Smooth Calendar Reviews, Downloads & Maintenance

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!

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.

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.

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!

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!

Features

Responsive
Supports multiple events on a single day
“Quick view” of event
Ability to have single pages for each event (which makes it SEO friendly)
Customizable colors
Easily extendable
Uses custom post types and metadata, which makes creating your own theme very straightforward
Allows the display of an event title, date, start/end time, location and description
Google Calendar integration

Installation

Upload smooth-calendar to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
Place the calendar in a page using the shortcode [smooth-calendar] (optionally place it in a theme file with <?php echo do_shortcode('[smooth-calendar]'); ?>)
Update the settings by viewing the Settings page under the ‘Calendar’ tab. If you’d like each event to have its own page, check the ‘Enable single pages’ checkbox.