About this plugin
FeastBell keeps the feasts and events of your church, parish, village or community in one place and shows the next one on your site. Movable feasts are counted from Easter, Orthodox or Western, so their dates change every year by themselves.
- Monthly calendar in wp-admin, with the whole year listed below it
- Fixed feasts and events (same date every year, one or more days), movable feasts (days before or after Easter) and whole-month events
- Orthodox Easter and Western (Catholic and Protestant) Easter: choose for every movable feast which Easter it is counted from
- Ready-made feasts to tick and add: the Orthodox feasts celebrated in Cyprus, and the Western movable feasts (Ash Wednesday, Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Easter, Ascension, Pentecost, Corpus Christi and more)
- “All” and “Major” views: major feasts are the great feasts of the Lord and of the Virgin Mary, and the religious public holidays
- Turn any feast on or off. A feast that is off stays in the list but does not show on the site
- Change the date of a feast for one year only, or skip it for one year. Other years keep the normal rule
- Greek, English and Russian name for every feast, for multilingual sites
- Admin screens in Greek, English or Russian, switched from the top of the page
- A month calendar for the site, with previous / next month, as a shortcode or an Elementor widget
- Appearance settings: colours, font and corners of the calendar, with a live preview
Shortcodes
- [fcal_next_feast] the next feast, or the one happening now. Options: link="", lang="el", lang="en" or lang="ru", only="major", class=""
- [fcal_feast_list count="7"] the coming feasts as a list. Options: count, lang, only="major", class
- [fcal_feast_calendar] the month calendar. Options: month="2026-12", only="major", lang, nav="no", list="no", easter="yes" (Orthodox Easter), easter="western", easter="both" or easter="no", class, and for one calendar only color_fixed, color_easter, color_month, color_accent, color_text, color_bg, color_head, color_border, font, radius
On Elementor sites there is also a “FeastBell” widget with colour and typography controls.
The page language comes from Polylang or WPML when they are active, otherwise from the site language.
For developers
- fcal_capability who may manage feasts (default edit_pages )
- fcal_front_lang the language of the site texts
- fcal_front_text the site texts (“Next feast”, “Happening now”, “All feasts”)
- fcal_library the list of ready-made feasts offered for adding
- fcal_front_css return false to drop the default site styles
- fcal_docs_urls the Documentation links