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DinkyCal WP

  • Version: 1.0.0
  • Toolicon (SVG): DinkyCal
  • Tagline: Handy calender for managing your events.

Event calendars on a WordPress site tend to bring more than the job needs: a booking suite, tracking scripts, map and font services that load for every visitor, when all you want is a tidy list of dates and venues. DinkyCal WP is a slim plugin to manage and show events, with categories, free-form tags, reusable venues, tours that group the same show across several dates, a detail page per event, blocks and shortcodes, an iCalendar feed to subscribe to, schema.org data for search engines, and German and English included. Nothing is requested from third parties unless a visitor clicks for a map, and no cookies are set. Data moves in and out in the same format as DinkyCal for Joomla, so a calendar can travel between both and back without losing its venues, tours or images.

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Features:

  • Manage events with start and end dates, optional times, categories, tags, a featured image, a description, ticket and info links, and flag them with a notice badge.
  • Keep a shared pool of venues with an address: entered once, reused often; spot duplicates and unused venues, and merge them without losing a single event.
  • Group the same show on several dates into a tour: every date keeps its own venue and description, and each date's page lists the other upcoming dates.
  • Show the calendar your way: an event list with upcoming or past entries, category and club filters, search, date range, month grouping, paging, and a list or card layout.
  • Place events anywhere with blocks (event list, next event, single event) or shortcodes.
  • Get readable URLs from WordPress permalinks, with the date added to the address when two events share a title, an iCalendar feed to subscribe to, an add-to-calendar link on every event, an RSS/Atom feed, and schema.org data for search engines.
  • Work comfortably as an editor: duplicate an event as a draft, change many events at once (category, venue, tour, tags), a handbook inside the admin.
  • Keep visitors' data to themselves: no cookies, and nothing is requested from third parties until a visitor asks for a map.
  • Move data in and out: export to JSON or a ZIP with the images, to iCalendar for other calendar apps, and import it again, with a dry run first, also from WP-CLI.
  • The format is shared with the Joomla sister extension DinkyCal J!, so a calendar can move between the two systems.

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