Trevan Hetzel

<p>Smooth Calendar is a straightfowrward solution to displaying events on a WordPress site. First and foremost, the calendar view allows users of your site to quickly see events for a given month. Multiple events can be displayed on a single day and there is an option to display a single page for each event, perfect for linking people to an event page from social media!</p>
<p>The plugin uses JavaScript to fetch data, which provides for a fast and easy to use experience for users. The experience in the Dashboard is also very user friendly, as each event is a custom post type with easy to understand fields.</p>
<p>While the plugin can certainly be installed and used right out of the box, there is much room for flexibility and extending the plugin. From styling it to fit your site’s theme to adding even more functionality, this plugin was written in an extendable way to fit you as a site owner’s or developer’s needs.</p>
<p>A lot of time has been spent to make this calendar plugin as user friendly on as many devices as possible. It’s fully responsive and works on every modern device it’s viewed on. Phone, tablet, laptop or desktop, the user experience is just the same!</p>
<p>There is an abundance of WordPress calendar plugins, but if you’re looking for a responsive, easy to get going (and easy for clients to manage) calendar plugin, Smooth calendar is your best bet!</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Responsive</li>
<li>Supports multiple events on a single day</li>
<li>“Quick view” of event</li>
<li>Ability to have single pages for each event (which makes it SEO friendly)</li>
<li>Customizable colors</li>
<li>Easily extendable</li>
<li>Uses custom post types and metadata, which makes creating your own theme very straightforward</li>
<li>Allows the display of an event title, date, start/end time, location and description</li>
<li>Google Calendar integration</li>
</ul>


Smooth Calendar

Phil Derksen

Fulvio Notarstefano

Nick Young

SureSwift Capital

SimpleCalendar

Rohit Singhal

Ross Hanney

<p><a href="https://simplecalendar.io/?utm_source=wordpress.org&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=simple-cal-readme&utm_content=description" rel="nofollow ugc">Simple Calendar</a> is the easiest way to add Google Calendar events to your WordPress site. Quick to setup. Fine tune to your needs. Mobile responsive. Beautifully designed.</p>
<h4>Simple Calendar Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Display events from any public Google Calendar.</li>
<li>Keep managing events in Google Calendar. No need to create events in WordPress.</li>
<li>Out-of-the-box designs that match your theme’s look and feel.</li>
<li>Fully responsive and mobile-friendly monthly grid and list views.</li>
<li>Customize event content display using simple tags. No coding required.</li>
<li>Combine multiple calendars into single displays explicitly or using categories.</li>
<li>Intuitive, simple display configuration changes for fine tuning.</li>
<li>Advanced settings to adjust time zones, date/time formats and start of the week.</li>
<li>Integration with <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/event-calendar-newsletter/" rel="ugc">Event Calendar Newsletter</a> for quickly turning your events into a newsletter-friendly format.</li>
<li>Additional functionality offered with <a href="https://simplecalendar.io/addons/?utm_source=wordpress.org&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=simple-cal-readme&utm_content=description" rel="nofollow ugc">add-ons</a>.</li>
<li>Translations available with more being added on a regular basis. <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/google-calendar-events" rel="nofollow ugc">Translations welcome!</a></li>
<li>Open source with code hosted on GitHub. <a href="https://github.com/Xtendify/Simple-Calendar" rel="nofollow ugc">Contributions welcome!</a></li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p><strong><a href="https://simplecalendar.io/addons/?utm_source=wordpress.org&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=simple-cal-readme&utm_content=description" rel="nofollow ugc">Love using Simple Calendar? Consider purchasing a Premium Add-on</a></strong></p>
</blockquote>
<h4>FullCalendar Add-on Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Week and day views</strong> added alongside the month view.</li>
<li>Display event titles and start times directly on your calendar.</li>
<li>Faster load times when navigating through months, weeks or days.</li>
<li>Configure header navigation buttons to allow site visitors to easily switch between views.</li>
<li>Intuitive design for multi-day events.</li>
<li>Customizable calendar heights with optional scroll bars.</li>
<li>Set default start time for week and day views.</li>
<li>Limit display times for week and day views.</li>
<li>Works with our Google Calendar Pro add-on to display <strong>color-coded events</strong> within each view.</li>
<li>Priority email support with a 24-hour response time during weekdays backed by a top-notch team.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Google Calendar Pro Add-on Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Display events from both <strong>private and public</strong> Google Calendars.</li>
<li><strong>Highlight events with colors</strong> that match assigned Google Calendar event colors.</li>
<li>Display attendee names, avatars and RSVP status for any private or public event.</li>
<li>Display event organizer information.</li>
<li>Display a list of attachments with links to their original source.</li>
<li>Secure connection established between your site and Google using the OAuth standard.</li>
<li>Works with our FullCalendar add-on to display beautiful month, week and day views with color-coded events.</li>
<li>Priority email support with a 24-hour response time during weekdays backed by a top-notch team.</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p><strong><a href="https://simplecalendar.io/addons/?utm_source=wordpress.org&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=simple-cal-readme&utm_content=description" rel="nofollow ugc">Get ALL these features with our Premium Add-ons</a></strong></p>
</blockquote>
<p>Want to take Simple Calendar for a spin first? <strong><a href="http://demo.simplecalendar.io/?utm_source=wordpress.org&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=simple-cal-readme&utm_content=description" rel="nofollow ugc">Try out a Live Demo</a></strong></p>


Simple Calendar – Google Calendar Plugin


I use the plugin for several client websites and it works very well. Even with the free version you can go in any direction. The plugin is flexible and the connection with Google is quickly done thanks to the clear manual.


Powerful and easy to use


I purchased the Simple Calendar – Google Calendar Pro Add-on to easily connect my calendar and display the original event colors. However, every week the integration resets and the calendar stops displaying properly. I have no way to fix it, and it keeps happening. Very frustrating.


Simple Calendar – Google Calendar Pro Add-on

Add Google Calendar events to your WordPress site in minutes. Beautiful calendar displays. Mobile responsive.

Smooth Calendar vs Simple Calendar – Google Calendar Plugin