MiMe Simple Events and Calendar

MiMe Simple Events and Calendar adds a native Events section to WordPress. It is designed for websites that need clear one-off and recurring event publishing without ticketing, interactive maps or the overhead of a large event suite. Event publishing

• Create events in the familiar WordPress editor.
• Add a start, optional end, all-day state, venue, address and external links.
• Use separate event categories and tags without mixing them with blog posts.
• Mark events as scheduled, postponed or cancelled independently of their WordPress publication status.
• Keep each event's original timezone when the website timezone changes.
• Use WordPress revisions and a safe Duplicate event action.

Recurring events

• Repeat events daily, on selected weekdays, monthly, yearly or on selected dates.
• End a repeating schedule on a date, after a fixed number of occurrences, or keep it open-ended within the plugin's safe projection window.
• Review the exact impact before applying changes to the complete series or this and following occurrences.
• Edit, move, postpone, cancel or restore only one occurrence without duplicating the complete event.
• Convert a repeating series back to one deliberately selected event through a separate confirmation step.

Display options

• Native single-event and event-archive pages for classic and block themes.
• Responsive event list and grid with bounded card controls, modern optional category/tag filters and pagination.
• Semantic checkbox filters with removable active choices, clear/restore actions, shareable URLs and a complete no-JavaScript fallback.
• Month and list calendar views with optional category colors, event color choices, an accessible legend, an initial date and configurable toolbar groups.
• An accessible upcoming-event fallback when JavaScript is unavailable or the calendar cannot load.
• Three complete Gutenberg components, twelve dynamic individual event-field blocks, one Add to Calendar block and a single-event pattern.
• Four complete shortcodes: [wpse_events], [wpse_calendar], [wpse_event_details] and [wpse_add_to_calendar].
• One-way local ICS download with optional Google and Outlook compose actions.
• Event JSON-LD on eligible single-event pages, with an administrator opt-out.

Optional Elementor integration Elementor 3.35 or newer adds Event List / Grid, Event Calendar, configurable Event Details and Add to Calendar widgets, together with twelve individual event-field widgets. Elementor is optional: the event editor, shortcodes, Gutenberg blocks and native templates work without it. Individual widgets can select a published event on an ordinary Elementor page. In a dynamic event template they can use the current event context. Elementor Pro is only required when the site owner wants to use Elementor's Theme Builder; it is not required by this plugin. Optional Divi 5 integration Divi 5.11.1 or newer adds the same three complete components, twelve individual event-field modules and an Add to Calendar module. They work on ordinary Divi pages with an explicitly selected public event and in Divi Theme Builder templates with the current event or exact recurring occurrence. The integration uses Divi's native content, design, responsive and global-preset systems. Divi remains optional and no Divi theme code, licence data or updater credentials are included in this plugin. Privacy by design The plugin does not create visitor cookies, collect analytics or telemetry, load remote scripts, or send information to MiMe or another external service. Calendar requests stay on the same WordPress website. Event content entered by site editors—including dates, venues, addresses and links—is stored in the website's own WordPress database. Published event information can be visible in page HTML, Event JSON-LD, the WordPress REST API and the plugin's bounded calendar feed. Do not publish private information as event content. Draft, private and password-protected event details are excluded from public plugin collections; protected event metadata is also removed from public core REST responses while the WordPress password is still required. Recurring schedules remain canonical protected WordPress metadata. A local rebuildable occurrence index stores only the bounded dates, status, stable identity and parent event relationship needed for chronological queries. It contains no event body, password, taxonomy copy, visitor data or remote identifier. External location and event links are contacted only when a visitor chooses them. They open in an isolated new tab without passing a referrer. The destination website has its own privacy practices. Deactivation never deletes event data. Plugin deletion also preserves events and settings by default. An administrator can explicitly opt into permanent cleanup under Events > Settings; shared media remains untouched. The complete source, build instructions and security policy are available at https://github.com/MilanMiMeOnline/WP-Simple-Events.

0.7.0

• Add an optional local ICS download for one public one-off event or one exact recurring occurrence.
• Add opt-in Google Calendar and Outlook compose actions with isolated external links and clear snapshot semantics.
• Add an atomic Add to Calendar shortcode, Gutenberg block, Elementor widget and native Divi 5 module over one shared renderer.
• Add an off-by-default native single-event action that never overrides Elementor or Divi Theme Builder ownership.
• Preserve captured timezones, exclusive all-day ends, stable occurrence identities and RFC 5545 text escaping and folding.
• Keep exports public-only and fail closed for drafts, private, password-protected, cancelled, stale or ambiguous event contexts.
• Return local calendar files through a same-origin no-store endpoint without visitor cookies, remote assets or background provider requests.

0.6.0

• Replace modifier-key multiple selects with semantic category/tag checkboxes, removable choices and clear or restore-default actions.
• Add component-responsive filter disclosures, bounded option search, shareable isolated state and complete no-JavaScript operation.
• Add optional category and deterministic event colors with accessible text contrast, filter swatches and an Auto/Show/Hide calendar legend.
• Show resolved colors as compact dots beside ordinary timed month events while keeping all-day and spanning events as readable solid blocks.
• Add shared filter content and design controls across Gutenberg, Elementor and Divi while preserving existing saved defaults and shortcode output.
• Fix event taxonomy archive headings that could expose WordPress' decorative span markup as visible text.
• Keep queries bounded, color metadata cache-primed and existing events visually unchanged until a new color or presentation setting is chosen.

0.5.1

• Make open-ended recurrence previews explain their rolling public projection and hide rule-only end controls for one-off and selected-date schedules.
• Add a concise recurrence summary to the native Events overview and clearer source, taxonomy and typography labels in Elementor.
• Label timed multi-day calendar-list segments as starting, continuing or ending while preserving all-day wording.
• Add bounded previous-date, next-date and canonical-series navigation to native exact-occurrence pages.
• Keep calendar feed requests on the active site origin so equivalent host aliases and reverse proxies cannot cause false cross-origin failures.

0.5.0

• Add fifteen native Divi 5 modules with ordinary-page, Theme Builder, responsive-device and global-preset support.
• Resolve the current one-off event or exact recurring occurrence in Divi Theme Builder while keeping explicit selections public and password-free.
• Add a bounded authenticated Divi composite-preview endpoint with exact document capabilities and generic fail-closed empty states.
• Keep mounted calendars synchronized with Divi device-preview breakpoint changes and namespace dynamic preview IDs per module instance.
• Harden permanent recurring-event deletion against projection races and repair bounded orphan occurrence rows.
• Preserve plugin operation when Divi is absent, inactive or unsupported, and exclude all licensed Divi code and credentials from the release.

0.4.0

• Add bounded recurring events for daily, weekly, monthly, yearly and selected-date schedules.
• Add explicit Complete series, Only this occurrence and This and following edit scopes with review-before-apply confirmations.
• Add manual occurrences, reversible cancellations and sparse per-occurrence date, status, title, image, venue and action overrides.
• Make lists, calendars, feeds, archives, Gutenberg blocks, Elementor widgets, REST, canonical URLs and Event JSON-LD occurrence-aware.
• Add fail-closed occurrence indexing, health checks, bounded repair and renewal, Core sitemap discovery and conservative no-store leaf caching.
• Preserve one-off event behaviour, established public component identifiers and theme/Elementor template ownership.

0.3.0

• Add native Event List / Grid, Event Calendar and complete Event Details blocks for Gutenberg.
• Add practical, opt-in presentation controls across Elementor, Gutenberg and shared public components.
• Make event category and tag archives use event chronology while preserving the active theme shell.
• Improve Elementor calendar previews, visitor filter reset behaviour, responsive grids and accessible component semantics.
• Preserve existing event data, shortcodes, block names, Elementor widget identifiers and visual defaults.

0.2.5

• Support PHP 8.2 while continuing to support PHP 8.3, 8.4 and 8.5.
• Test the complete PHP quality suite and packaged WordPress compatibility journeys against the new minimum.
• Refresh development dependencies to patched releases; these tools are not shipped with the plugin.

0.2.4

• Preserve the active theme or Elementor header and footer on event archives and individual events in classic themes that also contain theme.json.
• Keep full block-theme templates and explicit PHP or block-template overrides working through a tested template hierarchy.
• Add a real WordPress compatibility matrix covering classic, hybrid and full block themes plus both override mechanisms.

0.2.3

• Rename the pre-approval public identity to MiMe Simple Events and Calendar with the mime-simple-events-calendar slug.
• Preserve existing event data, shortcodes, Gutenberg blocks and Elementor widget identifiers across the rename.
• Update the WordPress.org banners, translations, release package and development dependencies.

0.2.2

• Protect password-locked event metadata in the public WordPress REST API while preserving authorized editor access.
• Add professional WordPress.org documentation, privacy guidance, icons, banners and product screenshots.
• Pin continuous-integration actions to reviewed immutable revisions.

0.2.1

• Establish the initial pre-approval distribution identity while preserving all event storage and content identifiers.
• Open location and external event actions safely in a new tab.
• Expose Edit with Elementor for individual Events on compatible Elementor installations.