Event Calendar Widget?

[protechig]

Hello Everyone,
I am developing a website for a non-profit organization that i'm involved with, and they want a plugin that they can edit their own events, and have a widget that will display an event calendar.

What is my best bet?

Thanks for your help
Zach

[Justin Twerdy]

I highly recommend this one:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/...vent-calendar/

Use it for just about any client site that needs this functionality (:

[Michael Atkins]

I think I tried all the events plugins and after weighing up pros & cons of each my preference is for event organiser http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/event-organiser/ the widget display works perfectly with Genesis and the level of customisation available by using provided shortcodes to display the events exacly as you want is the most flexible I've seen. It was necessary to make some genesis-specific templates for my site for the events pages, but if you're used to developing with Genesis, that's very straightforward.

You can see how I used the event listing widget of the plugin in the sidebar at http://o5b.co.uk

[ODG]

Hey Michael,

Can you elaborate on how you implemented Event Organiser? Specifically how you set up your genesis templates to? (event listing, event-single, etc) I'm having a hard time pulling the event listings on one page.

Thanks in advance!

Originally Posted by Michael Atkins

I think I tried all the events plugins and after weighing up pros & cons of each my preference is for event organiser http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/event-organiser/ the widget display works perfectly with Genesis and the level of customisation available by using provided shortcodes to display the events exacly as you want is the most flexible I've seen. It was necessary to make some genesis-specific templates for my site for the events pages, but if you're used to developing with Genesis, that's very straightforward.

You can see how I used the event listing widget of the plugin in the sidebar at http://o5b.co.uk

[Michael Atkins]

Just seen your message ODG.

This is my single-event.php in my o5b theme

PHP Code:


<?php

/**
 * Single CPT Template: events
 *
 * This file is used to display single posts of the custom post type events.
 *
 *
 */

remove_action('genesis_post_title','genesis_do_post_title');

// Venue Name
add_action( 'genesis_post_title', 'cc_gig_venue_title' );

function cc_gig_venue_title(){
    $venue_name = eo_get_venue_name();
        echo '<h1 class="venue-name">' . $venue_name . '<span> ' . get_the_title() . '</span></h1>';
}

// Remove the post info & post meta function
remove_action( 'genesis_before_post_content', 'genesis_post_info' );
remove_action( 'genesis_after_post_content', 'genesis_post_meta' );

// Remove the post content & replace with our custom version
remove_action( 'genesis_post_content', 'genesis_do_post_content' );
add_action( 'genesis_post_content', 'cc_do_events_content' );
function cc_do_events_content() {
    global $post;
    
    //setup thumbnail image args to be used with genesis_get_image();
    $size = 'large'; // Change this to whatever add_image_size you want
    $default_attr = array(
            'class'    => "aligncenter attachment-$size",
            'alt'    => $post->post_title,
            'title'    => $post->post_title,
        );
    


?>
                            <div class="entry-meta">
                                <!-- Choose a different date format depending on whether we want to include time -->
                                <?php if(eo_is_all_day()): ?>
                                    <!-- Event is all day -->
                                    <?php $date_format = 'j F Y'; ?>
                                <?php else: ?>
                                    <!-- Event is not all day - include time in format -->
                                    <?php $date_format = 'l jS F Y'; ?>
                                    <?php $time_format = 'g:ia'; ?>
                                <?php endif; ?>

                                <?php if(eo_reoccurs()):?>
                                    <!-- Event reoccurs - is there a next occurrence? -->
                                    <?php $next =   eo_get_next_occurrence($date_format);?>
                                    <?php if($next): ?>
                                        <!-- If the event is occurring again in the future, display the date -->
                                        <?php printf(__('This event is running from %1$s until %2$s. It is next occurring at %3$s','eventorganiser'), eo_get_schedule_start('d F Y'), eo_get_schedule_end('d F Y'), $next);?>

                                    <?php else: ?>
                                        <!-- Otherwise the event has finished (no more occurrences) -->
                                        <?php printf(__('This gig was on %s','eventorganiser'), eo_get_schedule_end('d F Y',''));?>
                                <?php endif; ?>

                                <?php else: ?>
                                    <!-- Event is a single event -->
                                        <?php printf(__('%s ','eventorganiser'), eo_get_the_start($date_format) );?>
                                        <?php printf(__('<span class="gig-start"> %s</span>','eventorganiser'), eo_get_the_start('g:ia') );?>
                                <?php endif; ?>
                            </div>
<?php

//==

    // check if the post has a Post Thumbnail assigned to it. You can delete the if conditional if you want and assume that there will always be a thumbnail
    if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) { 
        echo '<div class="clear"></div>';
        // printf( '<a href="%s" title="%s">%s</a>', get_permalink(), the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ), genesis_get_image( array( 'size' => $size, 'attr' => $default_attr ) ) );
        printf( '%s', genesis_get_image( array( 'size' => $size, 'attr' => $default_attr ) ) );
    }
    //else {} // you can add a default thumbnail conditional here if you want.

//==    
    // Display the content, if the content editor has content
    if( $post->post_content != "" ) {
        echo "<div class='event-description'>";
            the_content( __( '[Read more...]' , 'genesis' ) );
        echo "</div>";
        

    }

$venue_name = eo_get_venue_name();
$venue_address = eo_get_venue_address();
$venue_description = eo_get_venue_description();


echo '<div id="gig-venue">';

echo do_shortcode('[eo_venue_map class="gig-venue-map"]');

echo '<div class="venue-description">' . $venue_description . '</div>';

echo '<dl class="address">';
echo '<dt>' . $venue_name . '</dt>';
echo '<dd>' . $venue_address['address'] . '</dd>';
echo '<dd>' . $venue_address['postcode'] . '</dd>';
echo '</dl>';

echo '</div> <!-- end #gig-venue -->';
}

genesis();

for the gigs listings page I was lazy & just used a normal page and put in an event organiser shortcode to list the events.

The shortcode I used was

[eo_events]
%event_venue% %event_title%
%start{l jS F Y}% %start{ g:ia}%

%event_thumbnail{thumbnail}%
%event_venue_address%
%event_venue_postcode%

More Details[/eo_events]

but the great thing about the plugin is how flexible it is in that you can make it output any way you like

[ODG]

Okay, awesome. Thanks for posting...it helped.

I was lazy too and used the shortcode, then I switched it over to an actual page template because I could see someone accidentally deleting it out.

Thanks again Michael!