What are the best WordPress calendar plugins? An overview

For the popular content man­age­ment system WordPress, there are special calendar plugins that can be in­teg­rated just as easily as, for example, plugins for contact forms, WordPress news­let­ter plugins, or WordPress gallery plugins.

What makes a good WordPress calendar plugin?

A WordPress calendar should def­in­itely be re­spons­ive. In­creas­ingly, websites are accessed only via mobile devices. Users expect perfect vis­ib­il­ity on mobile phones and similar devices. Ad­di­tion­ally, the following features are important:

• Cus­tom­is­ab­il­ity: A good WordPress calendar plugin should let you adjust colours and ty­po­graphy so it blends seam­lessly with your site’s design.
• Flexible data man­age­ment: It should allow you to manage recurring details like locations or or­gan­ising teams as separate data entries.
• Import function: The option to import existing calendar data adds con­veni­ence — though support for common calendar or database formats is often limited to premium versions.
• In­di­vidu­al man­age­ment: Useful extras include setting a custom start day for the week, managing recurring events, storing event locations sep­ar­ately, and linking them to maps.
• Tags and filters: Cat­egor­ies, filters, and the ability to add de­scrip­tions, images, and links make your calendar clearer, more in­ter­act­ive, and easier to navigate.

The icing on the cake is the – prefer­ably easy-to-use – in­ter­faces to booking systems or online shops. WordPress chat plugins also fit well with calendar ap­plic­a­tions like these.

A com­par­is­on of the main WordPress calendar plugins

Simpler WordPress calendar plugins are usually free, while extensive WordPress calendars with many features and in­ter­faces are premium versions that require payment—either as a one-time fee or a recurring annual charge. Thus, it’s worth assessing your exact needs be­fore­hand to avoid un­ne­ces­sary expenses. We present solutions for various re­quire­ments below — from simple event calendars to full-featured WordPress booking calendar plugins.

The Events Calendar

The WordPress calendar plugin The Events Calendar offers numerous features in its free version, which are easy to use – thanks also to good doc­u­ment­a­tion: This includes view options for days, lists, and months. An event list widget, CSV import for events, or­gan­isers, and locations are also in­teg­rated. The event view allows exporting an event in iCal or Google calendar format.

The premium versions cost several hundred pounds per year (for use on an unlimited number of websites) and offer the following features among others:

• Recurring events
• Short­codes
• In­teg­ra­tion with Zoom, Teams, WebEx, and Google Meet
• Status controls
• Livestreams

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Tockify Events Calendar

The Tockify Events Calendar plugin is a calendar tool hosted outside your own WordPress in­stall­a­tion and is now available in 28 languages. It is easily inserted via WordPress shortcode at the desired location on a website, either in the standard version (calendar) or in the mini version (mini):

[tockify component="calendar" calendar="name"]
[tockify component="mini" calendar="name"]

The plugin is re­spons­ive and fully cus­tom­is­able to a website. The admin panel offers a vast array of settings, and various views are already pre­con­figured.

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An account is mandatory. Before incurring monthly costs, you have 14 days to try the WordPress calendar plugin.

CP Multi View Event Calendar

The CP Multi View Event Calendar is a highly cus­tom­is­able calendar plugin for WordPress with multiple visu­al­isa­tion modes and pre­defined styles. Even in the free version, it offers a classic monthly view, similar to Google Calendar, as well as daily and weekly views and recurring events. All this is available for a single website and in 14 languages.

In the premium version, it is possible to use the calendar as a widget. There are 23 different colour palettes, event reminders, import and export of iCal files, merging data from various calendars, and email no­ti­fic­a­tions for ad­min­is­trat­ors about added, deleted, or updated events. A demo with a real WordPress backend makes it easier to get started with this calendar plugin, which also includes a pub­lish­ing wizard.

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Events Manager

The calendar plugin Events Manager optimises a WordPress website for event man­age­ment. Even the basic version is feature-rich: recurring and multi-day events, venue man­age­ment with Google Maps and Zoom meeting in­teg­ra­tion, and booking man­age­ment are included. The Pro version allows, among other things, payment pro­cessing for events and offering vouchers. Ad­di­tion­ally, there’s a con­fig­ur­a­tion tool for a booking form.

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My Calendar

The extension My Calendar is an ac­cess­ible WordPress plugin for event calendars. It lists events from multiple calendars on pages, posts, or in widgets. Sorting can be done by category, author, location, or simply by a list of upcoming events. The calendar views are com­ple­men­ted by mini-calendars that can also fit in a website’s sidebar. Ad­di­tion­ally, in­teg­rat­ing data from remote databases is possible - quite unusual. The Pro version allows event editing by pre­vi­ously approved authors. Besides .ics and .csv import, the paid edition offers mul­ti­lin­gual support and a REST API to display events on multiple websites.

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WP Simple Booking Calendar

The WP Simple Booking Calendar offers very limited features in its free version but it’s a popular choice if you need a simple WordPress booking calendar. It’s just enough to show daily avail­ab­il­ity of a location, for instance. However, with the premium version, calendars can be created without lim­it­a­tion. Import and export in iCalendar format is possible, and there are tooltips on hovering over an event, custom legends, and much more. All options are well-struc­tured on the developer team’s demo page. With the ad­di­tion­al premium add-on WP Booking System, a complete booking system is even available.

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