Description

My Calendar does WordPress event management with richly customizable ways to display events. The plugin supports individual event calendars within WordPress Multisite, multiple calendars displayed by categories, locations or author, or simple lists of upcoming events.

Easy to use for anybody, My Calendar provides enormous flexibility for designers and developers needing a custom calendar. My Calendar is built with accessibility in mind, so all your users can get equal access and experience in your calendar.

Premium Event Management

Looking for more? Buy My Calendar Pro, the premium extension for My Calendar to add support for user-submitted events, integration between posting and event creation, and import events from outside sources.

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Features:

Calendar grid or list views of events
Monthly, weekly, or daily view.
Mini-calendar for compact displays (as widget or shortcode)
Widgets: today’s events, upcoming events, mini calendar, event search
Customize templates for event output
Limit views by categories, location, author, or host
Editable CSS styles.
Extensive support for recurring events.
Edit or add single dates in recurring events
Rich permissions handling to restrict access to parts of My Calendar
Email notifications when events are scheduled or drafted
Post to Twitter when events are created (using WP to Twitter)
Manage locations
Fetch events from a remote database. (Sharing events in a network of sites.)
Multisite-friendly
Integrated help page
Shortcode Generator to create customized views of My Calendar

Accessibility

My Calendar is designed with accessibility in mind. All interfaces – both front and back end – are tested with various assistive technology. The plugin includes features for indicating the accessibility services available for events and at physical venues, as well as providing access to the content for users with disabilities.

What’s in My Calendar Pro?

Let your site visitors submit events to your site (pay to post or free!).
Let logged-in users edit their events from the front-end.
Create events when you publish a blog post
Publish a blog post when you create an event
Advanced search features
Responsive mode
Import events from .ics or .csv formats via file or URL.
REST API support for sharing events between multiple sites.

Translations

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Screenshots

Monthly Grid View
List View
Event management page
Category management page
Settings page
Location management
Style editing
Template editing

Installation

Upload the /my-calendar/ directory into your WordPress plugins directory.
Activate the plugin on your WordPress plugins page
Configure My Calendar using the settings pages in the admin panel:

My Calendar -> Add Event
My Calendar -> Events
My Calendar -> Add New Location
My Calendar -> Locations
My Calendar -> Categories
My Calendar -> Design
My Calendar -> Settings
My Calendar -> Shortcodes
My Calendar -> Help
Visit My Calendar -> Help for assistance with shortcode options or widget configuration.

FAQ

Hey! Why don’t you have any Frequently Asked Questions here!: Because the majority of users end up on my web site asking for help anyway — and it’s simply more work to maintain two copies. Please visit my web site FAQ to read my Frequently Asked Questions!
This plugin is complicated. Why won’t you help me figure out how to use it?: I will! But not in person. Take a look at my documentation website for My Calendar or the developer hook documentation before making your request, and consider making a donation or buying My Calendar Pro!
Can my visitors or members submit events?: I’ve written a premium plugin that adds this feature: My Calendar Pro. Buy it today!
Is there an advanced search feature?: The search feature in My Calendar is pretty basic; but buying My Calendar Pro gives you a richer search feature, where you can narrow by dates, categories, authors, and more to refine your event search.

Reviews

Gardner25 November 14, 2022 1 reply

Wish I had not waisted my time adding events to only have the first ones be deleted with every new addition.

ivarb October 23, 2022 1 reply

It doesn't save the typed page-name for the calendar. I'm not the first, check the support-link with the same name. An option could have been the short-code [my-calendar]. But to make the events clickable in calendar-view, you need to have saved a calendar-page. And this is not possible, as this is the initial problem.

rivermobster October 18, 2022 1 reply

I have been using this plugin for maybe ten years? Joe is always available to answer my questions. Very customizable calendar program, and the Ticketing works flawlessly. Thanks Joe!

youknowmenot August 22, 2022 1 reply

After trying a bunch of the most popular plugins, I found out that they were tailored towards event organizers, while I needed an actual calendar for personal needs. And with a little customization this plugin turned out to be perfect. It has the best recurring system one could wish for plus great support. My Calendar, take My 5 Stars. 🙂

pam0916 August 13, 2022

Wow. Just wow. This calendar is so flexible. You need to have a working knowledge of shortcodes and some css, but otherwise it is pretty intuitive. The documentation is very good. (The author/developer himself suggests strongly that you read it!) More importantly, my clients just love it!

Technology-Therapist June 22, 2022

I first used the free version and it offered many options but because of the nature of the calendar, we needed some special requests and decided to buy the pro version for the support. IT WAS WORTH EVERY PENNY & MORE . The creator is quick, reliable, and one of the kindest people I've had to deal with when using the customer support. I would use any plugin that he creates with confidence.

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Contributors & Developers

“My Calendar” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Joe Dolson

“My Calendar” has been translated into 17 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

Translate “My Calendar” into your language.

Interested in development?

Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.

Changelog

3.4.3

Bug fix: Overly general no-scroll selector on modal behaviors caused. Added prefix & specificity.
Bug fix: Wrong variable called for custom navigation items.
Bug fix: Verify that callable functions exist before calling them.
Bug fix: CSS Migration moved files into the wrong directory: move to correct directory.
Bug fix: Perform integrity checks on imported settings files.
Feature: Locate CSS migrated into wrong directory and offer to move them.

3.4.2

Bug fix: Revert fix that supported custom title formats in Full Site Editor, as it caused problems in some classic themes.
Bug fix: default_settings should only ever call add_option, not update_option. Resolves bug that could reset user’s settings if they had previously uninstalled.
Bug fix: Accidentally used sanitize_textarea_field on event content instead of wp_kses_post, which stripped HTML.

3.4.1

Bug fix: Fatal error in installation routine on multisite.
Bug fix: Broken popups in AJAX navigation on compact calendar.
Bug fix: Error in child descendant if multi-language events called.
Bug fix: Mis-called setting for default location.

3.4.0

Feature: import and export calendar settings.
Feature: Migrate CSS to custom file locations.
Feature: Add modal option for all popup views.
Feature: Copy to clipboard for help & shortcodes.
Feature: REST API support for outputting events.
Feature: New default stylesheet.
Feature: Support ‘current’ as an argument in a comma-separated list of users.
Bug fix: User category limits need to be configurable for all users who can add events.
Bug fix: User category limits should limit the categories selectable by users, not just those editable.
Bug fix: Default events screen says ‘All’ but only showed ‘Published’
Bug fix: Quick publish of a draft should keep user in draft events list.
Bug fix: Don’t repeat geolocation queries if a location does not have valid data.
Bug fix: Should only require ‘Add Events’ permissions to set user categories.
Bug fix: Category list did not filter out unavailable categories.
Bug fix: Location slug callback had bad typos.
Bug fix: Fix PHP notice if $templates not an array.
Bug fix: Fix JS for list view to handle if an event has a language change.
Bug fix: Mini URL used incorrectly.
Bug fix: If primary category is already private, no need to check whether a private category is asigned.
Bug fix: Dynamically manage color in SVG icons.
Bug fix: Delete post meta when dropping database on uninstall.
Bug fix: PHP 8.1. updates.
Bug fix: All day events not rendered correctly in iCal clients. Props @drjoeward.
Change: Manage settings in a single database option rather than individual options.
Change: Improved design on print view.
Change: Refresh undeprecated stylesheets.
Change: Deprecate older stylesheets.
Change: show category icons in event manager.
Change: Render CSS variables using wp_add_inline_style().
Change: Render My Calendar main output without shortcode on defined home location.
Change: Remove a couple very long deprecated functions.
Change: Don’t save default text settings; use coded fallbacks when empty.
Planning: Prep for removal of core CSS editing.
Planning: Prep work for new templating framework.
Planning: Updates to support future changes in My Calendar Pro.
Performance: caching of icon list data.
Accessibility: Improve aria-label patterns so user settings override.
Accessibility: Omit aria-label if link text is already unique.
Accessibility: Improve calendar navigation using AJAX.

3.3.24.1

Bug fix: minified mcjs.min.js was invalid in 3.3.24, breaking jump navigation selector.

3.3.24

Bug fix: Don’t catch non-ajax actions in navigation with JS.
Change: Collapse template preview by default.
Change: Change parsing of POST data when AJAX action executed.

3.3.23

Bug fix: Don’t set to default location if location already set.
Bug fix: Add stopImmediatePropgation to click handlers to prevent other script’s scroll effects
Change: Remove .mcajax class as unneeded.

3.3.22

Bug fix: Mismatched variable type broke default week view.

3.3.21

Bug fix: Accidentally stripped HTML out of all event titles with search excerpt highlighting.

3.3.20

Bug fix: Recurring month by day not propagating correctly.
Bug fix: Available admin input settings not displaying correctly.
Bug fix: Unset style variables array could throw PHP warning.
Change: Improvements to structure of search results.
Change: Change default search result template.
Add: search_results template tag with search term highlighting.

3.3.19

Bug fix: Missing support for ‘show_recurring’ parameter in shortcode builder.
Bug fix: Checkbox input layout in shortcode builder
Bug fix: Locations content filter needs to be restricted to main query only.
Complete documentation of hooks.

3.3.18

Bug fix: img and svg category icon styles applied to list items in category admin.
Bug fix: duplicate sprintf call missing arguments.
Bug fix: Globally review & align var type declarations with params & returns in functions & documentation.
Bug fix: Fix some date iteration on recurring events in iCal exports.
Change: Return http 500 if invalid URL passed to print view return URL.
Continuing hook documentation.

3.3.17

Security Fix: XSS flaw in print view.
Bug fix: View full calendar could be empty if settings not edited.
Bug fix: View full calendar text default not translatable.
Bug fix: Allow class attribute on time element.
Change open in new tab text to ‘new tab’.
Label error source in cases where wp_die() is used.
Switch subscription links to webcal: protocol.
Begin adding hook documentation at https://joedolson.github.io/my-calendar/
Begin adding framework for future version of template handling.

3.3.16

Bug fix: Incorrectly passed list type caused templates to encode html entities.

3.3.15

Bug fix: CPT base values shouldn’t allow URL-invalid characters.
Bug fix: Improper variable type checking in mc_settings checkboxes.
Bug fix: Unset search variable in auto-generated display hashes.
New filters: Filter event object. (multilanguage support in Pro)
New filter: Filters on single event HTML. (multilanguage support in Pro)
Add: language attribute in main, today, and upcoming events shortcodes.

3.3.14

Bug fix: Variables undefined if scripts disabled.
Update tested to value for WP 6.0.

3.3.13

Bug fix: Don’t display empty field containers if field settings are empty.
Bug fix: Pass version number to core stylesheet.
Bug fix: Prevent warning from undefined GET variable in previous/next event links.
Bug fix: Allow strong, b, and hr in shortcode output.
Bug fix: Override masking; causing too many display problems.
Bug fix: JS classes in main output used inverted comparisons.
Notice: Custom JS will be disabled and removed in 3.4.
Change: Collapsed view scripts from five files to one file.
Change: Load new combined file minified.

3.3.12

Bug fix: Find title and find event should use nearest event, not first event.
Bug fix: Title replacement used event ID improperly if mc_id not passed.
Bug fix: Seed GUID with home_url.
Bug fix: Don’t throw warnings if host/author ID no longer exists.
Bug fix: Handle recurring event codes if passed from event importer.

3.3.11

Bug fix: Modifying a category didn’t refresh the icon SVG for that category.
Bug fix: Contextual help should be viewable with ‘view help’ capability.
Bug fix: Allow img in event title templates.
Bug fix: ‘all’ category limit could be cast to an integer, breaking links.
Change: text changes to location select label for clarification of purpose.
Change: allow mc_bulk_actions() to take a second argument with events to modify.

3.3.10

Bug fix: aria-current not rendered on event manager filters.
Bug fix: published filter not marked as current by default.
Bug fix: Cache allowed sites for CORS headers on multisite networks.
Bug fix: fread error if no stylesheet defined.
Bug fix: Extra closing div in single-day view.
Bug fix: Better support for local user time.
Change: Wrapper function for My Calendar time format: mc_time_format()

3.3.9

Feature: Ability to merge duplicate locations.
Bug fix: New locations created with events were not properly saved with the event, leading to possible location duplications.
Bug fix: Add location to table should not be checked when copying an event.
Bug fix: Possible fix to meta permissions.
Bug fix: Fall back to non-fulltext queries if search term below length limit.
Bug fix: ‘search’ nav item not rendering.

3.3.8

Bug fix: Generated a duplicate location if event with location unselected location.
Bug fix: Setting an event’s all day label text to blank should not be overridden by defaults.
Bug fix: Delete single event from front-end pointed to wrong destination.
Bug fix: Missing help text for copying events.
Change: Minor text change to empty location value.
Change: Clear list items in list view (CSS)

3.3.7

Bug fix: Fixes location admin verification error in manage locations list.

3.3.6

Bug fix: Event template previews should only show to users who can use them.
Bug fix: Category key icons should show background colors when configured.

3.3.5

Bug fix: Default values for screen options were not called.
Bug fix: Event count dots should not show in print view.
Bug fix: PHP notice if mc_id not set on single event views.
Bug fix: Documentation link led to removed page.
Bug fix: Modal help links should open in parent window, not within modal.
Bug fix: Search query sent to docs site should not be translatable.
Bug fix: JPG or GIF custom icons should be accepted.
Bug fix: Template attributes containing HTML stripped attributes in template manager.
Bug fix: PHP Warning when checking for private category property and object not defined.
Bug fix: Don’t show admin grid view location dropdown if more than 200 locations.
Bug fix: Prevent large icons from overflowing custom icon list.
Bug fix: Fix display of custom icons in icons modal.
Performance: only run mc_create_tags() once per event.
Performance: cache whether icons are custom rather than inspecting directory for every icon load.
New filter: mc_display_location_events on upcoming event arguments for location screen.
Change: label My Calendar page in pages list.

3.3.4

Bug fix: is_single() shouldn’t be called in admin
Bug fix: Prevent invalid events from breaking year dropdown.
Bug fix: Make sure category colors are important.
Bug fix: Set margins to 0 on input/button in nav.
Bug fix: Decreasing font sizes in nav caused too many problems in older themes.
Bug fix: Don’t insert locations if no data passed to inserter.
Bug fix: Delete location argument was not used.
Bug fix: don’t output empty locations.
Bug fix: ‘span’ is not an attribute on ‘span’.
Bug fix: Verify validity of category relationships when parsing admin lists.
Bug fix: $templates was undefined and broke saving templates.
Bug fix: missing quote in ‘delete template’ button.
Bug fix: custom templates sanitized incorrectly.
Bug fix: translations link went to old translations site.
Bug fix: Handle what happens if default category is deleted.
Bug fix: Invalid class not reset in admin lists.
Bug fix: date displayed in wrong timezone in admin recurring events list.
Change: If location without any unique data is listed in admin, auto delete.
Change: changes to add dates UI to clarify usage.

3.3.3

Bug fix: Timezone omits positive/negative signifier in JSON LD in UTC+ timezones.
Bug fix: Widen location autocomplete field.
Bug fix: Fix show location shortcode templating.
Bug fix: Recur daily by weekday did not produce valid times.
Bug fix: Skip holidays default state filter missing.
Bug fix: Only apply default state on special case recurrence fields on new events.
Bug fix: Category relationships not updated correctly if category deleted.
Bug fix: File path incorrectly referenced when finding custom icon directories.

3.3.2

Change: Add classes representing start time and event length.
Bug fix: Remove unneeded generic class declarations.
Bug fix: Show stored location, not event location, in events list.
Bug fix: Add missing elements to KSES filters for widgets.
Bug fix: Incorrect logic to hide read more link.
Feature: Add field to set calendar month heading.

3.3.1

Bug fix: Bulk removal of locations broken.
Bug fix: SVG category icons should not be queried remotely; use filesystem.
Layout: wider max-width by default, center calendar in container.
Bug fix: Display more information link had inverted logic & wrong label.
Bug fix: Don’t show location link if location is not post type mc-locations.
Bug fix: Week view could end up offset incorrectly in some views due to dates getting double timezone offsets.
Bug fix: Provide back-compatibility for tabs in older versions of My Calendar Pro

3.3.0

Backend Changes:

Replaced date picker with the Duet Design Systems accessible date picker.
Accessibility & usability improvements to adding additional occurrences to an event. (DB change)
Add support for custom fields on locations. See demo at Github
Extensive back-end user experience changes.
Link location title to edit screen in location manager
Improve checkbox labeling in event manager.
Improve button labeling in nav ordering.
Add row actions to Location manager.
Add support for custom columns in location manager.
Bug fix: use aria tab panels properly in settings.
Removed upgrade cycles & associated code for upgrading from version 2.3.x (last release in 2015.)
Support aria-sort on sortable tables.
Locations support both descending & ascending sort.
Bug fix: pagination when sorting in event manager.
Update settings configuration for default calendar URL.
New setting to control whether plugin settings are removed on uninstall.
Text changes for clarity & simplification
Change ‘Short Description’ to ‘Excerpt’ for clarity
Collapse ‘Event Groups’ and ‘Events List’ into a single screen.
Inline help pop-ups
Show event count for category links.
Add settings manager to My Calendar primary view page.
Updated recurring events input method.
Add category during event creation.
Make event bulk actions a dropdown.
With Google Maps API, auto query lat/lon data for locations.
Add calendar view for navigating events in admin.
Simplify featured image support.
Use checkboxes to select categories in widgets & shortcode generator.
Show warning if screen has unsaved changes
Template tag & event template previews.

Bug fixes:

Bug fix: Deleting a location from the location manager should not send user to the location editor.
Bug fix: row action links not properly labeled.
Bug fix: row action links not becoming visible on focus.
Bug fix: PHP warning on installations without saved locations.
Bug fix: Screen options weren’t able to retrieve user settings correctly.
Bug fix: Event manager displayed recurring event options on single event editing screens.
Bug fix: Form overflows in responsive views.
Bug fix: Need breaking container in map bubble after location name.
Bug fix [a11y]: Ensure focus isn’t loss in sortable lists; announce change via wp.a11y.speak.
Bug fix: If no previous or next event, generated numerous PHP errors.
Stylesheet previewer in Design manager.
Only show “special scheduling options” when relevant.
Add Help tab to explain statuses.
Add color picker to CSS variable UI

Frontend changes:

Add front-end location view.
Update default custom templates.
Support filtering by multiple locations in calendar shortcodes or by filter.
Change: use a stateful heading for all calendar views.
Change: Support AJAX navigation on date select form.
Bug fix: Override custom select styles from Twenty Twenty One
New: recurring-event classes in event lists.
Rewrote Google Maps scripting
New SVG category icons, sourced from Font Awesome (https://fontawesome.com/license)
New default stylesheet: twentytwentyone.css
Individual display settings for different calendar views
Creates demo content on initial installation.
Enable pretty permalinks by default on new installations
Add accessibility fields as a default event output.
Removed RSS feeds.
Always show event title in pop-up.
Update default date/time formatting.
Support search in calendar navigation.
Support category dropdown in calendar navigation.
Support location dropdown in calendar navigation.
Support accessibility feature dropdown in calendar navigation.
Support ld+json schema.org data for events and locations.
Changed heading structure for main calendar view.
Add event number to list view and event number hint in mini view.
‘Show recurring’ flag in upcoming events list.
Upcoming events list should not wrap empty value in ul
New default stylesheet

Developer Changes:

New actions: ‘mc_event_happening’, ‘mc_event_future’, ‘mc_event_over’ executed whenever an event is compared to the current time, usable for automatic transitions and notifications.
Filter: ‘mc_output_is_visible’ to determine whether a given display feature should be shown on calendar.
Disable sending email notifications for Spam events. Add action to optionally handle spam notifications.
Remove the process shortcodes option. Shortcodes can be disabled using ‘mc_process_shortcodes’ filter.
Published documentation to https://docs.joedolson.com/my-calendar/
New filter to add custom permissions. ‘mc_capabilities’
New filter for event details mc_event_detail_{value}
Started work on documenting filters and actions.
Code reorganization.
PHP 8.0 compatibility.

Future Changes

Refactor options storage