Folders for Simple Calendar calendars
In Simple Calendar every calendar is a small setup: a Google Calendar or ICS feed, a grid or list view, and a shortcode on some page. A school, club or agency soon has dozens of them, many with almost the same name.
Plathix PRO adds private folders to the Calendars list. Group calendars by team, room or client, and open just the folder you need. The calendars, their shortcodes and the pages that show them stay as they are.
Forty calendars with almost the same name
Each Simple Calendar calendar is one setup: a feed, a view and a shortcode. Want the same feed as a grid on one page and as a list on another? That is two calendars. Clone one, and the copy gets “(Copy)” at the end of its name.
The list shows the source, the calendar type and the shortcode of each calendar. It does not show which team, room or client a calendar is for.
A calendar for each team, and one more to group them
Sites that use Simple Calendar rarely stop at one calendar. Each sport, team or member gets its own, and a grouped calendar sits on top.
A sports complex with a separate calendar for softball, one for golf and one for special events. Then a grouped calendar that combines them all.
One grouped calendar that pulls in twelve calendars.
A trust whose members are trusts too. Each member has its own events calendar, and the site should show them combined.
One calendar works. Then a second one is needed, and a grouped calendar to show both.
Folders keep those calendars apart in wp-admin, by team, place or client. What each grouped calendar shows does not change.
Folders that match how your calendars are used
By team or group
One folder per team, class or department, with its games, training and meetings.
By room or place
Halls, rooms, courts: find the calendar for one place without reading every name.
By client
If you keep calendars for several clients, give each client a folder.
Grouped calendars apart
Keep the Grouped Calendar setups in their own folder, away from the single feeds they combine.
Old feeds
A feed from last season or an old account goes to “Old feeds” instead of being deleted, with all its settings.
A folder tree for your calendars
A folder panel on All Calendars
The panel sits beside the Simple Calendar list of calendars. Click a folder and the list shows only its calendars.
A Folder column
Every row shows its folder; click it to open that folder.
Events you add in WordPress
Since version 4.3, Simple Calendar can also keep its own events in WordPress. They have a separate Events list, which can get its own folder tree.
A link for each folder
The address changes when you open a folder, so you can bookmark it or send it to a teammate.
Simple Calendar never sees your folders
| What you do | What changes | What stays as it is |
|---|---|---|
| Put a calendar in a folder | Its Plathix folder | The feed, the view settings and the shortcode |
| Move a folder of calendars | The folder tree in wp-admin | Every page that shows those calendars |
| File a calendar that a Grouped Calendar uses | Its Plathix folder | The Grouped Calendar: it still picks calendars by hand or by category |
| Trash a calendar, then restore it | Its Trash state | Its folder: it comes back to the same place |
| Turn Plathix PRO off | The list looks like plain WordPress | Your folders wait in the database and come back |
Folders have no URLs, never appear on your pages and are not calendar categories.
How we test Simple Calendar
We run each check on a live site with Plathix PRO and the current Simple Calendar version, on the real Calendars list.
Status Planned
Results go to Plathix Lab. Each row turns into a link once it has run.
| Check | What we verify | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Enable calendars | Turn on Calendars in Enabled Sections; the panel and the Folder column appear on the list. | Planned |
| Shortcodes unchanged | A filed calendar looks the same on the page that uses its shortcode. | Planned |
| Grouped calendars | A Grouped Calendar built from a category shows the same events after filing. | Planned |
| Clone | Check which folder a cloned calendar lands in. | Planned |
| Simple Calendar events | The separate Events list gets its own folder tree. | Planned |
| Trash and restore | A trashed calendar comes back to its folder. | Planned |
Simple Calendar folders FAQ
Do folders change my calendars or shortcodes?
Do Google Calendar events get folders?
Is a folder the same as a calendar category?
What about events I create in Simple Calendar?
Can visitors see the folders?
Is this in Plathix Free?
Related pages
Keep your calendars on their pages. Keep the list in folders.
Calendars in folders you choose. Feeds, views and shortcodes stay as they are.