Comments on: Polling WordPress Users on Calendar Functionality

By: shawn

shawn — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 08:46:53 +0000

With post_types included in 2.9 and the UI coming in 3.0, it would make the most sense to me to utilize post_types for calendar input. You could easily create your own 'calendar' post_type where it has it's own admin area, so there is no confusion between calendar events administration and posts admin.

I think with post_types and the needed UI that we are going to see a lot of really cool new addons for wp in the near future.

By: shawn

shawn — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:46:53 +0000

I think with post_types and the needed UI that we are going to see a lot of really cool new addons for wp in the near future.

By: keighl

keighl — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:08:18 +0000

When I get this thing done … I hope it helps!

By: keighl

keighl — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:07:19 +0000

Thanks for the input, Dan ...

I think the key for creating a very malleable calendar function is to tie it as close to the post structure as possible. That way the events can be manipulated with other plugins / wordpress core.

I'm building the calendar to accept all the event data from a JSON object anyway, so I could just make a function available for when you wanted the raw array.

By: ibooktravel

ibooktravel — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:08:03 +0000

Hi Keighl
I will be setting up a link to monitor your progress on this plugin. I have just given up on Event Calendar 3, which is no longer working or supported. I have a startup coach tour website with departure dates for each post (tour). at ibooktravel.com.au… I'd love to be able to incorporate a widget calendar with events on each date, that link to a post. Also somehow I'd like to show the end date, so that follow on tours can be booked.

By: Daniel Wiener

Daniel Wiener — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:49:22 +0000

On the sites I create there is usually a page that lists upcoming events with date, time, location, a link to buy tickets, and possibly a description. As the time passes for an event it disappears from this list. Often there is another page that archives past events. For example an artist has a 3 upcoming group shows and 1 one person show. After they occur the shows are added to the artist's resume. Possibly the upcoming event closest in time would be listed on the front page of the site as a news item. I would like it to be easy for a client to enter the information for an event once and then have it show up in various contexts. Perhaps this is too specific but it is something that has been asked for by clients over and over again and is not that easy to implement.

I have used booktour.com feeds and google calendar feeds to display calendars, but it is easier for non-techy clients to use only one administration area. The get confused with too many instructions and logins.

It also would be nice if there were an option to access calendar entries with no markup so that I can create different formats on different pages - possibly an xml or json feed. Again this may a need not shared by others, but I find, as a rule plugins produce too much and too complex markup.

Anyway. I look forward to this plugin. It is much need and anticipated.