private-google-calendars

This is an excellent plugin for displaying your Google Calendar. You can skin it easily with your own custom CSS to make it look just as you’d like.

I love it when I’m looking for a plugin that is lightweight and does what I need it to do. I needed a plugin to display multiple private Google calendars and I got exactly that! It loads quickly on the page, is easy to filter, and simple to navigate and set up. Thank you for a great plugin!!

This plugin has been fantastic for a website I’m working on for a nonprofit organization that uses Google Workspace. I’ve been able to create individual calendars for a number of groups within the nonprofit and give each group access to create and update their own calendar events, then display all the events on their website in a single calendar, as well as provide individual calendars for some of the groups. With custom CSS, I’ve been able to style the calendar output to match the website’s theme. The support for this free plugin has consistently been timely and helpful.

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I love it. Thank you for your work!

We all love free plugins, especially ones that don’t charge a dime for “pro” versions or etc. This is one of those: it has some great features, and it is totally free. I will start with the positives to encourage further development, and then list some negatives. The positives are: It does what it says, and presents one or more Gcal’s in a nice, clean, and fast way The initial setup instructions are pretty good, and can usually get you going if you use Oauth for private calendar access There are various display options that give nice flexibility The caching feature is nice, reducing the API calls to Google For free, those are pretty nice. The downsides are several, though: It only seems to operate correctly in Oauth mode, giving access from the wordpress site and all admins therein to All of the calendars on the connected account. I ended up spending a bunch of time using a secondary account that had the calendars I wanted shared to it (and publicly), to avoid potential breach of my private calendars in the main account. I would far prefer to have a supported option to access only public calendars via the API key, but I tried that several times and it would not work. (Plus, the docs say that’s “unsupported.” It conflicts with several other plugins that use Oauth, including the well-written and supported “Use Your Drive” plugin and even Elementor Pro. Specifically, it blocks them from using Oauth to initially connect to external services. So this plugin has to be turned off to connect those, then it can be turned back on. While this is just a “minor inconvenience,” it took hours of wasted time to figure out what was going on. And then a support thread that was opened has been ignored for almost a week about that. Personally, I would rather pay for a plugin and get some real support, than have to wait for ??? amount of time for a fix to a problem like this. If you want any control over the display beyond the default, the documentation is somewhat limited, though after the author’s response to my initial review I see there is a helpful examples page. This would solve some of the issues I had getting this to do what I need it to. This is a great plugin. Just beware, there is no upfront charge for this plugin, but if you value your time, there is a cost. It takes more to set up than the typical wordpress plugin (and I’ve set up 100’s over the past 10 years). There are no great alternatives (only one commercial alternative whose install immediately caused a conflict), and this plugin is the main show. So I’ll give it 4 stars. It’s great but not perfect.