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May 2, 2017, Filed Under: Did You Know, Plugin Documentation

How to use Simple Calendar Plugin

The Simple Calendar Plugin is an easy way to add Google Calendar events to your WordPress site. This plugin is available to your site by default.

There are a few steps you must follow before embedding your Google Calendar onto your site page.

Create a Google API Key
- Follow these instructions to create your API key.
  - Please note the discrepancy in Project creation after clicking on the “Google API” image
- After you have created your key, copy it to your clipboard.
Activate Simple Calendar from your plugin dashboard.
- Login to your site. From the Dashboard, click Plugins and activate Simple Calendar.
Enter the Google API Key from your clipboard into the activated plugin:
- Calendar > Settings

Set your Google Calendar to public
- https://docs.simplecalendar.io/make-google-calendar-public/
Find and copy the ID for the Google Calendar you would like embedded on your UBS site
- https://docs.simplecalendar.io/find-google-calendar-id/
Create and display a calendar in your site
- https://docs.simplecalendar.io/creating-new-calendar/

For the full listing of help topics for the Google Calendar plugin, please go to – https://simplecalendar.io/

April 27, 2017, Filed Under: News

UBS Release Notes 4/27/17

Update UBS to WordPress 4.7.3

Update the Events Calendar to 4.4.5

Update WordPress Importer Plugin updated to 0.6.3

Update to internal tools (WP-CLI)

Addition of PHP extensions required by incoming plugins

April 25, 2017, Filed Under: News

The Events Calendar Plugin on UBS

Hello Blog Owners,

Last week, on April 17th, the UBS stewardship team announced the retirement of the Events Calendar Plugin. UBS stewards have secured the plugin against the reported vulnerability with help from the Information Security Office. As a result, The Events Calendar plugin will not be removed from the service on April 27th as originally stated. However, the plugin will be retired from the service on June 29th, 2017 instead. This decision was made based on ongoing incompatibilities with other critical plugins on the service.

The impact of this change is that sites using the plugin will lose access to their calendar(s) unless site owners find an alternative to displaying calendar information before June 29th.

Stewards have made available the Google Events Calendar plugin which offers similar functionality. Current users will be provided documentation on how to make this transition. Assistance will be made available on a best effort basis during Web Publishing office hours (every Tuesday in FAC 30, between 1:00PM – 2:30PM).

All sites which have The Events Calendar plugin already activated will remain active until June 29th. Do not deactivate the plugin until you are ready to transition away from it as it will become immediately unavailable.

Best,

UBS Stewards