Meridian Events Calendar
The category, and the general questions
- Choosing a WordPress event calendar plugin
- The “best” WordPress events calendar depends on where your events already are
- Free WordPress event calendar plugins, and which limits to look for
- An events calendar with no ticketing attached
- What actually makes an events calendar heavy
- Making sure your events plugin is not slowing the site down
Syncing — what Pro is for
- Syncing Google Calendar into WordPress
- Getting Google Calendar onto a WordPress page without an API key
- Showing Google Calendar events as part of your site
- Outlook calendar into WordPress
- Microsoft 365 calendars in WordPress
- Keeping a WordPress calendar in step with Office 365
- ICS feeds in WordPress, in both directions
- Importing an .ics calendar into WordPress
- Letting people subscribe to your calendar with webcal://
- iCloud calendars into WordPress
- Nextcloud calendars in WordPress
- Teamup calendars in WordPress
- Making WordPress events update themselves from Google Calendar
- Two-way calendar sync, and why one-way is usually the right answer
Recurring events — the loudest complaint in the category
- Recurring events in WordPress
- “Every second Tuesday” — which one do you mean?
- Monthly recurring events, and the months that break them
- Cancelling one date without disturbing the series
- When recurring event permalinks start growing
- RRULE, and how much of it your calendar really supports
- Putting a weekly class timetable on WordPress
- Modelling an event series in WordPress
Time and timezones — the wall
- When WordPress shows the wrong timezone for an event
- Wrong times on a WordPress calendar: diagnose by the size of the error
- Daylight saving, and the two weekends that break calendars
- Giving each event its own timezone
- The calendar that is stuck on a date in the future
- Google Calendar changes are not reaching the website
Showing it, and setting it up
- Event list shortcodes, and what they should let you control
- Events in the block editor
- Events in the sidebar
- Putting the calendar on a page
- Upcoming events lists, and the details everyone gets wrong
- Month grids, and when to use one
- Add-to-calendar buttons, and the one that actually works
- Publishing your calendar as an .ics feed
For venues, gyms, courses and the agencies that build their sites
- The calendar as a venue's shop window
- Gym and studio timetables on WordPress
- Course schedules on WordPress
- Conference agendas on WordPress
- Theatre showtimes, runs and matinees
- Picking a calendar plugin you will install on forty client sites