Add real-time availability to your Churches website
Simple Calendar connects your Google Calendar with your WordPress church website. Hence, your services, ministry events, and community gatherings stay updated automatically and are always easy for your congregation to find.
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Your Google Calendar is already right. Put it on your site.
Your church already keeps the real schedule in Google Calendar. Your website keeps a copy of it, which is typed out by hand, usually by a volunteer, usually a few weeks behind. Simple Calendar removes the need to write this copy manually. It helps display your Google Calendar directly on your site, so whatever staff schedules on the calendar is what visitors see directly on your church site.
Automatically updates events
Add a service, move a Bible study, cancel for weather! Make the change where your staff already works. Your website pulls from the same calendar, so the page updates without anyone logging into WordPress.
Calendar for every ministry
Each ministry keeps its own Google Calendar schedule, whether it's the youth group, women's Bible study, or Sunday services. Display them separately on their own pages, or combine them into one church-wide view.
Answers visitors' queries
Most people check a church website before they check directions. Your service times, small groups, and upcoming events sit right there on the page. No PDF to download, no 'call the office for details.'
Reads properly on a phone
Your calendar stays responsive on every screen size or on every device, so it's easy to check anywhere between meetings, in the school pickup line, or from the car on a Sunday morning.
Let members book time
Right now, scheduling a counseling conversation means a phone call, a message through the office, and a wait. With the Book an Appointment addon, available slots appear on your site and members pick one themselves.
No dedicated IT volunteer
Connecting a calendar manually means about a dozen steps in Google's developer settings. The Google Calendar Pro addon replaces that and lets you display private church calendars without making them public.
Why churches choose Simple Calendar
Church schedules aren’t simple. You have recurring weekly services, seasonal events, special programs that change every year, and multiple ministry teams operating independently. Most calendar tools are built for businesses with a single schedule and a single team. Simple Calendar is designed for organizations where multiple calendars, multiple audiences, and a zero-budget technical team are all part of the job.
Get started with Simple Calendar in under 2 minutes
You don't need everything at once. Start with the free plugin, get your schedule live, and add the rest only when you need it.
Install the free plugin & go live
Download and install the free Simple Calendar plugin. Connect it to your public Google Calendar, add the shortcode to any page, and your schedule is live. This step is everything you need to get started. The rest is optional.
Connect private Google Calendars securely
If you want to display a private calendar your site without it appearing in Google search results, the Google Calendar Pro addon makes it straightforward while also removing the multi-step credentials creation process with secure one-click authentication.
Give visitors better ways to browse
The FullCalendar Extended addon adds more ways to view your schedule: a monthly grid, a weekly timetable, or a day-by-day layout. Useful once you're displaying enough events that a single view isn't enough.
Accept bookings directly from your site
The Book an Appointment addon turns your availability into bookable slots, so people pick a time themselves instead of trading calls, emails, and messages.
Get required addons, or save 10x more with our curated bundles.
Start with the free plugin and add features only when you need them, or save more with our bundled plans that combine Google Calendar sync, advanced calendar views, and appointment booking in one package.
Built for all types of churches
Simple Calendar is built for churches, ministries, and congregations of all kinds. Manage your services and events in Google Calendar, publish your schedule, and automatically sync updates to your website with ease.
Community churches
Share service times, event schedules, and ministry activities in one place so members always know what's happening.
Multi-ministry chucrhes
Display schedules for every ministry and program on your website, keeping members always informed on the go.
Pastoral counseling/ appointment-based ministry
Let members book counseling sessions and appointments with a live schedule synced two-way with Google Calendar.
Multi-campus churches
Show service times and events across every campus, keeping each congregation updated automatically.
Church plants & newer congregations
Publish service times and gatherings on your website, helping new visitors find and join with ease.
Online & hybrid churches
Share both in-person and livestream service schedules so members can join however they worship.
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Your questions, answered!
A WordPress calendar plugin helps display services, events, and ministry schedules directly on the website from your Google Calendar. Simple Calendar lets churches show upcoming services and events, and with the plugin’s extensive set of features, members can even add them straight to their own calendars or perform other actions as set by the event template tag usage.
Yes, the plugin automatically updates Google Calendar events on your WordPress site in real time. You only need to add services or events to your Google Calendar once, and the plugin syncs them to your site immediately, while handling the caching issue.
Yes. Members can easily set reminders by adding the event to their Google Calendar. They click the ‘Add to GCal‘ link to save the event and enable reminder notifications. Likewise, you can add other features to a specific event using the Simple Calendar’s event template tags.
Yes, you can easily display schedules for multiple ministries, campuses, or programs on your WordPress site using the Grouped Calendars feature in Simple Calendar.
Yes, you can start for free with the Simple Calendar core plugin, which displays events from a public Google Calendar. For a simpler one-click setup with private event syncing, the Google Calendar Pro add-on offers secure authentication and various other advanced customization features that you won’t get in a free plugin.
With the Book an Appointment addon, churches can display availability for counseling or one-on-one sessions online. It allows members to book from available slots only, preventing double bookings.
Yes, Simple Calendar supports adding a calendar on any specific page via shortcodes. You only need to add the shortcode to the WordPress content editor of the page where you want the calendar to appear.