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Launch an interactive demo with WordPress, the plugin, and sample events already configured – no installation required! Click the link above to explore all features in your browser.
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<a href="https://app.instawp.io/launch?s=planit---demo&d=v2" rel="nofollow ugc">Launch PlanIt Event Manager Premium on InstaWP</a>
Use this link to open a temporary WordPress sandbox with PlanIt Premium and the free companion pre-configured—explore week/year views, recurring events, and other Premium-only tools. (This is separate from the WordPress Playground preview above, which showcases the free plugin from WordPress.org.)
PlanIt Event Manager is the perfect free event calendar plugin for WordPress. This comprehensive event calendar solution makes it easy to create, manage, and display events on your website with beautiful calendar views and intuitive event management tools. Whether you’re organizing conferences, workshops, concerts, or any type of event, this event calendar provides everything you need to keep your visitors informed.
With powerful calendar views, list displays, venue management, and seamless WordPress integration, PlanIt Event Manager is the ideal event calendar for businesses, organizations, and bloggers. The responsive design ensures your event calendar looks perfect on all devices, while the flexible customization options let you create the perfect event calendar experience for your site.
Upgrade to Premium for advanced features like Week View, Year View, Photo View, Map View, Recurring Events, Custom Fields, Event Series, Featured Events, CSV Import, and much more!
Visit <a href="https://landtechwebdesigns.com/planit-event-manager-premium" rel="nofollow ugc">https://landtechwebdesigns.com/planit-event-manager-premium</a> to upgrade.
<h4>Free Version Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Event Calendar Views: Stunning Day and Month calendar views to display your events beautifully</li>
<li>List View: Display events in a clean, chronological list format for easy browsing</li>
<li>Event Management: Complete event calendar management – create, edit, and delete events with full details</li>
<li>Venues & Organizers: Manage venues and organizers separately for better event calendar organization</li>
<li>Event Categories & Tags: Organize your event calendar with categories and tags for better navigation</li>
<li>Hide Past Events: Automatically hide past events from your event calendar to keep it current</li>
<li>Google Maps Integration: Display venue locations on interactive maps in your event calendar (requires API key)</li>
<li>iCal & Google Calendar Export: Export events from your event calendar to external calendar applications</li>
<li>Responsive Event Calendar Design: Your event calendar looks perfect on all devices – desktop, tablet, and mobile</li>
<li>Event Calendar Widget: Upcoming events widget for sidebars to showcase your event calendar</li>
<li>Event Calendar Shortcodes: Easy calendar and list embedding anywhere on your site</li>
<li>Event Calendar Search & Filter: Powerful search and filtering to help visitors find events quickly</li>
<li>PlanIt Event Search (AI, opt-in): Natural-language event search block and shortcode for visitors when AI is enabled under Events → Settings</li>
<li>Featured Images: Add beautiful images to events in your event calendar</li>
</ul>
<h4>Premium Features (Available in Premium Version)</h4>
<ul>
<li>Week View – See your week at a glance</li>
<li>Year View – Annual overview</li>
<li>Photo View – Visual grid with event images</li>
<li>Map View – Interactive map with event locations</li>
<li>Recurring Events – Create repeating events automatically</li>
<li>Custom Fields – Add unlimited custom data to events</li>
<li>Event Series – Group related events together</li>
<li>Featured Events – Highlight important events</li>
<li>CSV Import – Bulk import events from spreadsheet</li>
<li>The Events Calendar Import – Migrate from other plugins</li>
<li>Event Cost/Price – Display event pricing</li>
<li>Event Website – Link to external event pages</li>
<li>Event Timezone – Per-event timezone support</li>
<li>RSS Feed – Events RSS feed</li>
<li>Advanced Widgets – Featured Events, Event Series, Countdown widgets</li>
<li>RSVP door check-in – QR manifest printing and mobile-friendly check-in for confirmed RSVPs (Premium)</li>
</ul>
<h3>External services</h3>
This plugin makes use of the following third-party services:
<h3>Google Maps JavaScript API</h3>
What it is: Google Maps JavaScript API for displaying event locations.
Data sent: The user’s browser sends the site’s API key and the visitor’s IP address to Google when viewing a map.
<ul>
<li><a href="https://developers.google.com/maps/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a></li>
<li><a href="https://policies.google.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>InstaWP (optional Premium live demo)</h3>
What it is: InstaWP provides temporary WordPress sites. The “Launch PlanIt Event Manager Premium on InstaWP” link in this readme opens their launcher so you can try PlanIt Premium without installing it on your own server.
Data sent: Your browser loads InstaWP; standard web data (for example IP address, referrer) may be processed per InstaWP’s policies.
<ul>
<li><a href="https://instawp.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">InstaWP</a></li>
<li><a href="https://instawp.com/privacy-policy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>WordPress AI / Connectors (optional)</h3>
What it is: When you enable AI under Events → Settings → AI, PlanIt uses WordPress 7.0’s WP AI Client and your site’s configured connector (for example OpenAI or Anthropic via Settings → Connectors). PlanIt does not ship API keys.
Data sent: Prompt text and event context (titles, dates, venue names, categories, excerpts) for admin assist; for the public Event Assistant and Event Search blocks, upcoming event titles/dates/URLs and the visitor’s question or search phrase. Visitor IP is used locally for rate limiting only and is not sent to the AI provider. RSVP emails, payment data, and attendee PII are not sent to AI providers.
When: Only when you opt in via settings and a connector is configured.
<ul>
<li><a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/wordpress-ai/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress AI documentation</a></li>
<li>Review your chosen connector plugin’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy (for example OpenAI or Anthropic policies on their respective sites).</li>
</ul>
<h3>Try It Live</h3>
👆 Click the preview link at the top of this page to try PlanIt Event Manager instantly – no installation required!
The live preview includes: 
* WordPress and plugin pre-configured and ready to explore 
* 6 sample events (conferences, workshops, concerts, webinars) 
* 3 venues with full address details 
* 3 organizers with contact information 
* Event categories and tags 
* A demo page showcasing calendar and list views
Direct Preview Links: 
* <a href="https://playground.wordpress.net/?blueprint-url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brelandr/planit-event-manager/main/blueprint.json" rel="nofollow ugc">Preview free plugin on WordPress Playground</a> 
* <a href="https://app.instawp.io/launch?s=planit---demo&d=v2" rel="nofollow ugc">Launch PlanIt Premium live demo on InstaWP</a> (week/year views, recurring events, and more) 
* <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/planit-event-manager/" rel="ugc">View on WordPress.org</a> (includes Preview button for the free plugin)

PlanIt Event Manager – Responsive Event Calendar & Management Plugin

Free WordPress event calendar with calendar views, event management, venues, and organizers. The perfect event calendar solution for any website.

Timely Calendar Team

The <a href="https://time.ly/solutions/all-in-one-event-calendar-wordpress-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">Timely All-in-One Events Calendar</a> is a FREE events calendar plugin, trusted by 150,000+ event creators around the globe, including Mastercard, AT&T, Adobe, Stanford University, the University of Bristol, and the California State government.
It allows you to easily create, manage and share your events with the rest of the world, whether they are in-person, virtual or hybrid.
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<h4>🗓️ The Best Events Calendar WP Plugin</h4>
Our events calendar plugin is the most advanced website calendar system available for WordPress. It was created with the latest technology, and combines a beautiful and modern design with a powerful set of features.
Our plugin is known in the WP community for its great UI/UX and attractive visuals. In addition, it has built-in RSVP and ticketing features so you can collect registrations and sell tickets directly from your calendar. Timely is considered by experts as one of the most advanced WP calendar plugins available in the market.
Besides being fully customizable and extremely easy to use, Timely’s plugin is 100% mobile responsive, and accessible for the community with disabilities.
…all WITHOUT needing a coder or designer…saving you time and money.
<h4>❤️ The Events Calendar Most Loved by Event Creators Around the World</h4>
Timely’s <a href="https://time.ly/solutions/all-in-one-event-calendar-wordpress-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">All-in-One Event Calendar</a> is made for freelancers and solo entrepreneurs, who are looking for a free but powerful event calendar to start or power up their event-related business.
If you are an event planner or event manager, and work for a small, medium or large organization that needs more sophisticated event management tools, check out our <a href="https://time.ly/solutions/event-calendar-software/" rel="nofollow ugc">Event Calendar Software</a>, our <a href="https://time.ly/event-management-software-features/" rel="nofollow ugc">enterprise level features</a>, and <a href="https://time.ly/pricing/" rel="nofollow ugc">paid plans</a>.
<h4>🌟 Features</h4>
Our free events calendar plugin is feature-rich. Download the plugin and get all the following features for FREE:
<ul>
<li>Beautiful and attractive event calendar for your website.</li>
<li>Several out of the box calendar themes for you to choose from.</li>
<li>Customize your theme, colours and fonts to personalize your calendar appearance to match your brand and style, as well as header, footer and CSS.</li>
<li>Display your public calendar on week, month or agenda views. Additional calendar views available on paid plans.</li>
<li>Setup different views for calendar on mobile and on desktop.</li>
<li>Easy event creation and publishing.</li>
<li>Create in-person, virtual and hybrid events.</li>
<li>Single day, multiple days, all day events.</li>
<li>Recurring events, including complex patterns.</li>
<li>Duplicate events with ease.</li>
<li>Set the timezone of your events, and display it on either yours or your website visitors’ timezone.</li>
<li>Event venue and organizer tag system. Add multiple event organizers to your events.</li>
<li>Search box to search for events by keyword, as well as by date, month and year.</li>
<li>Filtering events by categories, tags, organizers and venues. Custom filters available on paid plans.</li>
<li>Colour-coded events based on category.</li>
<li>Media library to facilitate media upload.</li>
<li>Featured event images and category images.</li>
<li>Allow or disallow your audience to subscribe to your calendar.</li>
<li>Easy importing events using CSV or ICS files. Additional calendar import options available on paid plans.</li>
<li>Social share buttons, so your audience can share events directly from your calendar.</li>
<li>Calendar and events are SEO-optimized, Event Schema ready and with Good Web Core Vitals.</li>
<li>Your calendar can be embedded into a WordPress page without needing to create template files or modify the theme.</li>
<li>Collect event registrations (RSVP) or sell event tickets directly from your event calendar, with a pay per use charge.</li>
<li>Free support via written documentation and video tutorials available on our <a href="https://help.time.ly/" rel="nofollow ugc">Help Center</a>.</li>
</ul>
Timely is a <a href="https://time.ly/blog/cloud-vs-on-premise-pros-and-cons-for-event-platforms/" rel="nofollow ugc">cloud-based solution</a>, so you can do all this and more without sacrificing your website storage space or performance.
What are you waiting for? Download <a href="https://time.ly/solutions/all-in-one-event-calendar-wordpress-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">Timely All-in-One Event Calendar Plugin</a> now and sign up for a free account!
<h4>🌐 Languages</h4>
Timely’s application dashboard has been translated into the following languages (in alphabetical order): Dutch | English | French | German | Italian | Norwegian | Portuguese (BR) | Portuguese (PT) | Spanish
Timely’s events calendar public interface has been translated into the following languages(in alphabetical order): Arabic | Chinese | Danish | Dutch | English (UK) | English (US) | French | German | Italian | Japanese | Korean | Norwegian | Polish | Portuguese(BR) | Portuguese (PT) | Spanish | Turkish | Swedish | Vietnamese. Other languages are available upon request.
<h4>💁🏼‍♀️ Service</h4>
The <a href="https://time.ly/solutions/all-in-one-event-calendar-wordpress-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">All-in-One Event Calendar</a> is a SaaS service provided by <a href="https://time.ly/" rel="nofollow ugc">Time.ly</a>. After installing the plugin, you will need to create and activate a Timely free account in order to use it.
While free accounts are free, we may require you to input your credit card details in order to create an account with us. This request is mainly aimed at preventing spam registrations and verifying your authenticity. Moreover, providing your credit card upfront allows you to utilize our integrated event registration and ticketing system, if you wish to do so. Please note that the use of our integrated event registration and ticketing system is subject to <a href="https://time.ly/legal/ticketing-terms-of-service/" rel="nofollow ugc">Timely Ticketing Terms of Service</a>. This particular Service is not provided free of charge, and fees are based on usage. Therefore, if you choose not to use our registration or ticketing system, no charges will be imposed. Currently, we charge 2.5% + US$ 0.90 per registration or ticket sold (fees are paid by ticket buyers, unless you choose to cover them).
If you are looking for more advanced features, like more calendar view options, more importing events functionalities, integrated event submission form, and social media integrations, check our <a href="https://time.ly/event-management-software-features" rel="nofollow ugc">feature list</a> and consider upgrading to one of our <a href="https://time.ly/pricing/" rel="nofollow ugc">premium paid plans</a>.
<h4>🤓 Some Geeky Facts</h4>
<ul>
<li>Responsive and works perfectly on all devices (desktop, laptop, tablet and mobile).</li>
<li>Compatible with major web-browsers (Chrome, Safari, iOS, Android, Edge, Firefox and Internet Explorer v.11).</li>
<li>Accessible for individuals with disabilities (Section 508 and WCAG 2.1 AA Level compliant)</li>
<li>Average uptime is 99.5%</li>
<li>HTML5 dashboard</li>
<li>Available short-code</li>
</ul>
<h4>📒 Read More</h4>
Want more information on Timely’s events calendar WordPress plugin? Have a look at:
<ul>
<li>Timely <a href="https://time.ly/demo/" rel="nofollow ugc">Demo Events Calendar</a></li>
<li>Timely Official <a href="https://time.ly/" rel="nofollow ugc">Homepage</a></li>
<li>Timely <a href="https://help.time.ly/event-management/" rel="nofollow ugc">Help Center</a></li>
<li>Timely <a href="https://help.time.ly/ems-video-tutorials/" rel="nofollow ugc">Video Tutorials</a></li>
<li>Timely <a href="https://time.ly/why-timely/customer-testimonials/" rel="nofollow ugc">Reviews and Customer Testimonials</a></li>
<li>Timely <a href="https://time.ly/blog/category/case-study/" rel="nofollow ugc">Case Studies</a></li>
<li>Timely <a href="https://time.ly/newsroom/" rel="nofollow ugc">Press Mentions</a></li>
<li>Timely <a href="https://time.ly/blog/" rel="nofollow ugc">Event Management Blog</a></li>
<li>Also follow Timely on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/timely/" rel="nofollow ugc">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/timely.network" rel="nofollow ugc">Facebook</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/_timely" rel="nofollow ugc">Twitter</a>.</li>
</ul>
Please note that we DO NOT provide live support to free users. Free WordPress calendar plugin users are only supported with self service user documentation and video tutorials that can be found on our <a href="https://help.time.ly/" rel="nofollow ugc">Help Center</a>. You can also check the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/all-in-one-event-calendar/" rel="ugc">All-in-One Event Calendar forum here on WordPress.org</a>, which is the place where community members help one another.
If you need official customer support from us, consider upgrading to a <a href="https://time.ly/pricing/" rel="nofollow ugc">paid plan</a>.
Please note that we no longer support Timely’s WP events calendar version 3.0.0 (old platform), 2.6.8 or older (deprecated / superseded). If you are having issues with these versions, we recommend migrating to the new platform by downloading and installing the plugin again. Do not forget to create a back up of your WP installation database before doing that.
Still have questions about our event management software solutions? Please <a href="https://time.ly/contact/" rel="nofollow ugc">contact us</a>.
<h4>⚖️ Legal</h4>
By creating or activating an account and/or embedding the code into a website, you agree to Timely’s <a href="https://time.ly/terms-of-service/" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a> and policies. Please note that to provide you with our services, we sometimes send you service announcements and other information.
To learn more about what personal data we collect from you and how we use it, please check our <a href="https://time.ly/privacy-policy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a>.

Timely All-in-One Events Calendar


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Timely All-in-One Events Calendar is a free WordPress plugin trusted by 150,000+ event creators worldwide. Easily create, manage and share events.

PlanIt Event Manager – Responsive Event Calendar & Management Plugin vs Timely All-in-One Events Calendar