I’ve spent [too much] time monkeying around with event calendars for wordpress, and I finally found a solution that suits us at the Caroline Collective. The ratio of total-frustration to current-satisfaction is such that I want to share what I found.
I wanted, most of all, for an Event to be a Post. Lots of event calendars want you to manage events as a separate content type, but we already write a post about each event and the redundancy bothered me.
I also wanted a calendar. Not a list of a events, like so many events plugins (especially the ics parsers, pity), but a nice square calendar.
I got everything I want using the Events Category plugin and Ajax Calendar.
The Events Category plug-in lets you specify an event category, and then you can substitute the publish date for the actual event date for all posts in that category. They’ll publish immediately — but dated in the future.
Then you can use a regular published-date post calendar [I'm using Ajax Calendar] for your events calendar.
Hope this saves someone my frustration!
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Thanks for this post. I have a question: Does the Ajax calendar post all upcoming events that are in the Events Category plugin? Are you making multiple entries?
Thank you in advance.
Looking at the website for Caroline Collective today (7/23/2009), it looks like the calendar is no longer WordPress based but is based on something related to Google Calendar.
Did some problem pop up with the Events Category/Ajax Calendar solution? What exactly replaced it?
We just were running redundant calendars — one based on blog posts (w/ Events Category) and one through Google Calendar. We opted to embed the Google one because not all calendar items were represented by blog posts.
We also found a weird tic with the Events Category plugin — when it was activated, the “Add Media” buttons disappeared on the Edit Post panel. I uploaded & inserted pictures by hand, so it wasn’t a problem for me, but other authors missed them.
I’ve been playing with the easyphp calendar, at first as a stand alone and then embeded in the site.
You can have multiple categories and multiple authors as well as the ability to insert images