A decent Event Calendar (not google calendar integration)

socialscienceireland · Member · Aug 7, 2012 at 12:16 pm
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Could we please have a proper Event Calendar/Scheduler for WordPress.com? Google Calendar is ugly, clumsy and does not display properly on mobile devices, taking an age to load and even then being practically illegible. There are a number available on WordPress.org which appear to do the job well, such as this one:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/event-calendar-scheduler/installation/

It would need to have day, week and month to view, in both calendar and list format.

Thanks for any help you can give!

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timethief · Member · Aug 8, 2012 at 4:07 pm
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Hi there,
re: events calendar
See here for eventbrite > https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/setting-up-cc-payment-on-wordpresscom?replies=3#post-744600 Does this help you?
socialscienceireland · Member · Aug 8, 2012 at 6:31 pm
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Hi, thanks for the reply but no, event brute is not useful to me. A main part of my blog is listing events, conferences etc. I want a calendar/schedule/listing that works like google calendar but which is (a lot) more user friendly, mobile compatible and attractive. There is no e-commerce element needed, and it will make up my static front page. Thanks for the suggestion though.
storliennytt · Member · Sep 6, 2012 at 4:26 pm
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Hi WP.
I can see there are a lot of requests for a WP integrated event calendar. This is something I and lot of WP administrators would benefit from, so I have a suggestion on how to implement this functionality in an easy way:

Why not introduce a new field in Page Attributes called: Publish event on [event date]. Then all the postings with this attribute set could be cross published the Calendar widget both on [published date] and [event date].

If the ‘Create Calender’ widget also gets 2 check boxes: Show only pages when [Published] and/or [Date of Event], this would become a tremendous improvement of WP.

Thanks.
austinfreeevents · Member · Sep 19, 2012 at 9:22 pm
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Please develop a calendar – the only reason I did a website instead of a blog is because of this, and the website is proving to be a bit too much for me ( plus it costs $$) My site is basically an events calendar – I’d sell my soul for a decent WP.com event calendar so I could ditch the website
reviveleeds · Member · Sep 24, 2012 at 8:39 am
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I couldn’t agree more! This seems like a basic and essential component.
gardenshows · Member · Sep 25, 2012 at 2:36 pm
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Yes! Please
alexcityfamilies · Member · Sep 25, 2012 at 5:00 pm
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Yes, this is exactly what I’m looking for too. An event calendar to publish day, week, month events and that could also be viewed in list format. This is a big component of my website that I’m having trouble finding a good solution for.
curehd · Member · Sep 26, 2012 at 4:07 am
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All the charities using WordPress will thank you as well.
alexcityfamilies · Member · Sep 26, 2012 at 8:43 pm
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Does anyone know how this calendar works? I think it has the things we’re looking for, but I can’t figure out how they created it.
http://www.bcsfamilies.com/calendar/?type=month&cal=events
austinfreeevents · Member · Sep 26, 2012 at 9:19 pm
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I just wrote them and asked them about it.
austinfreeevents · Member · Sep 27, 2012 at 12:29 pm
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I also found http://www.localendar.com , it says you can use it with Blogger so I assume you could use it with WordPress as well. It does have plugin for the website version of WP
alexcityfamilies · Member · Sep 28, 2012 at 11:36 am
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I just figured out the website I linked to (bcsfamilies.com/calendar) is a WordPress.org site, and they probably used the events calendar available on wordpress.org. We can’t use it on wordpress.com. Boo!
thegeekanthropologist · Member · Oct 1, 2012 at 7:48 pm
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Yes, I want to be able to disply upcoming posts so people know what to expect in coming weeks and months. I plan way ahead when I write so that I have time to research and so my posts follow each other more logically. I would like to be able to show that with a calendar.

http://thegeekanthropologist.com/
jessicaomama · Member · Oct 18, 2012 at 3:54 am
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Please, please, please develop a user-friendly calendar widget that matches the themes. I don’t even care if the calendar is dynamic. I just want it to look good on the site. If that means I need to edit on the page, that’s fine by me. It seems like this is something that could be included in the customization upgrade that I purchased.

Thanks for all the other cool stuff you bring to the yard!
playfi123 · Member · Oct 25, 2012 at 2:19 am
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All the charities using WordPress will thank you as well.
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timethief · Member · Oct 25, 2012 at 2:21 am
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MALWARE WARNING!
Do not click the WordPress guide link!
storliennytt · Member · Oct 26, 2012 at 11:16 am
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Hi WP administrators.

While we are waiting for WordPress.com to “develop an event calendar” please take a look at the WP theme Soundcheck which includes an ‘Upcomming Gigs’
(see theme.wordpress.com/themes/soundcheck/).

Is this something you can benefit from?
Have anyone any experience about / how this theme deal with/organize events?
I am considering using this…

Regarding all discussions about widgets, plugins and 3.party SW: you can not include this in your wordpress.com -blog. You have to host your own wordpress site (e.g. http://www.godaddy.com/hosting/wordpress-hosting) to benefit from custom plugins.

BR Morten
rangermcfadden · Member · Nov 25, 2012 at 5:30 pm
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This feature would be much appreciated.

Time.ly looks like a good one.
cyanofkkt · Member · Nov 28, 2012 at 1:24 pm
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Dear WordPress.com,

please, calendar or event listing feature is more than needed.

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