Events Calendar - my view in 2020
This was another project that I started to look at early in 2020. I now see in May 2024 wordpress.com (automattic.com) have introduced a Block Editor item that allows you to embed a Google Calendar.
This was a pity as a booking and/or events function on a website would be a great thing to have. However, it seems that there are two main solutions to this:
- Pay for a solution (that could be integrated into a Wordpress website) - this is most likely a third-party plugin
- Implement a Wordpress Solution - again probably a plugin developed by wordpress.org developer.
There is now a built-in wordpress.com solution as of May 2024. As I was saying I was first impressed as I was witness the mess that the original owner/webmaster of the Village Hall website made of the wordpress.org plugin. In fact I am nit even sure that it would have ever worked on wordpress.com.
The Events Calendar for wordpress.org
It is not known whether this was the Events Calendar that was downloaded and an attempt to use it on the Village Hall website. The major thing to note here is that the calendar is for integration with a wordpress.org implementation and not wordpress.com sites. Sadly this distiction, the difference between .org and .com versions of Wordpress are not understood by many wordpress.com users.
The Events Calendar
The Events Calendar (family) are the supposed source for the Wordpress Events Calendar. It should be noted that word "family" on the wordpress.org website and the promotional information on their own website indicate that this is a far from free solution.
Calendar Widget
