PJ Event Timeline

By the date itself. When the page loads, the timeline sorts each date into Current & Upcoming or Past in the visitor's browser — so a date moves on its own at midnight, even on sites with page caching, and you never have to re-file anything. The admin shows the same split: a Status column, Upcoming / Past views and a filter.

No. The plugin loads one stylesheet and one script, nothing from outside servers (unless you choose to add a web font), and typography comes from your theme. When you save a date it also clears the page cache for you if you use WP Fastest Cache, W3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache or WP Rocket.

None. Searching and filtering happen in the browser; nothing is stored or sent anywhere. The Pro Add to calendar links are built in the browser too, and the Pro subscribe feed is just your public dates as a calendar file — nobody's subscription is recorded. No tracking, no cookies, no account.

Yes. Drop the [pjcal] shortcode into any page or any builder that accepts shortcodes — Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder, Cornerstone, WPBakery and the rest. The layout adapts to whatever width it's given, and the light or dark scheme sits comfortably on either kind of site.

Yes. [pjcal show="upcoming"] shows just the upcoming list (or show="past" for an archive page). category="tour" limits a timeline to one category, and category="tour,studio" shows both together. For separate timelines, use one shortcode per category. For a long upcoming list, now_limit="5" shows five dates and puts the rest behind a “Show more” button.

Yes. Under Settings → PJ Event Timeline you set the count noun (singular and plural), both stat labels, the section titles and the empty-state text. Any of them can also be overridden per page as a shortcode attribute — [pjcal eyebrow="On tour" now_title="Next up" past_title="Where we've been"].

Yes, in the free plugin. Under Settings → PJ Event Timeline pick one of the six accents or any color, set your own background, card and text colors, and name your heading and body fonts (with an optional web-font link if your theme doesn't load them already). For one timeline only, use accent="#0f6e8c".

Both. Choose one hero photo for every timeline under Settings, or use image="123" (a media ID or a URL) on a single page. The photo that sticks beside the list as the visitor scrolls; fullbleed="yes" lets the timeline break out of a narrow content column. If your theme has a fixed header, one line of CSS — .pjcal{--pjcal-top:90px} — keeps the sticky photo clear of it.

Enter a venue once — name, city, state, address, website — and pick it from a list for every date after that; a date's city and state fall back to the venue's automatically, and a venue typed in while adding a date is saved with that date's city and state. On the timeline the venue name links to its website, and a venue with a street address gets a small map pin that opens Google Maps in a new tab — no map embed, no API key. Dates are all-day by default; untick the box to add a start and end time, shown in your site's time format.

A month view ([pjcal_month]) with previous / next navigation; a subscribe feed so visitors can add your dates to their own calendar app; Google event listings for your upcoming dates; an Add to calendar link (Google and .ics, with the venue's address) under every upcoming date; CSV import and export; the compact [pjcal_next] list for sidebars and footers; automatic updates in your dashboard; and priority support.

The timeline itself — the upcoming/past split, venues, times, search, filters, stats, both schemes, any accent color, your own colors and fonts, and the hero photo — is fully included in the free version.

Yes. Pro is an add-on: install the free plugin from WordPress.org first, then install Pro and enter your license key under Settings → PJ Event Timeline → Pro.

No account, on your site or anywhere else. A Subscribe button on the timeline offers Apple Calendar / Outlook (one click), Google Calendar, or a link to copy. Their calendar app then checks your dates on its own schedule — new dates, changes and cancellations show up automatically. Apple and Outlook check every hour or so; Google can take up to a day. A timeline limited to a category subscribes to just that category.

Pro adds Google's event format (structured data) to every page that shows the timeline — date, time, venue and address, ticket link, performer — so Google can list your upcoming dates in its event results. Private events and projects are never included. Google decides when and whether to show them; you can check a page with Google's Rich Results Test.

With Pro, yes: [pjcal_month] shows a classic month grid with previous / next buttons. Click a date for its time, venue and ticket link. On phones and in narrow columns it switches to that month as a list, and long runs (a three-month residency, say) sit in a strip above the grid instead of filling every day.

With Pro, yes. Event Timeline → Import / Export takes a CSV with columns for title, event, start and end dates, times, venue, venue address, venue website, city, state, category, link and a few flags. Common header names like Venue, Start Date or Performances are recognised; categories and venues are created if they don't exist yet (with their address and website when the file has them), and rows that are already on your timeline are skipped. Export works the other way, so a spreadsheet stays a reliable backup.

One license covers one website, with a single one-time payment — no subscription. Activate it on the settings page; if you move to a new domain, click Deactivate on the old site and activate on the new one. Your key is shown on the order confirmation and in your receipt email.

Licenses don't expire. If a license is ever deactivated, the Pro extras step aside: the month view and the compact list show the standard timeline instead, the Subscribe and Add-to-calendar buttons are hidden — and the subscribe feed keeps working, so nobody's calendar breaks. Your colors and fonts are free settings, so they stay exactly as they are.

No. Everything is a setting or a shortcode attribute, and the Shortcodes tab under Settings → PJ Event Timeline lists every attribute with a copy-and-paste example. If you can add a shortcode to a page, you can add the timeline.

Pro comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee — email support and we'll refund it, no questions asked. The free plugin is, well, free.