Events Widgetfor Publii
An independent Publii plugin · v1.4.1
A reading. A reunion. A conversation that goes somewhere unexpected. Give every event a place on your site, without rewriting the page.
Local event editor. Your theme’s style. Ready for your newsletter.
Saturday, February 20, 2027, 7 pm – 8:30 pm (GMT)
Dr. Hawthorne explores quantum telepathic communication, the loquentes interface, and what happens when a starship finally answers back. Lecture followed by questions. Please leave your mind open.
A little less page editing
Enter each event once in Publii. The plugin handles the dates, the layout, and the part where yesterday’s event becomes a smaller line below.
Upcoming events appear earliest first. Finished events move to a compact archive. Multiple dates, daily hours, and local time zones are all supported.
A name, date, time, description, and venue. Addresses open Google Maps; optional website links give visitors somewhere to learn more. No event image required.
Fonts and colors come from your theme. The plugin includes responsive layout CSS, labeled size variables, and a place to save your own overrides.
Copy upcoming events as plain HTML with structural inline styles. Paste into EmailOctopus or your email editor. Your email template supplies the fonts and colors.
Take a look around
Hawthorne has a lecture to give. Merion has a reunion to explain. A fictional programme from The Grove of Tau Ceti shows what the plugin does with both.
All demo events, venues, street addresses, and Dr. Hawthorne’s book title are invented. This is a demonstration, not a real event listing.
Up and running
Requires Publii 0.47.7 or later. Tested with Publii 0.47.7 on macOS. JavaScript and CSS are bundled locally.
In Publii, open Tools & Plugins → Plugins → Install plugin. Select the ZIP and enable Events Widget for your site.
Open Tools & Plugins → Events Widget. Fill in the details, choose the event’s local time zone, and save.
Put this shortcode in its own paragraph on your Events page:
[events]Check your page with Preview your changes. Publii’s normal Sync publishes the widget, JSON, and newsletter HTML with your site.
Good to know
In your Publii project’s local events.json file. Publii exports it with your site when you Preview or Sync. The plugin has no separate service or public editor. Use Download JSON backup before upgrades or removal.
Yes. Open Display settings → Widget CSS to view the bundled stylesheet and save per-site overrides. Sizes and spacing are controlled by labeled variables. Fonts and colors inherit from the page’s theme. Newsletter HTML uses a separate, simple layout.
Yes. Both have checkboxes in Display settings. Hiding a time zone label does not change the event’s stored zone or the time at which it becomes past.
No. Events Widget is independently developed and maintained by Tobby Hagler. It is prepared for marketplace review; it has not been endorsed or accepted by Publii.
Open a GitHub issue with your Publii version, operating system, and steps to reproduce the problem. Remove private information from examples. Custom theme work is outside the plugin’s standard scope.
You can use, modify, and redistribute the plugin, including commercially, while retaining its copyright and license notice. See the complete license. No license key or account is required.