The perfect events plugin for anyone, but especially developers

  • FriendlyWP

    (@mmcginnis)


    10 years, 8 months ago

    I’ve tried a number of events/calendar plugins on behalf of my clients and this is by FAR the most customizable, well-documented, least-fuss plugin I’ve tried. All the main wanna-have features are free: all-day events, events that span days, events that repeat, a lovely calendar, categories (and user-dictated custom category colors), saved/reusable venues, Google Maps integration, YAY. The paid upgrade gets you booking/e-comm. Very appropriate and well thought out and many kudos to the developers!

    The downside (I guess) is that if you’re not happy with the defaults you need to edit theme/template files to get things exactly as you want them. For me of course that’s a huge plus as I’m a developer and want to be able to tweak everything (and I do mean EVERYTHING – every event/archive layout, widget layouts, everything), but for those who want an admin panel with tons o’ options in it that control the look and feel I guess not so much.

    Another plus for developers: great documentation, and wherever humanly possible it seems like the devs for this plugin have reused WP core functions rather than rolling their own. Love that.

    Thanks!!

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  • Plugin Author Stephen Harris

    (@stephenharris)

    10 years, 8 months ago

    Thanks Michelle!

    I really appreciate this review :). I’ve tried to ensure that the plug-in works well “out of the box” for ordinary users, but I’ve also been mindful of developers, and the plug-in is slightly geared towards them. For instance, I avoid stomping all over the theme and as you point out, not added in a ‘cock pit’ of options to tweak appearance, but rather left it to the templates and theme.

    This has the benefit of meaning the plug-in can be fully integrated into your theme, but with the cost of achieving that involving editing templates. But I guess you can’t please everybody :).

    I’m glad that this approach is appreciated :).

    bluepawn

    (@bluepawn)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    When you pay yes, you can have whatever you want… but the free version is just horrible !

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