Dan-Lucian Stefancu

Manuel Schmalstieg

<p>This plugin (MEM or Minimalistic Event Manager) is intended for theme authors and developers who want a simple, robust and flexible solution for managing event dates.</p>
<p>The MEM plugin offers a clean interface that allows to add <em>event dates</em> (start dates, end dates, repeating dates) to <em>posts</em> (and to any custom post type).</p>
<h4>The main features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Event dates can be attached to any post type: Posts, Pages, Custom Post Types… (optionally, they can be restricted to specific content types).</li>
<li>Event dates can be of three types: start dates, end dates, repeating dates.</li>
<li>There is no mandatory date format: Time, Day, and Month are optional. An event date could be “January 2046”, or just “2046”.</li>
</ul>
<h4>What the plugin doesn’t do</h4>
<p>The MEM plugin works as a simple interface for entering those dates into custom fields, but it won’t do much on the public side of your theme (there’s a simple widget for displaying a list of events).</p>
<p>The plugin was created primarily to enable theme developers to create their own display of events on the front-end.</p>
<p>If you aren’t sure how to achieve this, <a href="https://github.com/ms-studio/minimalistic-event-manager/wiki" rel="nofollow ugc">our wiki</a> will provide a collection of examples to get you started.</p>
<h4>Technical implementation</h4>
<p>Technically, the MEM plugin stores the dates as ordinary Custom Fields, in a <em>machine-readable</em> format (such as “2016-11-23 13:37”). This gives you absolute freedom for displaying your events in your theme:</p>
<ul>
<li>You can query for specific date ranges by using the meta_key / meta_compare parameters.</li>
<li>You can use the php <code>date</code> function to display the date in any possible manner (or <code>date_i18n</code> for proper localization).</li>
</ul>
<h4>Plugin options</h4>
<p>The plugin has two settings that can be modified with a few lines in your <code>functions.php</code> file:</p>
<ul>
<li>You can limit it to specific post types.</li>
<li>You can use an “alpha” mode, which gives you a blank input field for each date. This can be useful if you need to enter dates that don’t fit the predefined format.</li>
</ul>
<p>See the online documentation for the full instructions.</p>
<h4>Links</h4>
<p><a href="https://github.com/ms-studio/minimalistic-event-manager/wiki" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Documentation</strong></a></p>
<h4>Credits</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Concept and maintenance</strong> <a href="http://ms-studio.net" rel="nofollow ugc">ms-studio.net</a></li>
<li><strong>Initial development</strong>: <a href="http://dreamproduction.net/" rel="nofollow ugc">Dream Production</a></li>
</ul>


Minimalistic Event Manager

A simple and flexible solution for managing event dates.

Paul Newman

<p>A simple but effective Calendar plugin for WordPress that allows you to manage your events and appointments and display them to the world on your website. The Plus is that Two seperate calendars may be used. Also a smaller displayed version of the Calendar to better fit into page or post content.<br />
This can be used as a drop-in replacement for the original Calendar plguin.</p>
<p>Features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Monthly view of events</li>
<li>Mouse-over details for each event</li>
<li>Events can have a timestamp (optional)</li>
<li>Events can display their author (optional)</li>
<li>Events can span more than one day</li>
<li>Multiple events per day possible</li>
<li>Events can repeat on a weekly, monthly (set numerical day), monthly (set textual day) or yearly basis</li>
<li>Repeats can occur indefinitely or a limited number of times</li>
<li>Easy to use events manager in admin dashboard</li>
<li>Sidebar function/Widget to show todays events</li>
<li>Sidebar function/Widget to show upcoming events</li>
<li>Lists of todays events can be displayed in posts or pages</li>
<li>Lists of upcoming events can be displayed in posts or pages</li>
<li>Comprehensive options panel for admin</li>
<li>Modifiable CSS using the options panel</li>
<li>Optional drop down boxes to quickly change month and year</li>
<li>User groups other than admin can be permitted to manage events</li>
<li>Events can be placed into categories</li>
<li>A calendar of events for just one of more categories can be displayed</li>
<li>Categories system can be switched on or off</li>
<li>Pop up javascript calendars help the choosing of dates</li>
<li>Events can be links pointing to a location of your choice</li>
<li>Full internationalisation is possible</li>
<li>Comaptible with WordPress MU</li>
<li>Two seperate Calendars can be setup and used</li>
<li>Calendar can be full-size or small size to fit into page or post content</li>
<li>Drop in replacement for original Calendar plugin</li>
</ul>


Calendar Plus

A simple Calendar plugin for WordPress that allows 2 seperate calendars. This can be used as a drop-in replacement for the original Calendar plugin.

Minimalistic Event Manager vs Calendar Plus