All In One Events: A Cool Calendar Plugin and Widget for WordPress

January 12, 2012

If your hosting your own events, or promoting events for a business through partnership marketing, it’s wise to organize your events by date, give them searchable content and keywords, and display upcoming events on your sidebar from everyone to see.

All-in-One Event Calendar is one of the best WordPress calendar plugins I’ve come across to help organize and promote all of your events.

screenshot of simple calendar widget

Adding new events is just like adding a new blog post. Instead of “add post” it’s just “add event” from your admin screen. This will add a post-like evenst pages that will contain searchable content, keywords, page titles, and tags, making your events just as SEO friendly as your articles. This additional content will help bring more search traffic to your site.

With your list of event posts, you can display them on a calendar page and a widget. The widget is helpful for promoting your events on all pages, and your homepage. See the calendar widget in action in our promotion for a local comedy club.

With meta dates and times embedded into your event posts, the widget will automatically display the events which are upcoming. The plugin CSS is fully customizable with its own stylesheet. Clicking on an event in the widget will take your visitor to the event’s page to read more, keeping them on your site longer.

You can also display events by category, which was essential for our needs, as we are promoting multiple calenders for separate businesses.

Matt Oberdier

Matt Oberdier received his BFA in Illustration from the College of Creative Studies in Detroit in 2008. He has since worked as a freelance graphic designer & web developer. In his free time, Matt enjoys playing guitar & singing, cooking vegan food, photography and acting.

6 Responses to All In One Events: A Cool Calendar Plugin and Widget for WordPress

Anonymous on February 2, 2012 at 6:58 pm

Can you help me with the css for
mcfaddenartglass.happygreenbabies.com?
I can’t seems to tweek that calendar in the widget.

- Matt Oberdier on February 2, 2012 at 7:06 pm
  
  Hi, rmcfadden. Not sure how versed you are with CSS, but you need to edit the file “general.css” that is contained in the plugin directory. You can do it from the WordPress Dashboard by going to the Plugin editor, selecting the all-in-one plugin, and finding the file on the menu on the right
  
  - Anonymous on February 2, 2012 at 7:33 pm
    
    Thank you. I am pretty good with CSS, but I was looking in the wrong place to edit it. I’ll try this file to see if I can’t get the look I want.
    
    - Anonymous on February 3, 2012 at 1:33 am
      
      No, I’m still having trouble. What exactly did you modify?
      
  - Anonymous on February 3, 2012 at 2:24 am
    
    Okay, I think I got it working now, thank you!
    
Anonymous on February 2, 2012 at 6:59 pm

I’m trying to achieve something similar to what you have done here with the widget. I’d like the end result to blend in more with the dark background