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<h3>Quick Event Calendar – Simple, fancy event calendar.</h3>
<p><strong>Quick Event Calendar</strong> is a very simple, performant, and WordPress-integrated event calendar plugin. Quick Event Calendar allows you to add <strong>posts</strong>, <strong>events</strong> or any other <strong>custom post type</strong> to a flexible, responsive calendar which can be placed in a post, page or widget.</p>
<p>The calendar works on one page only using AJAX loading. All events (or posts) in one month are displayed under the calendar.</p>
<p>It is simple, and fast, with no bloated styles and visual scripts. Use the included themes to style your calendar. Use the default or the minimal theme to match your current WordPress theme appearance.</p>
<p>The calendar is feature-packed: works with custom posts, only needs one page, includes predefined themes and is responsive.</p>
<p>Add your own event using the <code>[qcc-form]</code> shortcode and display all events using the <code>[qcc-calendar]</code> shortcode.</p>
<h3>Quick Event Calendar plugin can be used by:</h3>
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<p>**Website Owners / Administrators: Anyone who runs a WordPress website can use this plugin to display events or custom post types in a calendar format on their site.</p>
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<p><strong>Event Organizers</strong>: Individuals or organizations that host events can utilize this plugin to create an event calendar on their WordPress website, allowing visitors to easily view and potentially submit events.</p>
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<p><strong>Bloggers / Content Creators</strong>: If you have a blog or website where you regularly publish content organized by date (e.g., posts, articles, news), you can use Quick Event Calendar to display this content in a calendar format.</p>
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<p><strong>Business Owners</strong>: Small businesses, especially those in industries like hospitality, retail, or services, can use this plugin to showcase their events, promotions, or special offers in a visually appealing calendar layout.</p>
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<p><strong>Community Organizations</strong>: Non-profit organizations, clubs, schools, or local communities can benefit from Quick Event Calendar to publicize their upcoming events, meetings, or activities on their WordPress website.</p>
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<p><strong>Personal Websites / Blogs</strong>: Individuals running personal websites or blogs can use this plugin to display their schedule, milestones, or any date-based content in a calendar format.</p>
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<h3>Key Features</h3>
<p>See the features which are exclusive to the Quick Event Calendar plugin and understand why Quick Event Calendar is possibly the <strong>Best Event Calendar Plugin for WordPress</strong>.</p>
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<p><strong>Simple and Performant</strong>: Quick Event Calendar is designed to be fast and lightweight, with no bloated styles or visual scripts, ensuring optimal performance.</p>
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<p><strong>AJAX Loading</strong>: The calendar works on a single page, utilizing AJAX to load events for a specific month, providing a smooth and efficient user experience.</p>
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<p><strong>Custom Post Type Integration</strong>: Display events from any custom post type, giving you the flexibility to organize and showcase your content as desired.</p>
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<p><strong>Responsive Design</strong>: The calendar is fully responsive, ensuring a seamless experience across different devices and screen sizes.</p>
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<p><strong>Predefined Themes</strong>: Quick Event Calendar includes predefined themes, allowing you to easily style your calendar to match your WordPress theme’s appearance.</p>
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<p><strong>Customizable Colors</strong>: Tailor the calendar’s appearance by selecting accent colors, event colors, and background colors to match your site’s branding.</p>
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<h3>How to Use Quick Event Calendar</h3>
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<p><strong>Install and Activate</strong>: Install and activate the Quick Event Calendar plugin from the WordPress plugin repository.</p>
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<p><strong>Configure Settings</strong>: Navigate to the plugin settings and configure the desired options, such as selecting the post type, category (if applicable), and choosing which posts to display <strong>(published, scheduled, or future)</strong>.</p>
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<p><strong>Add Events</strong>: Use the <code>[qcc-form]</code> shortcode to display the calendar submission form on any post, page, or widget, allowing users to add new events.</p>
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<p><strong>Display the Calendar</strong>: Use the <code>[qcc-calendar]</code> shortcode on any post, page, or widget to display the calendar with the selected events.</p>
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<p><strong>Customize Appearance</strong>: Select one of the predefined themes and match the calendar’s colors with your site’s branding by adjusting the accent color, event color, and background color for the current day.</p>
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<h3>Help with shortcodes</h3>
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<p>Use the <code>[qcc-calendar]</code> shortcode in any post, page or widget to show the calendar.</p>
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<p>Use the <code>[qcc-form]</code> shortcode in any post, page or widget to show the calendar submission form.</p>
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<h3>Help with template tags</h3>
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<p>Use the <code><?php echo do_shortcode("[qcc-calendar]"); ?></code> code in any page template to show the <strong>calendar</strong>.</p>
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<p>Use the <code><?php echo do_shortcode("[qcc-form]"); ?></code> code in any page template to show the <strong>calendar submission form</strong>.</p>
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<h3>Help with styling</h3>
<p>Use the included themes to style your calendar. Use the default or the minimal theme to match your current WordPress theme appearance.</p>
<p><strong>After installing the plugin, you need to configure it by selecting several options:</strong></p>
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<p>Select the desired post type, the desired category (if post type is ‘post’) and which posts you want to show. For an event calendar, the default should be both published and scheduled/future posts.</p>
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<p>In case you want to use custom meta fields, the calendar works with preexisting meta fields. Using custom meta fields requires a third-party plugin to add new fields.</p>
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<p>After selecting the desired options, pick one of the predefined themes to match your site.</p>
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<p>After selecting a theme, you need to match your site’s colours with the calendar template.</p>
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<p>In your <strong>Configurator</strong> tab, select the accent colour, the event colour and the background colour for the current day.</p>
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<p>When you are done with the settings, use the <code>[qcc-calendar]</code> shortcode in any post, page or widget to show the calendar.</p>


Quick Event Calendar

Quick Event Calendar is a very simple, performant, and WordPress-integrated event calendar plugin.

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<p>As of August 2019, Google <a href="https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/9366791?hl=en&ref_topic=1745146" rel="nofollow ugc">no longer allows new Experiments</a> using the Experiments API.</p>
<p>So this project will not get updated.</p>
<p>Please use <a href="https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/optimize/" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Optimize</a>.</p>
<p>As part of Analytics, Google offers a free content testing service called <a href="https://support.google.com/analytics/topic/1745146?hl=en&ref_topic=1120718" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Experiments</a>.</p>
<p>NOTE: Google is deprecating Analytics Content Experiments.</p>
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<p>Google Optimize is the free, preferred way to run experiments. Analytics Content Experiments remain available but are being deprecated in the future.</p>
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<p>We are currently supporting this plugin, but will discontinue support as the Content Experiments API becomes deprecated.</p>
<p>In the simple (page) form of Google Experiments, the user is redirected to a separate page which contains the variation. There are a <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=google+experiments">number of plugins</a> that can help you implement this scheme.</p>
<p>The <strong>Simple Content Experiments</strong> plugin implements the “Client-side” model described in <a href="https://developers.google.com/analytics/solutions/experiments-client-side" rel="nofollow ugc">Content Experiments Without Redirects (Browser-only implementation)</a><br />
This scheme is more complicated to set up, but allows more flexibility.<br />
The Simple Content Experiments plugin allows you to define sections within a single page that contain multiple variations with simple shortcodes..<br />
For example, you can test if one call-to-action image gets more clicks than another.</p>
<p>To use this plugin, you will need:</p>
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<li>Google Universal Analytics installed on your site</li>
<li><a href="https://developers.google.com/analytics/solutions/experiments-client-side#define" rel="nofollow ugc">A Content Experiment</a></li>
<li>Your experiment ID (Will be displayed when setting up the experiment above.)</li>
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<p>Sample content experiment:</p>
<pre><code>    [experiment id="EXPERIMENT ID"]
      [ex_variant]
         content for first variation
      [/ex_variant]
      [ex_variant]
         content for second variation
      [/ex_variant]
   [/experiment]
</code></pre>
<h3>Features:</h3>
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<li>Allows in-page variations. You don’t need to create a whole page for each variation</li>
<li>Simple shortcode syntax</li>
<li>Uses Google Experiments API to determine which user sees which variation</li>
<li>Adds class (“xvariantclick”) and custom data attribute (“data-xvariant”) which can be used for Analytics event goals and tracking</li>
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<h3>Goals and Tracking:</h3>
<p>Anchors within an experiment variation get an additional class: “xvariantclick”<br />
This class can be used with Google Tag Manager to create a rule that responds to clicks on those elements.</p>
<p>Note: If you are using Google Tag Manager, you need to create a trigger and tag to have the Experiment run properly.<br />
See the section called “Google Tag Manager” for information on how to set this up.</p>
<h3>Google Analytics Experiments:</h3>
<p>To track clicked items within an experiment, use these new events in your goal definitions.<br />
You can look for an event where Category = “experiment” or whatever you named your category above.</p>
<h3>Debugging</h3>
<p>You can enable JavaScript console log debugging messages by adding the following to your wp-config.php file:</p>
<pre><code>/** Enable console log debugging messages for the Simple Content Experiments plugin: */
define('WPSCE_DEBUG', true);
</code></pre>
<h3>Google Tag Manager</h3>
<p>As simple as “Simple Content Experiments” is, <a href="https://www.google.com/analytics/optimize/" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Optimize</a> is even simpler. And the recommended solution if you’re running GTM.</p>
<p>But if you still want to use the old Content Experiments, you can. (For now.)<br />
When running Google Tag Manager, sometimes the Experiments API will run before Analytics is loaded and ready.</p>
<p>Don’t worry if that is just programmer-speak, you just need to add a new Tag and Trigger.<br />
Obviously, none of this applies if you’re not running Tag Manager.</p>
<h3>Trigger</h3>
<h4>Name:</h4>
<p>I called mine “AnalyticsLoaded” but you can name it whatever you want.</p>
<h4>Choose Event:</h4>
<p>“Page View”</p>
<h4>Configure Trigger:</h4>
<p>“Window Loaded”</p>
<h4>Fire On:</h4>
<p>“All Page Views”</p>
<h3>Tag</h3>
<h4>Name:</h4>
<p>Whatever you want. I called mine “SimpleExperimentPlugin”</p>
<h4>Choose Product:</h4>
<p>“Custom HTML” tag</p>
<h4>Configure Tag:</h4>
<pre><code><script>
  if("function" == typeof(content_experiment.run_experiment)){
    content_experiment.run_experiment();
  }
</script>
</code></pre>
<h4>Fire On:</h4>
<p>“AnalyticsLoaded” or whatever you named the trigger above.</p>
<h3>Requirements</h3>
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<li>Google Analytics (Universal Analytics)</li>
<li>This version of the plugin requires jQuery 1.6 or higher.</li>
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<p>While jQuery is probably already available in your theme, in the unlikely event that it isn’t, you can use a plugin like <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-jquery-plus/">WP jQuery Plus</a> to add it to your site.</p>


Simple Content Experiments

Use Google Experiments to test content variations within a single page using simple shortcodes.

Quick Event Calendar vs Simple Content Experiments