Installation

Events calendar installation from your dashboard

1. In your WordPress dashboard, go to Plugins → Add New Plugin.
2. Search for Monthly Events Calendar.
3. Click Install Now on the plugin by HaywoodTech, then Activate.

A new Events menu appears in the dashboard.

Manual install: download the zip from WordPress.org, then go to Plugins → Add New Plugin → Upload Plugin, choose the zip and activate it.

Create your first event

1. Go to Events Calendar → Add new Event.
2. Enter a title and a description.
3. In Event Details, pick the start and end date and time. Tick All-day event if it has no start time, and check the Timezone (it defaults to your site’s).
4. Under Location Details, choose a saved venue or type a new venue name and address.
5. Under Organizer Details, add an organizer if you like.
6. Set a Highlight Color, a featured image, and categories or tags.
7. Click Publish.

Add the calendar to a page

Block editor: edit a page, add the Monthly Events Calendar block, and choose the default view in the block sidebar.

Shortcode: paste this into any page, widget or page builder:

[wp_monthly_events]

Publish the page and open it — your event is on the calendar. You can also visit /events/ on your site, which shows the calendar automatically (version 1.6 and later).

Recommended next steps

• Under Events Calendar → Settings, choose your date and time format and set Select Calender Page to the page you just made, so category pages link back to it. Settings reference
• Already using The Events Calendar? Your events are probably showing already — see the switching guide.
• If the calendar stays empty, check troubleshooting.