Title: Simple Google Calendar Widget
Author: nboehr
Published: <strong>July 8, 2011</strong>
Last modified: December 8, 2016

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# Simple Google Calendar Widget

 By [nboehr](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nboehr/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/simple-google-calendar-widget.zip)

 * [Details](https://ewe.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-google-calendar-widget/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://ewe.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-google-calendar-widget/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://ewe.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-google-calendar-widget/#installation)
 * [Development](https://ewe.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-google-calendar-widget/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-google-calendar-widget/)

## Description

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/)

## Installation

 1. Do the usual setup procedure… you know… downloading… unpacking… uploading… activating.
    Or just install it through the wordpress plugin directory.
 2. As soon as you activated the plugin, you should see a new widget under Design ›
    Widgets. Just drag it into your sidebar.
 3. Fill out all the necessary configuration fields. Under Calendar ID enter the calendar
    ID displayed by Google Calendar. You can find it by going to Calendar settings ›
    Calendars, clicking on the appropriate calendar, scrolling all the way down to “
    Calendar address”. There’s your calendar id.
 4. You’re done!

## Reviews

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6156b59789435e74b87cbbcbb4e41d8bcd834414aa185a62f45b04440b2b6b16?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Does what it says on the box](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-what-it-says-on-the-box-55/)󠁿

 [radnumen](https://profiles.wordpress.org/radnumen/) January 7, 2018 1 reply

I spent a very, very long time trying to find a nice, simple, extensible calendaring
plugin like this. It doesn’t have a lot of features, but it does have the ability
to import .ics and list events which is all I wanted. The code is clean and well-
documented also, so it will be fairly easy to add functionality as I need it.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/623e0b87c486321cb3fde11b429c9825fcdad396e93f335f9170077492ff7b99?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Broke my site](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broke-my-site-134/)󠁿

 [gaell](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gaell/) September 18, 2017

Followed the recommendations (change to a higher PHP version) and broke my site.
No warning given of the consequences.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b97863a64c85d8aec7fa9eae06a58764d9868f469a035c3cc6b820188ab143ad?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Simple, but Effective](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-but-effective-79/)󠁿

 [comlrooney](https://profiles.wordpress.org/comlrooney/) September 3, 2016

Does exactly what it says: exposes a shared Google Calendar using the Google UI.
No fluff, easy to use.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b3f44c4d88767495bd60be4ac7b869ce83f0b1b802c2c362ad4e603579f19ce1?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[does not work](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-not-work-585/)󠁿

 [petri71](https://profiles.wordpress.org/petri71/) September 3, 2016

displays the title but that is all on WP 4.4.2

 [ Read all 6 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-google-calendar-widget/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

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

Contributors

 *   [ nboehr ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nboehr/)

[Translate “Simple Google Calendar Widget” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/simple-google-calendar-widget)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-google-calendar-widget/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/simple-google-calendar-widget/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/simple-google-calendar-widget/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/simple-google-calendar-widget/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 0.1

 * First release.

#### 0.2

 * Fix a bug with recurring events, thanks Atur for reporting

#### 0.3

 * Fix possible Fatal Error when adding the widget to the sidebar, thanks pwndrian
   for reporting and larcher for the suggested fix.

#### 0.4

 * The plugin now respects the time zone set for your wordpress instance (Settings
   > General > Time Zone).

#### 0.5

 * Quick fix for deprecated API. Note that this update removes the link to the Google
   Calendar detail view of events.

#### 0.6

 * Fix broken limit function

#### 0.7

 * Do not cache calendar data if fetching from Google servers failed

## Meta

 *  Version **0.7**
 *  Last updated **9 years ago**
 *  Active installations **200+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.1 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.4.34**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-google-calendar-widget/)
 * Tags
 * [calendar](https://ewe.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/calendar/)[google](https://ewe.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/google/)
   [google calendar](https://ewe.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/google-calendar/)[widget](https://ewe.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://ewe.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-google-calendar-widget/advanced/)

## Ratings

 3 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ nboehr ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nboehr/)

## Support

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