A simple event calendar created for musicians but useful for anyone. Supports multi-day events, styled text, links, images, and more.

Matthew Fries

I’m Matthew Fries (that’s where the MF in MF Gig Calendar comes from) and I’m a jazz pianist and educator. I’m not able to support this plugin as enthusiastically as before, but I developed it originally because I wanted a flexible and easy to use performance calendar for <a href="https://matthewfries.com" rel="nofollow ugc">my own music website</a>. In the process I tried to create something that would work for more than just musicians. I’ve added a few features since it started:
<h4>Current Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>beginning and end dates for multiple-day events</li>
<li>WordPress’s WYSIWYG editor for the event description so you can include styled text, links, images and other media in your event list</li>
<li>a duplicate function to make it easier if you have a repeating event that you don’t want to re-enter over and over</li>
<li>an RSS feed</li>
<li>a widget to list a few upcoming events in the sidebar</li>
<li>an archive to view past events by year</li>
<li>supports localization (waiting on translations…)</li>
<li>shortcode variables to customize the output</li>
</ul>
The calendar can be placed in any PAGE or POST on your WordPress site – even in more than one place. Just include the following short code where you want the calendar to appear:
<pre><code>[mfgigcal]
</code></pre>
Requires WordPress 3.3 or newer because of the changes to the WordPress WYSIWYG editor. Personally tested up to 6.2.2.
Want to keep in touch? Here are a few options…
<ul>
<li><a href="https://matthewfries.com" rel="nofollow ugc">www.matthewfries.com</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/matthewfriesmusic" rel="nofollow ugc">facebook</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.twitter.com/mfjazz" rel="nofollow ugc">twitter</a></li>
</ul>
As a general rule I’ve tried to keep this as simple and flexible as possible.

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