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

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.

Smooth Calendar vs My Calendar – Accessible Event Manager