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Support email list was down.

rboatright — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:43:03 +0000

The support email list was down from March 31 till April 22, 2009. If your question didn’t get answered during those three weeks, please re-post it.

Sorry about that.

Event Calendar 3 now “most popular” !

rboatright — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:12:23 +0000

Congratulations to the recent community effort. Due to all your work, Event Calendar 3 now appears on the first page of “most popular plugins” at wordpress.org! That’s quite an accomplishment for a plugin that’s been hosted on WordPress.org for less than a month! Congratulations to you all!

Big Calendar version

rboatright — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:36:36 +0000

A 3.1.2 version of Event Calendar with Big Calendar support is now available at
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/event-calendar/download/.

This version supports two methods of displaying a big calendar:

You can display a big calendar on any page or post by inserting the text [EC3BigCalendar] on the page.
You can create a page template that calls the big calendar function. Copy your theme’s page.php and insert the following code:

Find more on setting up templates HERE.

You can see an example of the calendar produced at
http://oaregion4.org/blog1/?page_id=60 .

You may need to edit the CSS for this function to fit the appearance of your theme.

Be aware that this is NOT the main line development of Event Calendar. Version 3.2 will have big calendar support when it is released, but until then, this allows you to have most of the benefits in 3.1.2 without waiting. This version has been tested with WordPress 2.6.3 and with 2.7.almost-beta.

WordPress will tell you that you need to update to 3.1.2, since that is the main line. If you rely on Big Calendar, don’t do it. As always, direct questions and comments to the mailing list.

This version of EC3 uses code contributed by David Garlitz and Matthew Middleton. Thanks to them.

-_ Rick

Development Discussions

rboatright — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:04:03 +0000

Active discussions about the future of Event-Calendar are happening in the mailing list. If you’re interested, or can contribute as a programmer or documentation person, join in. You also might want to cruise through the mailing list archives.

If you are interested in testing the future version of EC3, you can download the development version.

But for goodness sake, DO NOT use that version on your live site. The development version is changing rapidly and may be seriously broken at any given time. Still, if you like to read code, or want to help with documentation, download it to a test site and join in.

Use this link for the current stable version. (as of October 2008)

Note that the current stable version DOES NOT have the big-calendar mods incorporated. If you need them, just wait. 3.2 is coming.

(This post accurate as of 20 October 2008.)

Critical ease of use

rboatright — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:16:11 +0000

For the past two years I have been using WordPress and Event Calendar as the content management system for web sites for 12-step programs like OARegion4 and SunFlower Intergroup.

Frequently groups have no one with knowledge of html, and if there is anyone they become bound to the web site with chains. Event Calendar and WordPress allow simple easy rotation of service to anyone able to use a browser. Without EC, I don’t know how I would do it. EC and WordPress have provided an avenue of service and support to a lot of suffering people. I’m very grateful it exists.