The first draft of this post started with New Year, New Events Calendar Plugin – expected to be released in mid February. But although this was not our first submission in the WordPress Plugin Directory, this time the approval process was harder than imagined and took longer than expected. This was mainly due to several name rejections and some false-positive code analysis, which we later discovered is now powered by AI algorithms.
Let’s just forget about it. Since we finally managed to overcome the pitfalls 🎉🎉🎉 we are delighted to introduce the newest member of our product family:
Calendas, a modern Events Calendar Plugin for WordPress
https://them.es/plugins/calendas
You may ask yourself … Why another WordPress Calendar Plugin?
This is an easy question to answer. We are very confident that our plugin outperforms similar products on the market.
First of all it is way easier to setup, only uses a fractional of the code footprint compared to others by consequently following WordPress Block Editor best practices and reusing WordPress Core functions. Thanks to this approach, we didn’t have to start from scratch, and we can still provide all the essential features — and even more — without all the bloat!
| Calendas | Similar Plugins on the market | |
| File size* | 140 KB | 6 MB – 18 MB |
| Block-ready | Yes | Yes |
| Multiple calendar views | Yes | Yes |
| Fully compatible with the Query loop block | Yes | No |
| ⭐️ Featured Events | Yes | Yes |
| Add Google Maps to Venues | Yes | Yes |
| Address-Geocoding | Yes | No |
| Multilingual-ready in the free version | Yes | No |
| Seamless integration in WordPress with easy configuration and customization | Yes | No |
| jQuery dependency | No | Yes |
| Recurring events | Yes (PRO) | Yes (PRO) |
| RSVP and Ticket sales | Yes (PRO) – powered by WooCommerce | Yes (PRO) |
* The file sizes were compared by downloading the ZIP versions of the basic plugins from the WordPress Plugin Directory (Q1/2026).
What you’ll get
- Self-hosted, Privacy-friendly, Fully managed and controlled by you on your own website
- Great look and feel out-of-the-box
- Fully customizable Calendar block with several views**
- WordPress Core technology
- Query Loop block integration
- Upcoming Events: Block and WP-Dashboard widget
- Light-weight codebase that speeds up loading time and saves valuable server resources
- Responsive layout
- Multilingual-ready
- Venues
- Organizers
- Automatic geocoding of address fields powered by openstreetmap.org
- Embedded Google Maps
** The basis of the calendar frontend is provided by the schedule-x Javascript library (MIT).
Setup
If you are familiar with the Block Editor, setting up the Plugin and publishing your first Event should be a piece of cake.
You can also create Organizer and Venue posts and link them to Events.
Multilingual websites benefit from compatibility with Polylang or WPML – even in the free version.
We have also included a configurable Upcoming Events block. And if you’re after a simple, no-frills option, all you need to do is add Core’s Query Loop block and select the ‘Events’ post type. Easy.
We’ve developed two versions of Calendas:
Free
- Install it from the WordPress Plugin Directory
- Basic functionality to get you started
- Search
- Organizers
- Venues
- Google Maps
- Multilingual-ready
- Basic Support
PRO Add-on
- Purchase a license for a one-time fee
- Recurring Events
- RSVP and Ticket Sales
- Custom Block Templates
- Import, Export and Migrate data
- Priority Support
PRO
The PRO add-on is a WordPress plugin that can be purchased from our website at a fair one-time fee. Please note that you need to install and set up the free plugin in advance.
It comes with useful features like Recurring Events. You can also collect RSVP registrations or Sell tickets – which is powered by WooCommerce.
In addition, a user-friendly Importer and Exporter with a spreadsheet interface has been implemented – as a bonus it even let’s you migrate existing The Events Calendar events.
Furthermore you can control the Single-events view by uploading custom block templates in your theme.
If you enable the RSVP feature and want to sell event tickets, all registrations can be managed and exported via a dedicated admin page.
As a PRO user you will enjoy faster response times from the Support team.
A demo says more than 1000 words
Here, you can see a full breakdown of the calendar with all the features available:
https://them.es/plugins/calendas
If you want to play around a bit and see the backend, access our Playground here:
Don’t hesitate, give Calendas a try and share your feedback
It will take you just a couple of minutes to get up and running. We know, you’re going to love how straightforward the setup process is and how quickly your events load. The calendar interface is awesome too.
Please note that, despite thorough testing of the plugin, as with any new product, there may be bugs and glitches that we are not yet aware of. This is where you come in. We are grateful for your help in identifying and reporting potential bugs.
That said, our main focus in the upcoming product releases will be resolving any outstanding issues. Of course we are also open to all kinds of new feature requests, but please understand that these may be shifted to a major release at a later date.
You can either submit a new request through this support forum – particularly if you are a PRO user with an active license – or, if it affects the free version, via the WordPress forum or via the GitHub repository, where you can also contribute with code changes.
Thank you in advance for your questions and feedback. We are always happy to help!
Thanks for reporting this issue, Peter. As confirmed via email, a v2.0.1 bugfix release has been published in the morning.…