, all in just a few clicks. 🚀 Dead Simple Setup Connect your Google Calendars in one click. Instead of complex Google Calendar API configurations, Styled Calendar uses a simple Google authorization popup. Just select your Google account and click “Continue” – then leave the rest to us. 📣 Embed with a Shortcode Just copy your calendar’s shortcode and paste it anywhere on your site to display your fully customized calendar. 🎨 Fine-Grained Control Use over eighty settings to customize your calendar’s colors, typography, language, layout, and more – all without writing a single line of code. 📱 Mobile Responsive Design Support both desktop and mobile devices beautifully. Styled Calendar is optimized for all screen sizes out of the box. All settings can be varied by screen size, allowing mobile views to be customized completely independently of desktop views. 🧑‍💻 Developer Friendly If you’re a developer, you can use your skills to extend Styled Calendar even further. Add custom CSS for limitless flexibility and control. 🌎 Support for More Than Sixty Languages and Regions We give you fine-grained control over all of the text that appears on your calendars. This means that Styled Calendar can be used with almost any language. Quick select from the top 10 languages in the world, or customize your calendar’s text manually to support less common languages. ⏰ Always Up-To-Date Styled Calendar continually synchronizes events from your Google Calendars, so your end users are always kept up-to-date. Add, remove, or update events on Google Calendar and your changes will be reflected on your embedded calendar immediately. 🆓 Free for Most Users By leveraging more than sixty free preferences, the vast majority of our users design and embed their calendars at no cost. These features are completely free – forever. Want to go above and beyond? Our premium plan costs $10 per month and enables access to all of Styled Calendar’s features. Free Plan Instant Event Syncing Mobile-Responsive Design (Support for Desktop and Mobile Devices) Calendar Language (Select from More Than 60 Languages and Regions) Embed with an HTML Snippet Accent Colors Background Colors Borders and Spacing Font Family, Size, Weight, and Color Button Colors, Borders, and States Unlimited Calendar Embeds Unlimited Google Calendars Combined on a Single Calendar Embed Calendar Time Zone Custom First Day of the Week Premium Plan ($10 per Month) All features from the Free Plan Custom CSS Differentiate Google Calendars by Color Remove “Powered By Styled Calendar” Button Custom Calendar Layouts Custom Header and Footer Layouts Hidden Days of the Week Custom Initial Date Limited Date Range Week Numbers Custom Title Format Click on an Event to Open its Location (Opens Google Maps or a URL-Based Location Directly) Click on an Event to Copy it to the User’s Google Calendar Click on an Event to Open a Custom URL Event Call to Action Button Event Attachments