Category: Displaying Calendars

There are lots of different places where your timezone may not match up correctly when using Simple Calendar. This page goes over the different areas where you can set the timezone, including within Google Calendar settings, Simple Calendar plugin settings and WordPress global settings. It is recommended that all of these areas match correctly to […]

When creating a calendar, you can display the events it parses and contains in different ways. Simple Calendar comes with a default calendar to display your events. The default calendar is designed to adapt to your theme and comes with two views and settings to customize it. The two views consist of a monthly grid […]

A very flexible feature of Simple Calendar is the ability to tweak appearances of your events, to present your readers the informaiton they care most. To manipulate how your event will look like in your calendar, you can actually use the WordPress content editor to add your markup or use special tags provided by Simple […]

Simple Calendar gives you the ability to combine other calendars you’ve created into one grouped calendar. When adding a new calendar, select Grouped Calendar as the Event Source. The third tab on the left will now changed to “Grouped Calendar.” Select the “Grouped Calendar” tab, then select whether to pull calendars from a single category or manually […]

Besides adding a calendar to your site by attaching it to a post or a page, or using a widget, Simple Calendar supports WordPress shortcodes to embed a calendar inside any post or page. If you are unfamiliar with shortcodes in WordPress, please have a look at the shortcode documentation first. Just type [calendar id=”123″] inside the […]

Additionally to shortcodes and attaching calendars to content, Simple Calendar comes bundled with a widget that allows you to display a calendar in WordPress widget areas. To use this feature, your WordPress theme must support at least one widget area. If you are unsure about how widgets work, read more on WordPress widgets first. 1 To add a […]

The most prominent feature of Simple Calendar is probably the ability to bring Google Calendar events inside WordPress posts or pages to match your own site styles and colors. The calendars you will import will look more unique and a good addition to your site features that your users will appreciate. Use calendar settings The […]

In addition to add a calendar to your site via shortcode or a widget, Simple Calendar offers also a third way to attach a calendar to your content. To learn more about this method, navigate to the plugin Settings in the Calendars menu item from your admin dashboard. From the settings page select the Calendars tab. From here […]

If you use Google Calendar or Google Calendar Pro as the source of your events in Simple Calendar there is a special setting called Search Query. This is a Google-specific setting to filter events by keywords, just as you would do on a Google search query. For example, entering here the keyword outdoors would return […]