The Events Calendar vs VS Event List

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].

About With this lightweight plugin you can create an event list. Main features of the plugin: Free and lightweight Support for Block Editor and Classic Editor Display your event list with block, shortcode or widget Display upcoming and past events Share events via RSS or iCal feed Organise events with categories Customize your event list via the settings page or with attributes Add extra content to events with the Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin Documentation at WP plugin page Active support from developer at WP forum How to use After installation go to menu item “Events” and create some events. Go to the editor and add the VS Event List block or the shortcode [vsel] to a page. This will display your event list. Or go to Appearance > Widgets and use the VS Event List widget. When using the shortcode add the list attribute to display the events you want. [vsel list="upcoming"] to display upcoming events (today included) [vsel list="future"] to display future events (today not included) [vsel list="current"] to display current events [vsel list="past"] to display past events (before today) [vsel list="all"] to display all events Without this attribute the default event list is displayed (upcoming events). Customize your event list via the settings page or with attributes. Settings page The settings page is located at Settings > VS Event List. Attributes Settings can be overridden by adding attributes to the block, shortcode, or widget. This can be useful when having multiple event lists on your website. Add custom CSS class to event list: class="your-class-name" Change the number of events per page: posts_per_page="5" Display all events (without pagination): posts_per_page="-1" Skip one or multiple events: offset="1" Change date format: date_format="j F Y" Display events of a specific year: year="2026" Display events of a specific month: year="2026" month="08" Display events from a certain category: event_cat="your-category-slug" Display events from multiple categories: event_cat="first-category-slug, second-category-slug" Reverse the order of events in the upcoming, future and current events list: order="DESC" Reverse the order of events in the past and all events list: order="ASC" Change the “no events are found” text: no_events_text="your text" Disable event title link: title_link="false" Disable featured image link: featured_image_link="false" Disable featured image caption: featured_image_caption="false" Disable featured image: featured_image="false" Disable read more link: read_more="false" Disable pagination: pagination="false" Display all event info: event_info="all" Display a summary: event_info="summary" Example: [vsel posts_per_page="5" event_cat="your-category-slug" event_info="summary"] When using the block or the widget, don’t add the main shortcode tag or the brackets. Example: posts_per_page="5" event_cat="your-category-slug" event_info="summary" Featured image Featured images will be used as the primary image for every event. By default the “post thumbnail” is used as the source for the featured image. The size of the post thumbnail may vary by theme. WordPress creates duplicate images in different sizes upon upload. These sizes can be set via Settings > Media. If the post thumbnail doesn’t look as expected (low resolution or poor cropping), you can choose a different size via the settings page. You can also change the width of the featured image. The featured image on the single event page is handled by your theme. Default support The plugin creates a custom post type “event”. This automatically supports the single event page, the event category page, the (event) post type archive page and the search results page. It hooks into the theme template file that is being used by these pages. Support for the single event page is needed. Support for the other pages is added to make the plugin compatible with page builder plugins. Events on default WP pages are not ordered by event date. Plugin activates the post attributes box in the editor. In the post attributes box you can set a custom order for events that have the same date. Custom order can be handy when automatic ordering by time is disabled. Plugin supports the menu page. Support is added to make the plugin compatible with page builder plugins. Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) You can add extra content to the event details or the event info by using the Advanced Custom Fields plugin. The most commonly used fields are supported. Create a field group for the post type “event” and add fields to this group. This new field group will then be added to the editor. With these fields you can add the extra content to each event. Via the settings page you can decide where to display the extra content. RSS and iCal feed You can share your upcoming events via an RSS feed. The default RSS widget will display events from future to upcoming. To reverse this order I recommend using an RSS feed plugin capable of changing the RSS feed order. You can share your upcoming and past events with an external calendar via an iCal feed. You can activate both feeds on the settings page. Have a question? Please take a look at the FAQ section. Translation Translations are not included, but the plugin supports WordPress language packs. More translations are very welcome! The translation folder inside this plugin is redundant, but kept for reference. Credits Without help and support from the WordPress community I was not able to develop this plugin, so thank you!