The *Easiest* Solution for Event Calendars in WordPress
A couple months back, my buddies Elijah Mills and Jonathan Jernigan teamed up and released a brand new plugin called Pie Calendar. What Pie Calendar does is give you a simple way to turn any post, page, or custom post type into a calendar event.
This is perfect for websites for live event venues, municipalities, clubs, sports associations, or memberships — basically anything where people need to gather at a specific time. Of course, there are already a lot of event plugins out there — but if you’ve ever used any of them, you’ll know that “simple” is not part of the equation.
Every time I’ve needed one, I felt like they were all so bloated and inflexible that I’ve opted for creating my own “events” custom post type.
And while that does solve the bloat and flexibility issues, it always meant that I had to go without any kind of calendar component because it would be nearly impossible — or too costly — to develop that out. But unlike all those other event plugins, Pie Calendar actually delivers on the promise to keep things simple. Simply create your post, click the toggle, set the date & time, and bingo — it’s on your calendar. But just because it’s simple doesn’t mean it’s not powerful…
In fact, this week I had a fairly unique scenario that I wasn’t sure how I was going to pull off — but Pie Calendar knocked it out of the park, no sweat. And, better than that, I had it up and running in just a couple minutes.
Today I’m going to take you through my use case and show you exactly how I got my event calendar setup. If that sounds like something that could help you, then stick around and let’s get started!
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