Randy Breland

<p><strong>Try It Live – Preview This Plugin Instantly</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://playground.wordpress.net/?blueprint-url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brelandr/planit-event-manager/main/blueprint.json" rel="nofollow ugc">Preview on WordPress Playground</a></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>Try PlanIt Premium live (full Premium features)</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://app.instawp.io/launch?s=planit---demo&d=v2" rel="nofollow ugc">Launch PlanIt Event Manager Premium on InstaWP</a></p>
<p>Use this link to open a <strong>temporary WordPress sandbox</strong> with <strong>PlanIt Premium</strong> 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 <strong>free</strong> plugin from WordPress.org.)</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>Upgrade to Premium</strong> 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!</p>
<p>Visit <a href="https://landtechwebdesigns.com/planit-event-manager-premium" rel="nofollow ugc">https://landtechwebdesigns.com/planit-event-manager-premium</a> to upgrade.</p>
<h4>Free Version Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Event Calendar Views:</strong> Stunning Day and Month calendar views to display your events beautifully</li>
<li><strong>List View:</strong> Display events in a clean, chronological list format for easy browsing</li>
<li><strong>Event Management:</strong> Complete event calendar management – create, edit, and delete events with full details</li>
<li><strong>Venues & Organizers:</strong> Manage venues and organizers separately for better event calendar organization</li>
<li><strong>Event Categories & Tags:</strong> Organize your event calendar with categories and tags for better navigation</li>
<li><strong>Hide Past Events:</strong> Automatically hide past events from your event calendar to keep it current</li>
<li><strong>Google Maps Integration:</strong> Display venue locations on interactive maps in your event calendar (requires API key)</li>
<li><strong>iCal & Google Calendar Export:</strong> Export events from your event calendar to external calendar applications</li>
<li><strong>Responsive Event Calendar Design:</strong> Your event calendar looks perfect on all devices – desktop, tablet, and mobile</li>
<li><strong>Event Calendar Widget:</strong> Upcoming events widget for sidebars to showcase your event calendar</li>
<li><strong>Event Calendar Shortcodes:</strong> Easy calendar and list embedding anywhere on your site</li>
<li><strong>Event Calendar Search & Filter:</strong> Powerful search and filtering to help visitors find events quickly</li>
<li><strong>PlanIt Event Search (AI, opt-in):</strong> Natural-language event search block and shortcode for visitors when AI is enabled under Events <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Settings</li>
<li><strong>Featured Images:</strong> 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>
<p>This plugin makes use of the following third-party services:</p>
<h3>Google Maps JavaScript API</h3>
<p>What it is: Google Maps JavaScript API for displaying event locations.</p>
<p>Data sent: The user’s browser sends the site’s API key and the visitor’s IP address to Google when viewing a map.</p>
<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>
<p>What it is: <strong>InstaWP</strong> provides temporary WordPress sites. The <strong>“Launch PlanIt Event Manager Premium on InstaWP”</strong> link in this readme opens their launcher so you can try <strong>PlanIt Premium</strong> without installing it on your own server.</p>
<p>Data sent: Your browser loads InstaWP; standard web data (for example IP address, referrer) may be processed per InstaWP’s policies.</p>
<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>
<p>What it is: When you enable AI under <strong>Events <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Settings <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> AI</strong>, PlanIt uses WordPress 7.0’s <strong>WP AI Client</strong> and your site’s configured <strong>connector</strong> (for example OpenAI or Anthropic via <strong>Settings <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Connectors</strong>). PlanIt does not ship API keys.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>When: Only when you opt in via settings and a connector is configured.</p>
<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>
<p><strong>👆 Click the preview link at the top of this page</strong> to try PlanIt Event Manager instantly – no installation required!</p>
<p>The live preview includes:<br />
* WordPress and plugin pre-configured and ready to explore<br />
* 6 sample events (conferences, workshops, concerts, webinars)<br />
* 3 venues with full address details<br />
* 3 organizers with contact information<br />
* Event categories and tags<br />
* A demo page showcasing calendar and list views</p>
<p><strong>Direct Preview Links:</strong><br />
* <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><br />
* <a href="https://app.instawp.io/launch?s=planit---demo&d=v2" rel="nofollow ugc">Launch <strong>PlanIt Premium</strong> live demo on InstaWP</a> (week/year views, recurring events, and more)<br />
* <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/planit-event-manager/" rel="ugc">View on WordPress.org</a> (includes Preview button for the free plugin)</p>


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.

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!

Finally - A Robust Calendar that WORKS!


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.

PlanIt Event Manager – Responsive Event Calendar & Management Plugin vs My Calendar – Accessible Event Manager