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Cookie consent for The Events Calendar
the map is on by default
The Events Calendar sets no cookie and stores nothing in the browser on visitor pages. Its one outside call is the Google map, shown by default on every event with an address. That map loads with the page.
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The Events Calendar
WordPress plugin
- Tested version
- 6.18.3.1
- How
- Tested automatically around each Cookie Rocks version
- Last test
- 7 November 2026
- Latest version
- 6.18.3.1 tested
- Active installs
- 600,000+
What The Events Calendar adds to your visitors’ browser
No trackers In our test of The Events Calendar 6.18.3.1 on 7 November 2026, the plugin itself added no tracker and no cookie. What you place in your pages with it, such as a video or a map, still counts.
What matters for consent with The Events Calendar
Maps on by default
Maps are on and every new event shows one. The map comes from Google Maps and loads when the event page opens. Cookie Rocks holds known trackers until consent.
Two kinds of map
With the plugin’s built-in key, the map is an iframe in the page. With your own key, a Google Maps script draws it. Both reach Google.
Calendar links wait
Links to add an event to a calendar load nothing until the visitor clicks.
Its privacy text
The privacy policy text it suggests says no data leaves your site by default. With maps on, that is not the case: adjust it.
What our tests found on The Events Calendar
Set before the choice · The Events CalendarThe Events Calendar shows a Google map on events with an address by default
setting “Enable Maps” · by default: on
With the built-in key the map is a Google iframe; with the site's own key, Google's map script loads. The plugin sets no cookie or storage. Its suggested policy text says no data leaves the site.
Read in its code, 16 October 2026, The Events Calendar 6.18.2.
Full detail
The Events Calendar shows a Google map on events with an address by default (maps enabled, Show Google Map ticked for new events). With the key built into the plugin, the map is an iframe to www.google.com/maps/embed/v1/place in the HTML; with the site's own key, it loads maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js and embedded-map.js draws the map on page load. The plugin sets no cookie and uses no browser storage on visitor pages, and its calendar export links load nothing until clicked. Its suggested privacy policy text says no data leaves the site by default.
How we test it
Around each version, with its latest release
Around each Cookie Rocks version, a fresh WordPress installs its latest version from WordPress.org next to Cookie Rocks and runs the same checks. A new version joins the next run on its own.
- The Events Calendar 6.18.3.1, tested on 7 November 2026.
- The banner shows, the trackers of the test page wait for consent and load after it, and Cookie Rocks raises no PHP error.
- Settings of the test: Default settings after activation.
- Last run: The Events Calendar 6.18.3.1 on 7 November 2026, with WordPress 7.1.3.
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Questions
Can I show events without a map?
Yes. Turn maps off in the settings, or untick Show Google Map on each event. An address in text needs no consent.
What happens after the 30-day trial?
The banner, your visitors’ choices and your proofs of consent keep working. Without a key, most settings lock, updates and support stop. Take a key at any time and everything opens again.
For The Events Calendar users
Events for everyone, maps after a yes.
the map is the only guest
Every feature of the complete plugin for 30 days, no card. The Events Calendar keeps working as it does today.
- During the trial: everything, including the full settings and the scans
- After 30 days without a key: the banner, your visitors’ choices and your proofs of consent keep working
- What waits for a key: most settings, updates and support
Get your trial key
Your e-mail and your site. Your key arrives as soon as you confirm your e-mail.