Simple Events Calendar WordPress Plugin
Simple and lightweight events calendar to show events on posts/pages, manage them centrally, hCalendar compliant and stays up to date.
What does the plugin do?
The Simple Events Calendar is a WordPress plugin developed to allow WordPress site owners to easily add upcoming events to their posts or pages. Every event is published and microformated with the hCalendar standard, thus fully semantic.
Simple Events Calendar adds a new option to the admin Dashboard where users can add new events or delete existing ones. Events can contain URLs to get more info and a separate link for the location. The latter could for example be used at add the link to a Google Map.
Events can be published with a Twitter link to allow your visitors to easily tweet about your event.
Adding events to your page or post
You can easily place your events in any post or page by adding the following text (shortcode): [events]
Using labels to add specific events
In some ca
calendar
event
events
Organizer
planner
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Usage of Simple Events Calendar over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 86 to 43 — down 43 (-50%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 43 | -12 |
| June 2024 | 55 | +0 |
| May 2024 | 55 | +0 |
| April 2024 | 55 | +2 |
| March 2024 | 53 | -6 |
| February 2024 | 59 | -3 |
| January 2024 | 62 | -3 |
| December 2023 | 65 | -5 |
| November 2023 | 70 | +0 |
| October 2023 | 70 | -5 |
| September 2023 | 75 | -8 |
| August 2023 | 83 | -1 |
| July 2023 | 84 | -2 |
| June 2023 | 86 | — |
Themes used with Simple Events Calendar
Detected most often on sites that run this plugin.
| # | Theme |
|---|---|
| 1 | Genesis |
| 2 | Akima |
| 3 | Customizr |
| 4 | Enfold |
| 5 | Edition |
| 6 | Organic_portfolio |
| 7 | Skhtheme2 |
| 8 | Dailypress |
| 9 | Weaver-ii |
| 10 | Shoemaking-canvas |
| 11 | Canvas |
| 12 | Exmachina |
| 13 | Modernize-v3-16 |
| 14 | Gemgids |
| 15 | Theme1703 |
| 16 | Hsm |
| 17 | Blank-theme |
| 18 | Cvenera |
| 19 | Theme961 |
| 20 | Studeo |
Sites running Simple Events Calendar
All sites in the collection43 examples from the collection. Open any site to see the theme and plugins we found on it.
