Marcin Wosinek

<p>A Gutenberg block for calendar integration. The block displays a button with a calendar integration with support for Google Calendar, Outlook, Yahoo Calendar, and ICS downloads. With a clean, professional dropdown interface, visitors can add events to their preferred calendar application.</p>
<p><strong>Key Features:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Multiple Calendar Providers:</strong> Google Calendar, Outlook, Yahoo Calendar, and ICS download</li>
<li><strong>Modern UI:</strong> Clean dropdown with Font Awesome icons and smooth animations  </li>
<li><strong>Server-side Rendering:</strong> SEO-friendly with proper WordPress block architecture</li>
<li><strong>Automatic URL Inclusion:</strong> Event descriptions automatically include the page URL for reference</li>
<li><strong>Responsive Design:</strong> Works beautifully on desktop and mobile devices</li>
<li><strong>Multilingual Support:</strong> Available in English, Polish, German, Spanish, and French</li>
<li><strong>Fair Pricing Model:</strong> No premium tiers or hidden features – everything is included</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Supported Calendar Providers:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>🌐 Google Calendar – Opens directly in Google Calendar</li>
<li>🏢 Microsoft Outlook – Compatible with Outlook.com and Office 365</li>
<li>🟣 Yahoo Calendar – Direct integration with Yahoo Calendar</li>
<li>💾 ICS Download – Universal calendar file for any calendar application</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Perfect For:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Event organizers and venues</li>
<li>Businesses hosting webinars or meetings</li>
<li>Content creators with scheduled events</li>
<li>Anyone wanting to make it easy for visitors to save events</li>
</ul>
<p>The plugin uses server-side rendering for better performance and SEO, while providing a smooth user experience with JavaScript enhancements.</p>
<h3>1.5.2</h3>
<h3>Patch Changes</h3>
<ul>
<li>7e7ea9c: Update version tested up to version to 6.9.</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.5.1</h3>
<h3>Patch Changes</h3>
<ul>
<li>4ed3721: Add location to fair-events</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.5.0</h3>
<h3>Minor Changes</h3>
<ul>
<li>13fb665: Integrate button with Fair Events content type</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.4.0</h3>
<h3>Minor Changes</h3>
<ul>
<li>f901aa2: Add support to Plausible integration</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.3.2</h3>
<h3>Patch Changes</h3>
<ul>
<li>84fe629: Set correctly supported version</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.3.1</h3>
<h3>Patch Changes</h3>
<ul>
<li>Add missing translation</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.3.0</h3>
<h3>Minor Changes</h3>
<ul>
<li>Add translations to PL, DE, ES and FR</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.2.0</h3>
<h3>Minor Changes</h3>
<ul>
<li>Fix multiple UX issues in block</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.1.1</h3>
<h3>Patch Changes</h3>
<ul>
<li>Update dependencies to the newest version</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.1.0</h3>
<h3>Minor Changes</h3>
<ul>
<li>99a2038: Change format of recurrence description in block attributes.</li>
</ul>
<p>All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.</p>
<p>The format is based on <a href="https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/" rel="nofollow ugc">Keep a Changelog</a>,<br />
and this project adheres to <a href="https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html" rel="nofollow ugc">Semantic Versioning</a>.</p>
<h3>[1.0.0] – 2025-01-30</h3>
<h3>Added</h3>
<ul>
<li>Initial release of Fair Calendar Button</li>
<li>Gutenberg block for calendar event integration</li>
<li>Support for multiple calendar providers:
<ul>
<li>Google Calendar</li>
<li>Microsoft Outlook</li>
<li>Yahoo Calendar</li>
<li>ICS file download</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Modern dropdown UI with Font Awesome SVG icons</li>
<li>Server-side rendering for better SEO performance</li>
<li>Automatic URL inclusion in event descriptions</li>
<li>Responsive design for all device sizes</li>
<li>WordPress 5.8+ compatibility</li>
<li>PHP 8.0+ requirement</li>
</ul>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Clean, professional dropdown interface</li>
<li>Brand-specific hover effects for each calendar provider</li>
<li>Smooth animations and transitions</li>
<li>Uses WordPress core button block for maximum theme compatibility</li>
<li>No external API dependencies</li>
<li>GDPR compliant (no data collection)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Technical</h3>
<ul>
<li>Built with modern WordPress block development practices</li>
<li>Uses block.json for block registration</li>
<li>Font Awesome SVG icons (tree-shaken for performance)</li>
<li>ES6+ JavaScript with webpack compilation</li>
<li>Follows WordPress PHP and JavaScript coding standards</li>
<li>Server-side rendering with render.php</li>
<li>Namespace isolation to prevent conflicts</li>
</ul>
<h3>Developer Notes</h3>
<p>This plugin is built with modern WordPress development practices:</p>
<ul>
<li>Uses WordPress’s block.json for block registration</li>
<li>Server-side rendering with render.php</li>
<li>Font Awesome SVG icons (not CSS) for better performance</li>
<li>ES6+ JavaScript with webpack compilation</li>
<li>Follows WordPress PHP and JavaScript coding standards</li>
</ul>
<p>The plugin is open source and contributions are welcome on GitHub: https://github.com/marcin-wosinek/fair-event-plugins</p>


Fair Calendar Button

A Gutenberg block for calendar integration.

Spiffy Plugins

Bev at Spiffy Plugins

<p>Manage and display your events in a responsive calendar with multiple views, widgets and shortcodes. Color-coded categories and recurrence support. The premium <a href="https://spiffyplugins.ca/spiffycalendar/bonus-add-ons/" rel="nofollow ugc">Bonus Add-Ons</a> supplements the plugin with additional themes, customizer support, ICS export, front end submit, CSV import/export and custom fields.</p>
<blockquote>
<p><a href="https://spiffyplugins.ca/spiffycalendar" rel="nofollow ugc">Demo and Documentation</a></p>
<p><a href="https://spiffyplugins.ca/spiffycalendar/css-snippets/" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here</a> for helpful CSS snippets.</p>
<p><a href="https://spiffyplugins.ca/spiffycalendar/bonus-add-ons/" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here</a> to learn about Bonus Add-Ons.</p>
</blockquote>
<h3>Features</h3>
<h4>Post/page displays:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Standard monthly calendar grid that toggles to a list view</li>
<li>Category filter in the monthly calendar grid</li>
<li>Responsive 3-column event listing</li>
<li>Mini-calendar view for compact displays</li>
<li>Weekly calendar grid</li>
<li>Today’s events list</li>
<li>Upcoming events list</li>
</ul>
<h4>Widgets:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Featured event</li>
<li>Today’s events list</li>
<li>Upcoming events list</li>
<li>Mini Calendar</li>
</ul>
<h4>Categories:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Color-coded categories</li>
<li>Option to display category color as background or foreground on the standard calendar grid</li>
<li>Displays may be filtered by category list</li>
<li>Optional sort categories alphabetically </li>
<li>Live category filter on the full calendar</li>
</ul>
<h4>Other features:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Mouse-over details for each event</li>
<li>Choice of popup, columns or expanded display of lists</li>
<li>Events can display their author (optional)</li>
<li>Add custom CSS styles or just use the defaults</li>
<li>Display upcoming events in your MailPoet newsletters</li>
<li>Display week number in the full calendar</li>
<li>Filters to allow additional formatting</li>
<li>Optional responsive display for the full size calendar</li>
<li>Optional drop down boxes to quickly change month and year</li>
<li>Front end quick links to edit/delete events for logged in admins</li>
</ul>
<h4>Enter and display for each event:</h4>
<ul>
<li>title, </li>
<li>description, </li>
<li>location,</li>
<li>link to Google map,</li>
<li>event category, </li>
<li>status,</li>
<li>link, </li>
<li>event start/end date</li>
<li>event start/end time</li>
<li>event recurrence details</li>
<li>event hiding details</li>
<li>event image</li>
<li>custom fields <a href="https://spiffyplugins.ca/spiffycalendar/bonus-add-ons/" rel="nofollow ugc">(premium)</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Schedule a wide variety of recurring events.</h4>
<ul>
<li>Events can repeat on a daily (set numbers of days), weekly, monthly (by date), monthly (by day of week) or yearly basis</li>
<li>Repeats can occur indefinitely or a limited number of times</li>
<li>Events can span more than one day</li>
</ul>
<h4>Hide all events for specific days:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Hide repeating event for a single day such as a holiday</li>
<li>Hide full days of events that span more than one day</li>
<li>Substitute new title to replace hidden events</li>
<li>Select override based on category</li>
</ul>
<h4>Easy to use events manager in admin dashboard</h4>
<ul>
<li>Comprehensive settings panel for admin</li>
<li>User groups other than admin can be permitted to manage events</li>
<li>Authors can be restricted to editing their own events only</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>BONUS FEATURES AVAILABLE WITH DONATION</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Premium themes</li>
<li>Live theme customizer</li>
<li>ICS export</li>
<li>Front End submit form with captcha</li>
<li>Front End edit/delete events</li>
<li>Import/Export events via CSV</li>
<li>Custom fields</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://spiffyplugins.ca/spiffycalendar/bonus-add-ons/" rel="nofollow ugc">Learn more about bonus add-ons</a></p>


Spiffy Calendar

Manage and display your events in a responsive calendar with multiple views, widgets and shortcodes. Color-coded categories and recurrence support.

Fair Calendar Button vs Spiffy Calendar