WordPress and Google Calendars: How to Style and Integrate Events For Your Site

Kalendas is a new plugin created to help integrate Google calendar events into your WordPress blog. For a long time there has been a lack of decent, easy-to-use solutions for integrating the two. This new plugin contains widgets and shortcodes to display one or all your calendars in an event list.

How to Install Kalendas

Step 1: Install the Minimax

Minimax is a minimal AJAX library that is required for running the Kalendas plugin. Simply install and activate.

Step 2: Install the Kalendas Plugin

After you activate the plugin, you will see Kalendas added to the Dashboard >> Settings menu. There you can configure the plugin to suit your site’s needs, as shown below:

Step 3: Add the Kalendas widget to your sidebar OR include the Kalendas shortcode in your page or post

You can give your calendar a title and then will need to add the calendar’s feed.
If you need help finding the xml feed for your Google calendar, check out these instructions.

The other option is to use a shortcode in pages and posts to output a list of events: [kalendas:title,feed]

*Optional* Step 4: Customize the CSS of the plugin to compliment your site

Copy the file kalendas.css to your theme folder. The plugin will check for it and will add your customizations.

Make sure your calendar is public and that your server’s time zone matches your Google calendar’s time zone. Otherwise, things could get confusing for you and your users. There may be a bug here and there, as it’s a new plugin, but this plugin has the potential to be one of the best options currently available for WordPress and Google event integration.

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