About this plugin
Freelance Studio Simple Event Calendar is a fast, no-fuss event calendar for WordPress. Add events, group them into color-coded categories, set recurrence rules, and drop the calendar onto any page with a shortcode. Visitors can browse by month, filter by category, and add any event to their own calendar with a single click.
It stays out of your way: no page builders, no external services, and no account required. Everything runs on your own site and stores data in standard WordPress post types.
Features
- Interactive month calendar — a clean, full-width month grid with category legend filters.
- Sidebar widget — a separate mini calendar plus an “Upcoming events” list you can drop into any sidebar.
- Color-coded categories — assign a color to each category with a native color picker; events inherit their category color.
- Category filtering — visitors filter the calendar by category using the legend; the URL updates so filtered views are shareable.
- Recurring events — daily, weekly (with per-weekday selection), monthly, and yearly recurrence, with an optional end date.
- Multi-day events — events can span a date range and render across the calendar.
- Event details modal — featured image, date and time, location, virtual/meeting link, description, and registration link.
- Add to Calendar (.ics) — one-click download that works with Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, Outlook, and more.
- Event list shortcode — a styled list view for upcoming, past, or all events.
- Admin management — sortable event list with category, date, time, location, and registration columns, plus category and date-range filters.
Shortcodes
- [fslc_calendar] — the full month calendar. Optional attribute: category (pre-filter by category slug).
- [fslc_mini_calendar] — a compact mini calendar plus an upcoming-events list, made for sidebars. Optional attributes: category, limit (default 5), calendar and upcoming (default true; set either to false to show just one part).
- [fslc_event_list] — a styled list of events. Optional attributes: category, limit (default 10), scope ( upcoming, past, or all ), header (default false; adds a month title with previous/next navigation), and filters (default false; adds the category legend).
From the makers of Freelance Studio
Freelance Studio Simple Event Calendar is a free plugin from Freelance Studio, a self-hosted WordPress toolkit for creative freelancers covering clients, projects, invoicing, time tracking, proposals, and contracts.