External Events Calendar WordPress Plugin
This plugin adds a basic "upcoming events" calendar of links to WordPress.
This plugin is useful for listing speaking engagements, upcoming social events, or other calendar listings which link outside of your site. It adds a special link category for "Events Calendar" with meta fields for location and date. Any links in this category can be displayed through a widget withoption to display all events or only future events, show in ascending/descending order, and options to show or hide link images and descriptions.
The Start Date and End Date fields are stored as text fields and can be entered as any standard php-readable date format (i.e. "Aug 1, 2010 5:00pm", "10/4/11", and "November 2012" are all acceptable, and will be ordered properly and displayed just as they are entered). The End Date field is optional; if included, it will display the dates as a range; if not, only the first date will be displayed.
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Usage of External Events Calendar over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 54 to 29 — down 25 (-46.3%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 29 | -4 |
| June 2024 | 33 | -2 |
| May 2024 | 35 | +0 |
| April 2024 | 35 | -2 |
| March 2024 | 37 | -8 |
| February 2024 | 45 | +0 |
| January 2024 | 45 | -4 |
| December 2023 | 49 | -4 |
| November 2023 | 53 | +0 |
| October 2023 | 53 | -1 |
| September 2023 | 54 | +0 |
| August 2023 | 54 | +0 |
| July 2023 | 54 | +0 |
| June 2023 | 54 | — |
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