ical feed button for the tech noobs

you can try to use placeholder #_EVENTGCALLINK under Events > Settings > Formatting > Events

https://wp-events-plugin.com/documentation/placeholders/

Yes, I saw that, but from what I understand all that does is give them the link of the calendar, not a link to subscribe to it. They have to then take that link and copy it into their own calendar service – which means I need to give instructions on how to do this for every popular calendar service.
I would much rather an automated button that does this for the client. You click “subscribe with gcal” and it goes to gcal and asks if you want to add this calendar. Done. I want the people who use technology, but really have no idea how to customize it, to be able to add this calendar to theirs without any effort.

Just do this:

<a href="#_EVENTGCALLINK">#_EVENTGCALLINK</a>

While that is on the right path, I am not looking for someone to enter in every event. I want them to be able to subscribe to the WHOLE CALENDAR.

After a lot of searching elsewhere, I found this:
<a href="https://www.google.com/calendar/render?cid=https://location-of-calendar-file" target="_blank">Click here to add our calendar to your Google Calendar.</a>

then I went and tried to find the rss feed address by adding [events_rss_url] within the events page and viewing it and added it to my widget sidebar.

I am still playing with it, with a few errors on what I think is google’s side, but I will let you know when I find the answer.

EDIT:
So i have it “working” It goes to google, asks if I want to add it to my calendars, does so, then says “The address that you provided did not contain a calendar in a valid iCal or GData format”

I used the “mysite.com/events/feed” that I found for the RSS feed. I also tried “mysite.com?ical=1” and “mysite.com/events.ics” just to be sure.

I changed my rss feed of events in the settings section to all, and the error went away, but so far no events have shown up in my calendar.

no events have showed up on my site, though I have waited for it to refresh just in case ( I know how long google takes to grab external calendars sometimes). Is there a way to ensure I am using the right feed for the whole calendar, between the “mysite.com/events/feed”; “mysite.com?ical=1” and “mysite.com/events.ics”?

The correct URL is /events/feed/

If you go to that URL do you see anything?

WOOT!!!! thank you caimin!! that did the trick.

Click here to add our calendar to your Google Calendar.

Takes you to your logged in google calendar and asks if you want to subscribe, then adds all of the events to your calendar. ??

Hello, thanks for starting this topic. Whats the final code to embed to my page for people to subscribe to my calendar? I am having difficulties with it. Please help.