BEST EVENT CALENDAR PLUGINS FOR WORDPRESS Staff | November 3, 2015 | Tips And Tricks Plugins,

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Displaying an event calendar on the website is a good idea to announce theupcoming events. There are plenty of WordPress event calendar plugins in WordPressplugin repository for this purpose. Those plugins help you to create new events, andmanage the events calendar with ease. You can tell the viewers about the date andtime of the event, event location details, and event organizer’s information andcontact details.

In this post, we will describe 5 event calendar plugins for you, which have nicefeatures. And, they bear huge appreciation from the users.

1. The Events Calendar

The Events Calendar is a powerful plugin. With many features, it has an easy to useinterface. This plugin creates “Events” menu on your dashboard as you activate it.You can create the event categories, add new venues, add organizers for yourevents with this plugin.

You can display upcoming events in a widget area. Also, you can display the events

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calendar inside the menu of the website.It offers three options for viewing calendarevents – month, list and day. You can also enable the comments for your events.

This plugin also gives the option to enable the Google map for your event page tohighlight the event venue. You can add new events just as a new post. Beneath theevent editor, you are provided with meta boxes of settings the event. For globalsettings, you can configure settings lying in the “Events” menu.

Active Installs: 300,000+

2. All-in-One Event Calendar

All-in-One Event Calendar plugin is another well liked plugin for showing eventscalendar. This plugin lets you create color coded categories. Seeing the color of theevent day, one could easily recall that which type of event is going to happen onmentioned date and time.

It offers different calendar themes to the user. It also gives theme options to makesome tweaks in the current theme. This plugins makes sharing easy with GoogleCalendar, Apple iCal, MS Outlook, and more systems that accept iCalendar (.ics)feeds.

It offers four views – month, week, day, agenda, and poster board. It allows to displaythe calendar in any widget area. You can display the calendar on a specialcalendar page as well. It gives an option to automatically create a new page forshowing events calendar.

Active Installs: 100,000+

3. Google Calendar Events

The Google Calendar Events plugin is good for you if you use Google Calendar for

keeping track of your important events. This plugin parse Google calendar feeds andshow the events as a calendar. You can place that calendar in widget area, page,or post.

You can decide whether to display events in grid format or list format. To set thisplugin up, you would need to give Google API key to it. The key is required to avoidrunning into request limit. To get the feeds from Google Calendar, this plugin requiresGoogle Calendar ID.

Active Installs: 70,000+

4. My Calendar

My Calendar is also a nice event management solution for WordPress websites. Youcan manage events using categories. It lets you make color-coded categories. Youcan even use suitable icons for the categories. Option for uploading custom icon isnot there. But, a dozen of built-in icons are available to choose from.

This plugin lets you nicely manage the locations of the events. Apart from the locationaddress and contact information, you can also display location accessibility. Googlemaps support is also offered by this plugin. My Calendar plugin offers six built-inthemes for calendar display.

If you can code, then you can even edit the CSS of the calendar theme. It brings 4widgets for calendar display. One is Mini Calendar widget. Second one today’sevents widget, which you can use to display current day’s events.

For displaying upcoming events, you can use third widget that is upcoming eventswidget. Fourth widget is search event widget, which you can use to enable viewersto search the events.

Active Installs: 40,000+

5. WordPress Event Calendar

In comparison with above plugins, WordPress Event Calendar has more simplicity. Itallows to add unlimited calendars and events. It is a good solution for recurringevents also. First, you would create a calendar, then add the events into it. The eventmanager lets you add, edit and delete the events for a particular calendar.

It allows to create color coded categories. A calendar button starts appearing onpost/page editor of WordPress when you activate this plugin. You can easily embedthe calendar in the posts and posts with the calendar button. For displaying thecalendar in the sidebar or any widget area of the website, you can use its widget.

It offers a separate widget for upcoming events. The widgets of this plugin display theevent information in a light box. And, the categories created for the calendardisplays below the calendar as a legend. User can view the calendar in both, gridand list, formats.

You can describe complete information about the event while adding it. This plugindoesn’t give separate options to create and manage locations. For creating theevent, the plugin has the TinyMCE editor. In the Pro version, this plugin offers calendarthemes and widget themes to choose from. You can edit those themes too.

Active Installs: 30,000+

In the End

We hope this article has helped you finding a suitable calendar plugin. Every plugindiscussed over here is a go to choice to add an event calendar to the front-end ofthe website. We have discussed the features and options of each plugin. So, you caneasily decide which plugin you should use.

You may use Events Calendar plugin if you want to go with our recommendation. Thisis the most used plugin and bears a plausible user rating that is 4.6 out of 5. Its featuresare also good. Our another recommendation goes with the Google Calendar Events.

This plugin helps to collaborate your calendar with Google Calendar, and get yourGoogle Calendar published on your website. We would like to have your thoughtsshared with us. Tell us which plugin you would recommend to others and why.

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