Belltime Events Calendar – Recurring Events & iCal Feed
Belltime Events Calendar is an events calendar for sites where a wrong time has a cost — venues, studios, course providers, conference organisers. It does three things carefully and leaves the rest alone. Recurring events, in full, in the free plugin. Not just “every week”: intervals, occurrence cou
Belltime Events Calendar is an events calendar for sites where a wrong time has a cost — venues, studios, course providers, conference organisers. It does three things carefully and leaves the rest alone.
Recurring events, in full, in the free plugin. Not just “every week”: intervals, occurrence counts, end dates, ordinal weekdays such as the second Tuesday or the last Friday, days of the month counted from either end, months of the year, set positions, explicit extra dates, and cancelled dates. If your quiz night is every other Tuesday and your class is the first Saturday of the month, the plugin expresses both and produces the right dates for them.
Occurrences are never database rows. A weekly class running for two years is one event with one rule, not 104 posts in your database, your sitemap and every other plugin’s queries. The dates are worked out when a page is drawn. No scheduled job generates anything, and there is nothing to reconcile when you edit a series. Cancelling or moving a single occurrence records only that exception — the rest of the series keeps its dates and its links.
Times that stay right. Every event stores a wall-clock time, a length, and the name of its timezone. That combination is what keeps a 19:00 event at 19:00 after the clocks change, keeps a two-hour event two hours long across a daylight-saving transition, and lets a touring show carry the local time of each city it plays. When the timezone database is updated, the derived values are recalculated rather than left to drift.
What it includes
- Events with title, description, featured image, location, organiser, link, categories and tags
- Per-event timezone, overriding the site default where needed
- All-day events
- Full recurrence, as described above, expanded when the page is drawn
- Move, rename or cancel a single occurrence without touching the series
- Month grid and list views, as a block and as a shortcode
- Archive and single-event views from the post type
- An outgoing iCal feed visitors can subscribe to in their own calendar app
