Papex University Schedule is a flexible WordPress scheduling plugin for creating, managing, importing, exporting, printing, and publishing schedules.
It was originally developed for universities and other educational institutions, but its scheduling system can be used for many other purposes. You can use it for class timetables, employee schedules, work shifts, duty rosters, appointments, service teams, training sessions, meetings, events, field work, room schedules, and personal planning.
The plugin is useful anywhere you need to organize activities by date and time and display them as a clear monthly calendar on a WordPress website.
More than a university timetable
The plugin uses educational terms such as
groups,
teachers,
rooms, and
lessons, but these entities can also represent other kinds of schedules:
- Group can represent a class, department, team, crew, shift, project, or category.
- Teacher can represent a teacher, employee, technician, specialist, trainer, consultant, or responsible person.
- Room can represent a classroom, office, workplace, facility, site, address, or other location.
- Lesson can represent a class, work shift, appointment, meeting, duty period, service visit, training session, event, or any other scheduled activity.
This makes the plugin suitable not only for universities, institutes, colleges, schools, and training centres, but also for companies, workshops, service organizations, sports clubs, teams, independent specialists, and personal use.
Personal planning
Papex University Schedule can also be used as a simple personal planning calendar.
You can add your own tasks, meetings, scheduled work, appointments, or other activities so that they remain visible in one calendar. The plugin does not provide push notifications or reminder alerts; it is intended for organizing and displaying scheduled items.
Main features
- Create and edit scheduled items in the WordPress administration area.
- Separate directories for groups, teachers, and rooms.
- Custom colours for groups.
- Responsive monthly schedule calendar.
- Filter schedule items by group.
- Previous, next, and current month navigation.
- Current-day indicator.
- Mobile-friendly calendar layout.
- Start times displayed directly in the mobile calendar.
- Detailed list of items for the selected day.
- Full item details displayed in a modal window.
- Date, start time, and end time.
- Group, teacher, and room information.
- Full description field.
- Clickable links in descriptions.
- XLSX import with file type validation and a 20 MB size limit.
- Technical XLSX export for editing and re-importing.
- Formatted XLSX export for viewing and printing.
- Calendar and table print layouts.
- Browser printing and PDF saving.
- A4 and A3 print formats with portrait and landscape options.
- Search, filtering, and sorting in the WordPress administration area.
- Schedule management access for WordPress administrators and editors.
- Schedule data stored in dedicated database tables instead of WordPress posts and post metadata.
Examples of use
Papex University Schedule can be used for:
- university, institute, college, and school timetables;
- training centres and courses;
- faculties and departments;
- employee schedules;
- work shifts;
- duty rosters;
- service and repair teams;
- technicians and field workers;
- appointments and consultations;
- sports and training schedules;
- meetings and events;
- room and facility schedules;
- workshops and small businesses;
- personal schedules and planning;
- other activities associated with a specific date and time.
In practice, the plugin can be used anywhere a WordPress website needs a clear and convenient schedule calendar.
Displaying the schedule
Add the following shortcode to any WordPress page:
[papex_university_schedule]
The monthly schedule calendar will be displayed on that page.
Excel import and export
The plugin supports XLSX import and export.
The main visible columns are:
- Date
- Start time
- End time
- Title
- Group
- Teacher
- Room
- Description
During import, groups, teachers, and rooms are matched by their exact names against the existing plugin directories.
Two export formats are available:
- Technical Excel — intended for editing and re-importing.
- Formatted Excel — intended for convenient viewing and printing.
Language
The plugin uses translatable WordPress strings and is available through the WordPress translation system.