Alberto Gato Otero

<p>VentoCalendar is a powerful yet simple WordPress plugin for creating and managing events. It provides an intuitive interface for adding events with start and end dates, customizable colors, and an interactive calendar view.</p>
<p><strong>Free and privacy-friendly plugin:</strong> No ads, no tracking, no external services required. All your event data stays on your server. Developed with WordPress coding standards and best practices in mind.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Custom Event Post Type</strong> – Dedicated post type for events with all WordPress features</li>
<li><strong>Date & Time Management</strong> – Easy-to-use datetime picker for start and end dates</li>
<li><strong>Color Coding</strong> – Assign custom colors to events for better visual organization</li>
<li><strong>Interactive Calendar</strong> – Beautiful calendar with selectable view type (monthly calendar or event list), with “Add to my calendar” buttons for Google Calendar and Apple Calendar.</li>
<li><strong>Layout Options</strong> – Choose between basic, compact, or clean layouts to customize the calendar appearance</li>
<li><strong>Gutenberg Blocks</strong> – Two custom blocks for displaying calendars and event information</li>
<li><strong>Shortcodes</strong> – Flexible shortcodes for displaying calendars and event information anywhere</li>
<li><strong>REST API</strong> – Built-in REST API endpoints for custom integrations</li>
<li><strong>Responsive Design</strong> – Fully responsive calendar that works on all devices</li>
<li><strong>Internationalization Ready</strong> – Fully translatable with .pot file included</li>
</ul>
<h4>Gutenberg Blocks</h4>
<ol>
<li><strong>Calendar Block</strong> – Show a monthly calendar view with all your events</li>
<li><strong>Event Info Block</strong> – Display event date and time information using your WordPress date/time formats</li>
</ol>
<h4>Shortcodes</h4>
<ul>
<li><code>[ventocalendar-calendar]</code> – Display full calendar view</li>
<li><code>[ventocalendar-start-date]</code> – Display event start date</li>
<li><code>[ventocalendar-end-date]</code> – Display event end date</li>
<li><code>[ventocalendar-start-time]</code> – Display event start time</li>
<li><code>[ventocalendar-end-time]</code> – Display event end time</li>
</ul>
<p>All shortcodes use the date and time formats configured in Settings <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> General.</p>
<h4>Perfect For</h4>
<ul>
<li>Community organizations</li>
<li>Event venues</li>
<li>Churches and religious organizations</li>
<li>Schools and universities</li>
<li>Business event calendars</li>
<li>Conference websites</li>
<li>Workshop and class schedules</li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy & Compliance</h3>
<p>VentoCalendar is designed with privacy and WordPress.org guidelines in mind:</p>
<h4>License</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>GPLv2 or later</strong> – This plugin is free software licensed under the GNU General Public License v2 or later</li>
<li>Designed to comply with WordPress.org guidelines</li>
<li>All code is open source and available for review</li>
</ul>
<h4>No Obfuscated Code</h4>
<ul>
<li>All JavaScript, PHP, and CSS code is readable and unminified</li>
<li>No build process or compilation required</li>
<li>All source code is human-readable and editable</li>
<li>No hidden functionality or encrypted code</li>
</ul>
<h4>No External Services Required</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Self-hosted solution</strong> – All functionality runs on your WordPress server</li>
<li>No mandatory third-party services or API keys required</li>
<li>Vue.js library is bundled with the plugin and loaded locally (no CDN).</li>
<li>No external accounts, subscriptions, or paid services needed</li>
</ul>
<h4>No Advertising</h4>
<ul>
<li>The plugin does not display advertisements in the WordPress admin area or on the frontend.</li>
<li>No affiliate links or sponsored content are included.</li>
<li>All features are available without promotional notices or upsells.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Privacy Friendly</h4>
<ul>
<li>The plugin does not collect, track, or transmit user data to external services</li>
<li>No analytics, tracking scripts, or cookies are added by the plugin</li>
<li>Event data is stored locally in the WordPress database and remains under the site owner’s control</li>
<li>The plugin operates entirely within the WordPress environment without external communication</li>
</ul>
<h4>What Data is Stored</h4>
<ul>
<li>Event information (titles, descriptions, dates, colors) – stored in WordPress database</li>
<li>All data remains on your server under your control</li>
<li>No external communication or data sharing</li>
</ul>
<h3>Developer Notes</h3>
<h4>Architecture</h4>
<p>The plugin follows WordPress Plugin Boilerplate architecture with a centralized loader system. All hooks are registered through the main plugin class.</p>
<h4>REST API</h4>
<p><strong>Endpoint:</strong> <code>GET /wp-json/ventocalendar/v1/events</code></p>
<p><strong>Parameters:</strong><br />
* <code>start</code> (optional) – Start date filter (Y-m-d format)<br />
* <code>end</code> (optional) – End date filter (Y-m-d format)</p>
<p><strong>Response:</strong> Array of event objects with id, title, dates, times, color, and permalink.</p>
<h4>File Structure</h4>
<ul>
<li><code>admin/</code> – Admin-specific functionality (PHP, JS, CSS)</li>
<li><code>public/</code> – Public-facing functionality (PHP, JS, CSS)</li>
<li><code>includes/</code> – Core plugin classes</li>
<li><code>includes/blocks/</code> – Gutenberg block classes</li>
<li><code>includes/cpt/</code> – Custom post type definitions</li>
<li><code>languages/</code> – Translation files</li>
</ul>
<h4>Development</h4>
<p>No build process required. All files are unminified and ready for direct editing. The plugin uses standard WordPress enqueue functions for all assets.</p>
<h3>Donations</h3>
<p>This plugin is free. Donations are voluntary support for its development.</p>
<p>If you find VentoCalendar useful, you can support its development here: <a href="https://ko-fi.com/albertogato" rel="nofollow ugc">Donate via Ko-fi</a></p>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>For support, feature requests, or bug reports, please visit the plugin’s support forum on WordPress.org.</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<ul>
<li>Built using <a href="https://github.com/DevinVinson/WordPress-Plugin-Boilerplate" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Plugin Boilerplate</a></li>
<li>Calendar powered by <a href="https://vuejs.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Vue.js</a></li>
</ul>


VentoCalendar

A lightweight and intuitive events calendar plugin for WordPress.

omnivo

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</blockquote>
<p>Omnivo is here to provide a range of tools within the calendar plugin. Weather you are looking for calendar for your events or booking calendar, Omnivo is the best plugin for both cases.</p>
<p>After installing the plugin on your WordPress website, you should be able to create and publish your first event in just a few minutes.</p>
<p>What you get is a fully customizable booking calendar for displaying your company’s events and tickets.</p>
<p><strong>You are able to:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Create events from dashboard</li>
<li>Create Event Categories</li>
<li>Customize booking calendar colors</li>
<li>Import events from Google Calendar</li>
<li>Export Booking Calendar</li>
<li>Send booking calendar confirmation to your clients </li>
</ul>
<p>To start using booking calendar plugin you need to upload and activate the plugin in your WordPress repository. The plugin will appear on your dashboard with several sections.</p>
<p>For starters, go to the events section and create event categories for booking calendar.This section allows to categorize your events and provide your visitors a better experience. Also build columns for the calendar to feature the events in the selected columns of your booking calendar.</p>
<p>Next create event pages and add new events to booking calendar. You can add them manually from events section or import (Google Calendar) from Calendar section. For the latter you will need to add your Google calendar ID to your Booking Calendar.</p>
<p>To display all the events you will need to go to the calendar section, here you can all the important configurations of your booking calendar:</p>
<ul>
<li>Shortcode Generator,</li>
<li>Event Post Type,</li>
<li>Email Configurations,</li>
<li>Google Calendar options,</li>
</ul>
<p>After creating categories, columns and events  go to booking calendar’s shortcode section to combine all these events in one calendar. Here you are able to work on  main configurations, change colors, set booking options and add custom CSS.</p>
<p><strong>Booking Calendar Shortcode Main Configurations:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Choose between the Booking Calendar events to display by holding the Ctrl/Command button</li>
<li>Choose the event category and hour categories</li>
<li>Select hour measure for event hours</li>
<li>Choose a filter style</li>
</ul>
<ol>
<li>Dropdown List</li>
<li>Tabs</li>
</ol>
<ul>
<li>Choose a filter kind and filter booking calendar’s events by:</li>
</ul>
<ol>
<li>Event</li>
<li>Event Category</li>
<li>By Event and Event Category</li>
</ol>
<ul>
<li>Create Filter Label</li>
<li>Choose between 5 Event block layout types for your booking calendar</li>
<li>Choose between tyme formats or create a custom time format</li>
<li>Align the booking calendar’s text</li>
<li>Give your booking calendar an ID</li>
<li>Specify timetable row height in pixels.</li>
<li>Make your booking calendar responsive with a simple click</li>
<li>Specify if you want do display description in mobile mode </li>
<li>Change generate PDF label if needed</li>
<li>Choose between PDF fonts</li>
</ul>
<ol>
<li>Lato</li>
<li>Dejavu Sans</li>
</ol>
<p>And many other options to hide or display some field in your booking calendar.</p>
<p><strong>Change colors for a better view of booking calendar plugin. You are able to change colors of:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Calendar box background and hover background</li>
<li>Calendar box text and hover text</li>
<li>Calendar box hours text and hover text</li>
<li>Filter control background </li>
<li>Booking calendar row 1 and row 2 style background</li>
<li>PDF button text and button background </li>
<li>PDF button hover text and hover background </li>
<li>Booking button text and background</li>
<li>Booking button hover text and background</li>
<li>Booked button text and background </li>
<li>Unavailable button text and background</li>
<li>Booking clandar’s available Slots</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Select Fonts for your booking calendar:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Just write Font name in the empty field for booking calendar font</li>
<li>Choose the Font size in pixels</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Go to booking section to make changes on booking options.</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Specify if the ‘Book now’ button should be displayed.</li>
<li>Specify if the ‘available slots’ information should be displayed.</li>
<li>Specify text label for ‘slot available’ information singular and plural </li>
<li>Choose a default booking view for the Booking Calendar</li>
</ul>
<ol>
<li>User</li>
<li>Guest</li>
</ol>
<ul>
<li>Allow/disallow guest booking option</li>
<li>Generate booking calendar’s booking and booked labels</li>
<li>Select a label for unavailable bookings</li>
<li>Select Popup booking label of the booking calendar</li>
<li>Choose popup login, continue and cancel labels</li>
<li>Allow/disallow showing the terms and conditions checkbox</li>
<li>Write a message for terms and conditions checkbox</li>
<li>Write a booking popup message for the booking calendar </li>
<li>Customize the popup message with HTML coding</li>
<li>Write a booking popup thank you message for the booking calendar in HTML</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Go to Booking calendar Email configurations and specify:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>The admin name</li>
<li>The admin email</li>
<li>The email subject</li>
<li>The message with HTML</li>
</ul>
<p>Also you may enable or disable debug options and customize Admin SMTP settings if needed.</p>
<p>When you have an event bookings go to Calendar bookings section to view or export the bookings.</p>
<p>Besides this valuable functionalities that you get with the plugin, you will also get best plugin support and the most requested updates.</p>


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