Automaize Event Calendar

Automaize Event Calendar lets you create and manage events directly in the WordPress admin and display them anywhere on your site using a simple shortcode.

Key features:

• Responsive tile grid (1–4 columns, auto-adjusts on mobile)
• Events sorted chronologically — next event first
• Past events hidden automatically
• Recurring events: weekly, monthly by date, monthly by weekday (e.g. first Monday), or individual custom dates
• Configurable visibility window (how many days into the future) and maximum event count
• Per-event button text, subtitle, and time display
• Optional WooCommerce product link per event for ticket sales or booking
• REST API for a companion mobile app (public event browsing, plus an API-key-protected staff surface to manage events)
• Theme-overridable templates
• Fully translatable (ready for translation via GlotPress on WordPress.org)

Shortcode usage:

[amzec_events]

Optional attributes:

• count – maximum number of events to show (default: 12)
• future_days – show events up to N days in the future; 0 = unlimited (default: 0)
• columns – number of tile columns 1–4 (default: 3)
• category – comma-separated category slugs to filter

Example: [amzec_events count="6" columns="2" future_days="90"]

1. Upload the automaize-event-calendar folder to /wp-content/plugins/.
2. Activate the plugin via Plugins › Installed Plugins.
3. Go to Events › Einstellungen to configure defaults.
4. Create events under Events › Neu hinzufügen.
5. Add the shortcode [amzec_events] to any page or post.

How do I display events in a different number of columns?

Use the columns attribute: [amzec_events columns="2"]. On tablets the grid automatically reduces to 2 columns, and on mobile to 1 column.

Can I show only a specific category?

Yes: [amzec_events category="workshop,seminar"]

How does WooCommerce integration work?

When editing an event, enter the ID of an existing WooCommerce product in the sidebar. An add-to-cart button will appear on the single event page.

Can themes override the templates?

Yes. Copy templates/partials/event-tile.php to amzec-event-tile.php in your theme root to override the tile, or templates/single-amzec_event.php to single-amzec_event.php in your theme root to override the single event page.

Will deleting the plugin remove my events?

Yes — uninstalling (deleting) the plugin removes all event posts, taxonomy terms, and plugin settings. Deactivating alone does not remove any data.

1.6.1

• Tweak: the event tile image ([amzec_events] grid) is now a 1:1 square instead of 16:9 – a bigger, more prominent image at typical tile widths.

1.6.0

• New: “Tischbuchung an diesem Tag freischalten” (see AMZEC_Table_Booker_Integration) is now readable and writable through the REST API (tablebooker_enabled on the public/staff event responses and POST/PUT /staff/events), so the mobile app can expose it directly in the event form instead of requiring a separate trip to wp-admin.

1.5.1

• Fix: the single event page no longer relies on get_header()/get_footer() (i.e. on whatever theme/page builder happens to be active) – it’s now fully self-contained, with its own header/footer matching the Kerstins static site’s own branding/nav/footer directly (same styles.css, same logo). Diagnosed after a page builder (Breakdance) started silently swallowing ALL front-end WordPress output site-wide (confirmed via blank raw feeds/sitemap too, not just event pages) with no PHP error logged – deactivating it was the fix, so no more dependency on it for event pages either.
• Admin: the “Tischbuchung an diesem Tag freischalten” checkbox now shows a warning when an event’s own time falls outside the regular opening hours (or on an otherwise-closed day) and the box isn’t ticked – leaving it unchecked silently limits bookings to the normal hours instead of the event’s actual time, which was reported as confusing guests.

1.5.0

• New: GET /amzec/v1/today-menu – resolves what a guest should see as “today’s menu”: today’s event’s menu (if one has a menu PDF), otherwise the standard menu. The standard menu is simple structured data (title/intro/sections/items/footer, not a PDF), stored via the new POST /amzec/v1/staff/standard-menu and maintained in parallel with the website’s à la carte page – meant for native, inline display in the app rather than a PDF viewer.

1.4.0

• New: in-app ticket purchase for paid events. POST /amzec/v1/events/{id}/ticket-order creates a pending WooCommerce order (guest, for the event’s linked product) and returns WooCommerce’s own guest checkout URL; GET /amzec/v1/events/{id}/ticket-order/{order_id}?key= reports payment/reservation status. Once WooCommerce marks the order paid, a matching table reservation is created automatically in the Restaurant Reservation plugin (if active). The public /events//events/{id} responses now include a ticket object (price, currency, stock) when an event has a linked product. The admin “Ticket-Produkt” field is now a real product dropdown instead of a raw numeric ID.

1.3.1

• Event editing now uses the classic (non-block) editor instead of Gutenberg. Event descriptions are always plain text anyway (both from wp-admin and the app), so this buys nothing functionally but meaningfully lowers peak memory on the event edit screen – helpful on hosts with a tight PHP memory_limit.

1.3.0

• New: menu PDF per event. Upload a PDF in the “Speisekarte (PDF)” box on the event edit screen (or via POST/DELETE /staff/events/{id}/menu from the app); guests get a “Speisekarte ansehen” button on the event page that opens it in an overlay instead of navigating away. The public /events and /events/{id} responses now include menu_pdf_url.

1.2.0

• Added GET /staff/media: a paginated listing of existing image attachments in the WordPress media library, so the app can offer “choose an existing image” alongside “upload a new one” when setting an event’s featured image. POST /staff/events/{id}/image now also accepts a media_id of an existing attachment as an alternative to a file upload.

1.1.0

• New: REST API for the Kerstins mobile companion app (public event browsing plus an API-key-protected staff surface to create, edit, delete events and upload a featured image — including full recurrence support)

1.0.5

• New: Optional integration with Automaize Restaurant Table Booker — freischaltbare Tischbuchung an einzelnen Event-Tagen, auch außerhalb der regulären Öffnungszeiten oder während Betriebsferien

1.0.4

• Fix: Event tiles now align vertically across columns (CSS subgrid)
• Fix: “Mehr erfahren” button now displays correctly on Breakdance pages

1.0.3

• Fix: Column layout now works correctly on Breakdance pages (inline style beats page-builder CSS)

1.0.2

• New: Per-event display limit for recurring events (“Max. Anzeigen im Kalender”)
• Fix: CSS grid now loads correctly on Breakdance-built pages

1.0.1

• Fix: German admin labels (meta box and settings page title)

1.0.0

• Initial release