Simple Google Calendar Widget
Displays events from a public Google Calendar as a sidebar widget.
The facts
- Rating
- 3★ from 6
- Active installs
- 200+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 8 Dec 2016
- Added
- Jul 2011
- Requires WP
- 3.1
- Tested up to
- WP 4.4.34
- Downloads
- 34,262
Our analysis
AI-assistedSimple Google Calendar Widget is a WordPress plugin that allows you to display events from a public Google Calendar in a widget format. It enables you to apply custom CSS for styling, making it easier to integrate into your website's design. This plugin is suitable for users who want to showcase calendar events without relying on Google's default HTML snippets, which may not allow for extensive customisation.
The plugin fetches events directly from your Google Calendar and presents them in a sidebar widget. It is designed for those who have some knowledge of CSS and want to personalise the appearance of their calendar display.
Best for: This plugin suits users who need to display Google Calendar events on their WordPress site with custom styling options.
What it does well
- ✓Fetches events from a public Google Calendar
- ✓Allows custom CSS for styling
- ✓Simple widget format for easy integration
Where it falls short
- •Last updated in December 2016
- •Tested only up to WordPress 4.4.34
- •Limited support and low directory score
Verdict
While Simple Google Calendar Widget offers useful functionality for displaying calendar events, its outdated status and low directory score may raise concerns for potential users.
From the developer
nboehr's own description of Simple Google Calendar Widget, lightly tidied.
Google offers some HTML snippets to embed your public Google Calendar into your website. These are great, but as soon as you want to make a few adjustments to the styling, that goes beyond changing some colors, they’re useless. Because of that I wrote a very simple widget, that fetches events from a public google calendar and nicely displays them in form of a widget, allowing you to apply all kinds of CSS. The source code should be quite easy to modify.
License
The plugin is published under the GPL v3. Previous versions (<= 0.2) did not
mention a license; this has been fixed in the latest trunk and will be
included in the next release version.
Contributors
- pemrich (https://profiles.wordpress.org/pemrich/)