Description

Simple Event Manager is a user-friendly WordPress plugin that simplifies the management and display of events on your website. With this plugin, you can easily create, edit, and organize events without any coding knowledge. It offers an intuitive interface and numerous features to manage your events efficiently and display them attractively.

Key Features:

Create and manage events: Add new events with details such as date, time, location, and description.
Recurring events: Create up to 100 independent daily, weekly, or monthly copies from saved event data.
Categories: Organize your events into categories for better structure and filtering.
Image support: Add an image to each event to make it visually appealing.
Filterable event overview: Display paginated events in a clear list that can be filtered by title, category, date, and location.
AJAX-based filtering: Events are filtered without reloading the page, improving the user experience.
Shortcode support: Use the shortcode [simevema_events_overview] to insert the event overview on any page or post. The shortcode offers options to display images, categories, and future events.
Customizable date formats: Choose from various date formats to personalize the appearance of your events.
Customizable design: Adjust colors, spacing, typography, columns, cards and single-event layouts under “Events” > “Design”.
Theme compatibility: Classic themes use the plugin or theme event template; block themes retain Site Editor templates and receive the same event metadata.
Responsive Design: The plugin is fully responsive and adapts to all screen sizes.

Usage

Add Events: Go to “Events” > “New Event” in the WordPress dashboard to create a new event.
Use Shortcode: Insert the shortcode [simevema_events_overview] on a page or post to display the event overview. You can use category, show_image, future, show_category, and per_page to control the display.
Adjust Settings: Open “Events” > “Design” to customize colors, spacing, typography and responsive layouts. Empty fields restore their documented defaults; invalid values are replaced with a safe value and reported by WordPress.
Choose data retention: Under “Events” > “Settings”, decide whether plugin data should be permanently removed when the plugin is deleted. Data is retained by default.

Shortcode examples

Insert [simevema_events_overview] into a Shortcode block, the classic editor, or a shortcode element provided by your page builder. This displays the overview and its filter form.

To show upcoming concerts with featured images:

[simevema_events_overview category="concerts" future="true" show_image="true"]

Available attributes:

category="concerts,jazz": Limit the overview to these category slugs and their descendants. Leave empty to allow all categories. Existing category names are also resolved, but slugs are recommended.
future="true": Show events dated today or later in the website timezone. Default: false. Events earlier today remain included.
show_image="true": Display featured images. Default: false.
show_category="false": Hide the category names on event cards. Default: true. The category filter remains available.
per_page="12": Set the number of events per page. The default is 12; accepted values are 1 to 100.

Use true or false for boolean attributes; 1 and 0 are also accepted.

Filter behavior

The shortcode defines the base selection. The visitor’s search, category, exact location and inclusive date range narrow that selection. Selecting an earlier start date cannot override future="true". Parent categories include their descendants, including when a child category is selected in the form.

Initial page loading, ordinary GET submission without JavaScript and AJAX filtering share the same query and event-card renderer. The search covers event text using WordPress search. Only published events without password protection appear in the public overview and location choices.

Pagination follows the same behavior. With JavaScript enabled, only the selected overview is updated. Without JavaScript, the owning GET form submits the requested page normally. Changing a filter starts again on page one.

You can add multiple overviews to one page. Each form has unique field IDs and updates its own overview. Without JavaScript, submitting a form reloads the page and applies the submitted filters to that overview; other overviews return to their shortcode defaults. Existing filter URLs without an overview identifier continue to apply to all overviews.

Support and Feedback

If you have any questions or issues, you can contact the plugin developer Sebastian Barg from Webdesign and more. Visit the plugin website https://webdesign-barg.de for more information and support.

With Simple Event Manager, you have a powerful tool at hand to present your events professionally and user-friendly. Try it out and design your event pages today!

Screenshots

Filter by category — Website overview of all events

Installation

Download the plugin from WordPress.org or search for “Simple Event Manager” in the WordPress plugin directory.
Install and activate the plugin via the WordPress dashboard.
Create your first events and add the shortcode [simevema_events_overview] to a page or post to display the event overview.

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Contributors & Developers

“Simple Event Manager” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Sebastian Barg

“Simple Event Manager” has been translated into 2 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

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Changelog

3.0.0

Use the current WordPress post context when displaying event-detail validation notices.
Normalized line endings across the distributed plugin files.
Sanitized and validated recurrence request values immediately after reading them.
Limited event filter metadata clauses to active filters and documented the required metadata queries.
Unregister event routes and flush rewrite rules when the plugin is deactivated.
Register the uninstall hook during activation instead of on every request.
Prefix the public AJAX action and expose it through the localized frontend configuration.
Align the shipped CSS and JavaScript formatting with the WordPress coding standards.
Added bounded, accessible overview pagination and the per_page shortcode attribute.
Batched location lookup and added stable date, time, and ID ordering for paginated results.
Added strict event date and time validation with an editor notice for rejected values.
Fixed website-timezone date display in frontend output and admin columns.
Limited recurrence generation to 100 copies and fixed monthly recurrence at month ends.
Preserved passwords, scheduled publication dates, block content, backslashes, categories, and featured images in recurring copies.
Added recurrence permission checks and visible created, skipped, failed, and schedule-adjustment results.
Moved both event-detail and recurrence metaboxes into the main editor column.
Protected single-event metadata and featured images with the WordPress post password.
Preserved block-theme and Site Editor templates while sharing event metadata across classic and block output.
Added opt-in uninstall cleanup, including multisite batches; data is retained by default.
Registered both event rewrite providers before activation flushes and added a one-time update flush.
Versioned frontend and admin assets with the plugin version.
Prepared all runtime strings for official WordPress.org translation packs and expanded isolated regression coverage.
Unified and documented the [simevema_events_overview] shortcode.
Made filtering consistent across initial page load, GET form submissions, and AJAX requests.
Added unique form IDs so multiple shortcodes work correctly on the same page.
Protected shortcode attributes against request manipulation.
Restricted public event listings to published, non-password-protected events.
Fixed category filtering so child categories are handled correctly.
Improved accessibility with associated labels and AJAX status/error messages.
Reworked design settings to use the WordPress Settings API consistently.
Kept all 81 existing design options and saved values compatible.
Added guidance for accepted design values and their defaults.
Safely replaces invalid design values and reports them in the WordPress admin.
Validates stored CSS values again before frontend output.
Fixed the overview-card text-size option so it now affects the displayed meta values.
Prepared new backend strings for official WordPress.org translation packs.
Added regression tests for shortcode filtering, JavaScript behavior, and design settings.

2.0.4

Ready for WordPress 7.1

2.0.3

Ready for WordPress 7.0

2.0.2

Fastfix

2.0.1

Delete old data

2.0.0

Complete overhaul of the plugin
New design settings page for maximum flexibility when adapting the module to existing websites
Improved recurrence process: events can now be marked as recurring at any time, even after they have been created. The relevant setting is now located in the sidebar and is no longer tied to the initial creation process. This ensures better compatibility with different themes and builders.
The filter function remains unchanged in terms of functionality, but its internal structure has been optimized: setup and maintenance are now clearly separated.
When the plugin is deleted, its associated settings are now also removed from the database.
Translation follows

1.1.2

Recurrence options are now only shown when creating a new parent event.
For already saved parent events and child events, the recurrence fields are no longer displayed.
Instead, the following notice appears: “Recurring events can only be created when creating an event. Events that have already been generated are independent.”
Recurring events can now be created either after a specified number of repetitions or until a specific end date.
Generated recurring events continue to be stored as independent child events.
A new admin JavaScript now controls the display of the recurrence fields dynamically: selecting “Repeat” shows the additional options, selecting “after number” shows only the number field, and selecting “until date” shows only the date field.
The admin script is loaded only in the editing area of the simevema_event custom post type.

1.1.1

Bugfix

1.1.0

Improved and cleaned the code structure.
Moved layout settings from Customizer to Plugin settings page for better compatibility.
Updated and refined translations.

1.0.16

Added full English and German translations.

1.0.15

Fixed JS.
Fixed template bug.

1.0.14

Improved error handler.
Fixed CSS bug.
Ready for WordPress 6.9.
Fixed filter bug.

1.0.13

Fixed category bug.

1.0.12

Fixed Customizer class.
Added screenshot.

1.0.11

Added Customizer support for design.
Reduced design to minimum.
Added CSS classes.
Added support for past event search if “future” is enabled.

1.0.10

Fixed future events with category filter.

1.0.9

Fixed future events.

1.0.8

Tested with WordPress 6.8.1.

1.0.7

Tested with WordPress 6.8.

1.0.6

Small bugfix.

1.0.5

Added span classes for overview.

1.0.4

Improved release.

1.0.3

Fixed class name bug.

1.0.2

Added filter function.

1.0.1

Fixed template bug.
Fixed deletion routine bug when deleting the plugin.
Added function for recurring events.

1.0

Initial release.