Simple Google Calendar Outlook Events Widget vs Tockify Events Calendar

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.

About Tockify Calendar Tockify Calendar is a modern attractive web calendar with an engaging and easy to use design that’s perfect for the desktop and mobile web. It’s image rich, lightning fast, highly customizable and blends seamlessly into any site. Our simple yet powerful editor makes creating and managing events a joy. As well as the main calendar there’s a mini-calendar that’s been carefully designed to work well in small spaces like a sidebar. The Tockify WordPress plugin provides a WordPress shortcode and Widget that makes it easy to add your Tockify calendar to any WordPress site. We also provide a Tockify Block for visual editing with WordPress 5. This plugin can be used with both the free and the subscription editions of Tockify Calendar. It’s great for businesses, schools and universities, news sites, clubs, dance studios, gyms, yoga studios, churches, summits, workshops and seminars. Tockify Calendar Features Month, Agenda and Pinboard style layouts. Attractive Mini Calendar widget that’s great for sidebars and other small spaces. Highly customizable appearance. Live sync with Google Calendar. Social sharing to Facebook, Twitter/X etc. Ticket/Call To Action buttons. Embed Video from YouTube, Vimeo or Facebook. Customizable RSVP forms. Accept and approve community submitted events. Simple, powerful editor with complex repeating events support and built in image cropping. Built in visual tag picker and text based search. Advanced tag picker UI. Built in maps and directions. iCalendar support so people can subscribe with, for example, their phone’s built in calendar. Continuous calendar backup. Blends seamlessly into your site. Probably the world’s least widgetty widget. Language Support With the help of our community we’ve been able to make Tockify available in these languages: French German Spanish Portuguese Dutch Danish Swedish Norwegian Polish Italian Finnish Czech Slovak Slovenian Romanian Russian Turkish Greek Arabic Persian Chinese (traditional) Hebrew Welsh Korean Catalan Icelandic Galacian Faroese If your language isn’t there yet and you’d like to help just contact us at [email protected] and together we’ll make it happen.