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Google offers some HTML snippets to embed your public Google Calendar into your website. These are great, but as soon as you want to make a few adjustments to the styling, that goes beyond changing some colors, they’re useless. Because of that I wrote a very simple widget, that fetches events from a public google calendar and nicely displays them in form of a widget, allowing you to apply all kinds of CSS. The source code should be quite easy to modify.
<h3>License</h3>
The plugin is published under the GPL v3. Previous versions (<= 0.2) did not 
mention a license; this has been fixed in the latest trunk and will be 
included in the next release version.
<h3>Contributors</h3>
<ul>
<li>pemrich (https://profiles.wordpress.org/pemrich/)</li>
</ul>

Simple Google Calendar Widget

Displays events from a public Google Calendar as a sidebar widget.

Creavi

Creavi Appointment Booking Calendar is a free WordPress appointment booking calendar with Google and Outlook availability sync, reliable customer and admin reminders, built-in video meetings, and no monthly booking fee.
Create bookable services, define your availability, collect customer details, send confirmation emails, and let customers book online in a clean calendar flow. You can offer in-person meetings, phone calls, custom meeting links, or secure video meetings generated directly by the plugin.
Build a polished booking page in minutes with drag-and-drop Gutenberg blocks. Add a ready-made Service Hero section, a Booking Profile layout, an inline booking calendar, or a popup booking button without designing everything from scratch.
Creavi is built for consultants, coaches, clinics, salons, agencies, educators, and small service businesses that want a practical booking system without monthly booking software.
Easy Setup – Ready in 2 Minutes 
Watch how it works in action:
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Check out the live demo: <a href="https://wordpress.creavi.dk/booking/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://wordpress.creavi.dk/booking/</a> 
We’re open to any suggestions! Feel free to reach out via the support forum — we’re happy to hear your ideas and may implement them in future updates.
Free Features Included
Creavi gives small service businesses a complete booking setup for free, including calendar sync, automated reminders, custom booking forms, video meeting options, and ready-made Gutenberg booking page layouts.
<ul>
<li>Add booking button anywhere via shortcode: <code>[creavibc_booking_button id="123"]</code> (opens booking popup)</li>
<li>Embed full booking interface directly on page via shortcode: <code>[creavibc_booking_inline id="123"]</code></li>
<li>
Support multiple booking widgets on the same page (different services)
</li>
<li>
Smooth booking experience:
<ul>
<li>Popup or inline layout</li>
<li>Step-by-step flow: Date → Time → Details</li>
<li>Fully responsive and mobile-friendly</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Flexible availability settings:
<ul>
<li>Admin-defined available days via date picker</li>
<li>Rolling availability range (e.g. next 30–365 days)</li>
<li>Exclude specific dates (days off, holidays)</li>
<li>Minimum time before booking (buffer)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Flexible weekday-based time slots:
<ul>
<li>Visual grid selector (e.g. Mon 9:00, Tue 10:30)</li>
<li>Different time slots per weekday</li>
<li>Optional slot duration: 20 / 30 / 60 minutes</li>
<li>Dynamic time slots based on selected date</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Smart timezone handling:
<ul>
<li>Admin timezone detection</li>
<li>Timezone modes:</li>
<li>Localized (auto-adjust to user timezone)</li>
<li>Locked (fixed business timezone)</li>
<li>Clear timezone indication on frontend</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Customizable booking form fields:
<ul>
<li>Toggle default Name & Email fields</li>
<li>Add unlimited custom fields (text or textarea)</li>
<li>Set any field as required</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Automated email notifications & reminders:
<ul>
<li>Sent to both admin and customer</li>
<li>Dynamic tags: <code>{name}</code>, <code>{email}</code>, <code>{date}</code>, <code>{time}</code>, <code>{service}</code> </li>
<li>Optional reminder emails before the appointment (reduce no-shows)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Google Calendar integration:
<ul>
<li>Automatically push bookings to Google Calendar</li>
<li>Block already booked time slots from Google Calendar</li>
<li>Google Calendar link generation for attendees</li>
<li>Custom Google event title and description templates</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Outlook Calendar integration:
<ul>
<li>Automatically push bookings to Outlook Calendar</li>
<li>Per-service Outlook connection and sync</li>
<li>Block busy Outlook time slots on the frontend</li>
<li>Custom Outlook event title and description templates</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Calendar & scheduling:
<ul>
<li>Downloadable <code>.ics</code> (iCalendar) file</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Meeting & location options:
<ul>
<li>In-person meetings</li>
<li>Online meetings (video or custom link)</li>
<li>Phone call option</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Built-in video conferencing:
<ul>
<li>Automatic meeting link generation </li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Personalization options:
<ul>
<li>Custom brand color</li>
<li>Personalized thank-you message</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Easy booking management
</li>
<li>Clean and minimal admin UI</li>
<li>
Works with Gutenberg, Elementor, and other page builders
</li>
<li>
Multilingual & Translation Ready
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Languages</h3>
This plugin is fully translation-ready and supports localization via translate.wordpress.org.
Available languages include: 
* English (default) 
* French 
* Danish
You can help translate this plugin into your language at: 
https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/creavi-booking-service/

Creavi Appointment Booking Calendar

Free WordPress appointment booking calendar with Google and Outlook sync, reliable reminders, built-in video meetings, and no monthly booking fee.

Simple Google Calendar Widget vs Creavi Appointment Booking Calendar