Multiple Calendars

August 30, 2007 @ 2:07 am · Filed under Calendar for WordPress

For those that use my Calendar for WordPress you may be interested to know about a modification by “Ben in Campus” that has been written for it that enables several calendars to be made visible and have events added to them but using only one install of my plugin on one install of WordPress. It’s an innovative idea and one that a couple of people who have e-mailed me in the past asking for such a feature will most certainly find useful.

The same database table is used as previously but a column has been added allowing the storage to denote which calendar a particular event has input. Ben has also fixed a couple of bugs which have been on my to-do list for a little while, so they will be incorporated along with a credit to Ben in the next release, which is actually coming really rather soon so keep an eye out here and on wordpress.org

   

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  1. Rich Said,

    August 30, 2007 @ 4:11 pm

    I am trying to install the revised calendar from Ben, but unfortunately I have a very basic ISP package - no access to the database tables.

    I’d like to speak in favor ofthe multiple calendars. I primarily am interested in using the plugin for our family website. Calendars would be use for meal planning, soccer schedules, personal schedules, and so on. It would be nice to have a master calendar that has the potential to sum up all sub calendars - or to have a master calendar that can be sorted by event type (soccer games, refereeing, meals, etc.)

    I appreciate what you have provided.

    Thanks,
    Rich

  2. Kieran Said,

    August 30, 2007 @ 6:09 pm

    I’m afraid I can’t help with installing Ben’s version or getting it working.

    I have noted your thoughts on multiple Calendars, but it is unlikely this will make it into the official version. Lots of tasty features are planned and will be released soon.

    As a compromise I might document the exact process of altering my release to work like Ben’s or provide some kind of patch.

    As a rule though demand for multiple Calendars is low as people usually like to see all events in one place so they can avoid conflicts. Categories of events (with colours) are coming in the next version, so should helps you group your events by type much better without needing actualy multiple calendar displays.

    Hope this helps :)

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