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.

Joe Dolson

<p><a href="https://joedolson.com/my-calendar/" rel="nofollow ugc">My Calendar</a> offers easy-to-use WordPress event management with rich options for custom displays. Display individual event calendars in WordPress Multisite, offer multiple views of calendars limited by event categories, locations or author, or show simple text-based lists of your upcoming events.</p>
<h4>Rich Event Calendar Features</h4>
<p>You’ll find enormous design flexibility for your custom calendar. With recurring event support, design customization tools, custom templating, and category and venue support out of the box, My Calendar gives you a great feature set to get your calendar set up.</p>
<h4>Built with Accessibility in Mind</h4>
<p>My Calendar is an events calendar focused on holistic accessibility: providing a positive experience for site visitors and administrators who use assistive technology. It includes built-in settings where you can describe the ADA compliance features of your events and venues. Accessibility is a critical part of your website, so your audience can get equal access and experience to the events you list.</p>
<p>Learn about <a href="https://docs.joedolson.com/my-calendar/event-accessibility/" rel="nofollow ugc">accessible events</a> or <a href="https://demos.joedolson.com/my-calendar/" rel="nofollow ugc">visit the My Calendar demo</a></p>
<h4>Accessibility-first Software</h4>
<p>While My Calendar has a strong focus on backwards compatibility, it is officially built with an accessibility first mindset. That means that if a choice has to be made between improving accessibility and breaking backwards compatibility, the more accessible choice will always come first.</p>
<h4>Premium Event Management</h4>
<p>Looking for more? <a href="https://www.joedolson.com/my-calendar/pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Buy My Calendar Pro</a>, the premium extension for My Calendar.</p>
<p>My Calendar Pro adds tons of great additional features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Support for user-submitted events,</li>
<li>Custom field creation and management,</li>
<li>integration between posting and event creation,</li>
<li>Import events from outside sources, and</li>
<li>support for sharing events between multiple sites.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Sell Event Tickets</h4>
<p>Do you sell tickets for your events? <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/my-tickets/" rel="ugc">Use My Tickets</a> and sell tickets for My Calendar events. Set prices, ticket availability, and sell multiple events at the same time using My Tickets.</p>
<h4>Features:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Calendar grid, card, and list views of events</li>
<li>Month, multi-month, week, or daily view.</li>
<li>Mini-calendar for compact displays (as widget or shortcode)</li>
<li>Widgets: today’s events, upcoming events, mini calendar, event search</li>
<li>Customize templates for event output</li>
<li>Limit views by categories, location, author, or host</li>
<li>Extensive support for recurring events.</li>
<li>Edit or add single dates in recurring events</li>
<li>Rich permissions handling to restrict access to parts of My Calendar</li>
<li>Email notifications when events are scheduled or drafted</li>
<li>Post to X, Bluesky, or Mastodon when events are created (using <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-to-twitter/" rel="ugc">XPoster</a>)</li>
<li>Event location management</li>
<li>Fetch events from a remote database. (Sharing events in a network of sites.)</li>
<li>Multisite-friendly</li>
<li>Integrated help page</li>
<li>Shortcode Generator to create customized views of My Calendar</li>
<li>SEO with JSON-LD structured data for events and venues.</li>
<li>Export or subscribe via iCal or Google Calendar.</li>
<li>Completely responsive events views</li>
<li>Extensive <a href="https://docs.joedolson.com/my-calendar/" rel="nofollow ugc">public documentation</a>.</li>
<li>Hundreds of <a href="https://joedolson.github.io/my-calendar/" rel="nofollow ugc">actions and filters for custom development</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Accessibility</h4>
<p>My Calendar is designed with accessibility in mind. All interfaces – both front and back end – are tested with various assistive technology.</p>
<p>The plugin includes features for showing the accessibility services available for events and at physical venues, as well as providing access to your event information for users with disabilities.</p>
<h4>What’s in My Calendar Pro?</h4>
<ul>
<li>Let your site visitors submit events to your site (pay to post or free!).</li>
<li>Let logged-in users edit their events from the front-end.</li>
<li>Custom field creator</li>
<li>Create events when you publish a blog post</li>
<li>Publish a blog post when you create an event</li>
<li>Advanced search features</li>
<li>Import events from .ics or .csv formats via file or URL.</li>
<li>REST API support for sharing events between multiple sites.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Translations</h4>
<p>Visit <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/my-calendar" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Translations</a> to check progress or contribute to your language.</p>
<p>Translating my plugins is always appreciated. Visit <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/my-calendar" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress translations</a> to help get your language to 100%!</p>


My Calendar – Accessible Event Manager

Great plugin - I tried many calendars for my class schedule and this was the only one that WORKED! I love all the detailed setup options for developers, with the ability to change text and colors. Haven't played with the templates yet but I'm excited to do so. 

Had an issue and developer was super-responsive, resolving it and fixing with care. Thank you!

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This is a great plugin! I have used this on many different kinds of sites and after several years there has yet to be a problem I have to solve with a calendar that this plugin cannot handle!


Great Plugin for Everything

Accessible WordPress event calendar plugin. Manage single or recurring events, event venues, and display your calendar anywhere on your site.

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