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External Events Calendar

This plugin adds a basic "upcoming events" calendar of links to Wordpress.

By goldenapples·Links·Free
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·30 active installs·Updated 15 years ago
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As of April 2026, External Events Calendar is a WordPress links plugin with 30 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 19K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.9.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Last updated 15 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Broken Link Checker.

0/5Rating
30active installs
19K+total downloads
16 yearssince 2010

Overview

This plugin is useful for listing speaking engagements, upcoming social events, or other calendar listings which link outside of your site. It adds a special link category for “Events Calendar” with meta fields for location and date. Any links in this category can be displayed through a widget withoption to display all events or only future events, show in ascending/descending order, and options to show or hide link images and descriptions.

The Start Date and End Date fields are stored as text fields and can be entered as any standard php-readable date format (i.e. “Aug 1, 2010 5:00pm”, “10/4/11”, and “November 2012” are all acceptable, and will be ordered properly and displayed just as they are entered). The End Date field is optional; if i…

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Compatibility

WordPress2.9.1+ requiredTested up to false
PHPfalse+ required

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

0.4

New features and bugfixes 2/4/11

  • Added “past only” option, to show only past events.
  • New options for behavior of current date (can choose to have upcoming events drop off the calendar when the start date is past, when the end date is past, or to include all events from the current day, or week). This addresses a bug which was reported where events which weren’t given a time would drop off of the calendar on the day they were scheduled.
  • Fixed bug within shortcode that would always display at the top of post content.
  • Added custom date formatting option using any PHP date format string.
  • Removed deprecated functions
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

frankservaisfrankservaisgoldenapplesgoldenapples
Plugin Info
Version
0.4.0
Last Updated
Feb 3, 2011
WP Requires
2.9.1+
Tested Up To
false
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
30
Downloads
19K+
Added
May 12, 2010
Business
Free

Tags

linkswidgetcalendarevents calendarupcoming events

Developer

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goldenapples
3 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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