Category: Misc

In addition to fetching events from Google Calendar, Simple Calendar supports creating and displaying local events using a dedicated Event Post Type. This allows you to: Create events directly from the WordPress dashboard. Assign categories and tags to events. Add featured images to events. Display locally created events in a Simple Calendar. View individual events […]

Simple Calendar allows visitors to export calendars directly from the frontend. These options can be enabled from the Appearance settings of each calendar. You can display buttons that allow users to: Download the calendar as an ICS file. Subscribe to the calendar using its ICS feed URL. Print the calendar. How To Enable Exporting of […]

The ICS Feed event source allows you to import events from any calendar that supports the iCalendar (.ics) format. You can either upload an ICS file from your computer or, if you have the Google Calendar Pro add-on installed and activated, connect to a publicly accessible ICS feed URL. This allows you to display events […]

An Add to Calendar button in WordPress allows visitors to save events from your website directly to their own Google Calendar. This is useful for websites that publish classes, meetings, webinars, appointments, community events, or any other time-based activities. With the Simple Calendar Google Calendar plugin for WordPress, you can add this functionality to your […]

Previously, when multiple events in a grouped calendar occurred at the same time, they were automatically sorted and displayed alphabetically. As of Simple Calendar version 4.0.3, events are now displayed according to the manual calendar selection order configured in the backend. For example, let’s assume that you have two calendars, “Marketing” and “Sales” and you […]

As of Simple Calendar version 4.0.3, the Simple Calendar plugin now enables you to conditionally have events redirect to custom URLs when clicked on. The implementation is based on Event IDs, which determine which events should redirect to a custom URL, and which should continue redirecting to the default Google Calendar event page. The Shortcode […]

While using the free version of Simple Calendar, you may occasionally encounter the following error when the plugin tries to retrieve events from Google Calendar: While trying to retrieve events, Google returned an error: {   “error”: {     “code”: 403,     “message”: “Requests from referer \u003cempty\u003e are blocked.”,     “errors”: [       {         “message”: “Requests from referer \u003cempty\u003e are […]

Rendering of Images set as attachments in Google Calendar Events is now possible within your site calendar. Site users can now click or hover over an Event title and view the first set image attachment within the event. There are specific requirements to have this feature in place: 1. You need to use the Simple […]

The Google Calendar Pro add-on for Simple Calendar uses OAuth to connect securely to Google. In turn this allows access to both private and public calendars and additional display features such as event colors, attendees and attachments. Don’t have the add-on yet? Get the Google Calendar Pro add-on here. Setting up an Google OAuth client […]