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.

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.

VentoCalendar vs My Calendar – Accessible Event Manager