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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.
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<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
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* <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) 
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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.

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<h4>About</h4>
With this lightweight plugin you can create an event list.
Main features of the plugin:
<ul>
<li>Free and lightweight</li>
<li>Support for Block Editor and Classic Editor</li>
<li>Display your event list with block, shortcode or widget</li>
<li>Display upcoming and past events</li>
<li>Share events via RSS or iCal feed</li>
<li>Organise events with categories</li>
<li>Customize your event list via the settings page or with attributes</li>
<li>Add extra content to events with the Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin</li>
<li>Documentation at WP plugin page</li>
<li>Active support from developer at WP forum</li>
</ul>
<h4>How to use</h4>
After installation go to menu item “Events” and create some events.
Go to the editor and add the VS Event List block or the shortcode <code>[vsel]</code> to a page. This will display your event list.
Or go to Appearance > Widgets and use the VS Event List widget.
When using the shortcode add the <code>list</code> attribute to display the events you want.
<ul>
<li><code>[vsel list="upcoming"]</code> to display upcoming events (today included)</li>
<li><code>[vsel list="future"]</code> to display future events (today not included)</li>
<li><code>[vsel list="current"]</code> to display current events</li>
<li><code>[vsel list="past"]</code> to display past events (before today)</li>
<li><code>[vsel list="all"]</code> to display all events</li>
</ul>
Without this attribute the default event list is displayed (upcoming events).
Customize your event list via the settings page or with attributes.
<h4>Settings page</h4>
The settings page is located at Settings > VS Event List.
<h4>Attributes</h4>
Settings can be overridden by adding attributes to the block, shortcode, or widget.
This can be useful when having multiple event lists on your website.
<ul>
<li>Add custom CSS class to event list: <code>class="your-class-name"</code></li>
<li>Change the number of events per page: <code>posts_per_page="5"</code></li>
<li>Display all events (without pagination): <code>posts_per_page="-1"</code></li>
<li>Skip one or multiple events: <code>offset="1"</code></li>
<li>Change date format: <code>date_format="j F Y"</code></li>
<li>Display events from a certain category: <code>event_cat="your-category-slug"</code></li>
<li>Display events from multiple categories: <code>event_cat="first-category-slug, second-category-slug"</code></li>
<li>Reverse the order of events in the upcoming, future and current events list: <code>order="DESC"</code></li>
<li>Reverse the order of events in the past and all events list: <code>order="ASC"</code></li>
<li>Change the “no events are found” text: <code>no_events_text="your text"</code></li>
<li>Disable event title link: <code>title_link="false"</code></li>
<li>Disable featured image link: <code>featured_image_link="false"</code></li>
<li>Disable featured image caption: <code>featured_image_caption="false"</code></li>
<li>Disable featured image: <code>featured_image="false"</code></li>
<li>Disable read more link: <code>read_more="false"</code></li>
<li>Disable pagination: <code>pagination="false"</code></li>
<li>Display all event info: <code>event_info="all"</code></li>
<li>Display a summary: <code>event_info="summary"</code></li>
</ul>
Example: <code>[vsel posts_per_page="5" event_cat="your-category-slug" event_info="summary"]</code>
When using the block or the widget, don’t add the main shortcode tag or the brackets.
Example: <code>posts_per_page="5" event_cat="your-category-slug" event_info="summary"</code>
<h4>Featured image</h4>
Featured images will be used as the primary image for every event.
By default the “post thumbnail” is used as the source for the featured image. The size of the post thumbnail may vary by theme.
WordPress creates duplicate images in different sizes upon upload. These sizes can be set via Settings > Media. If the post thumbnail doesn’t look as expected (low resolution or poor cropping), you can choose a different size via the settings page.
You can also change the width of the featured image.
The featured image on the single event page is handled by your theme.
<h4>Default support</h4>
The plugin creates a custom post type “event”.
This automatically supports the single event page, the event category page, the (event) post type archive page and the search results page. It hooks into the theme template file that is being used by these pages.
Support for the single event page is needed. Support for the other pages is added to make the plugin compatible with page builder plugins. Events on default WP pages are not ordered by event date.
Plugin activates the post attributes box in the editor. In the post attributes box you can set a custom order for events that have the same date. Custom order can be handy when automatic ordering by time is disabled.
Plugin supports the menu page. Support is added to make the plugin compatible with page builder plugins.
<h4>Advanced Custom Fields (ACF)</h4>
You can add extra content to the event details or the event info by using the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields" rel="ugc">Advanced Custom Fields</a> plugin. The most commonly used fields are supported.
Create a field group for the post type “event” and add fields to this group. This new field group will then be added to the editor. With these fields you can add the extra content to each event.
Via the settings page you can decide where to display the extra content.
<h4>RSS and iCal feed</h4>
You can share your upcoming events via an RSS feed.
The default RSS widget will display events from future to upcoming. To reverse this order I recommend using an RSS feed plugin capable of changing the RSS feed order.
You can share your upcoming and past events with an external calendar via an iCal feed.
You can activate both feeds on the settings page.
<h4>Have a question?</h4>
Please take a look at the FAQ section.
<h4>Translation</h4>
Translations are not included, but the plugin supports WordPress language packs.
More <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/very-simple-event-list" rel="nofollow ugc">translations</a> are very welcome!
The translation folder inside this plugin is redundant, but kept for reference.
<h4>Credits</h4>
Without help and support from the WordPress community I was not able to develop this plugin, so thank you!

VS Event List

With this lightweight plugin you can create an event list.

PlanIt Event Manager – Responsive Event Calendar & Management Plugin vs VS Event List