Wordpress Plugins Released: Events + Eventbrite
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We have just open sourced two plugins and would love a review / thoughts for future directions, improvement and any wisdom on promoting an open source wordpress plugin.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/the-events-calendar/
The Events Calendar plugin enables you to rapidly create and manage events using the post editor. Features include optional Eventbrite integration, Google Maps integration as well as default templates such as a calendar grid and event list for streamlined one click installation.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/eventbrite-for-the-events-calendar/
Register attendees and gather money for your events. Eventbrite is FREE for no-charge events and takes a small commission for each ticket sold. This is the easiest and best way to manage your events and now it plugs directly into Wordpress!!!
Eventbrite for The Events Calendar adds Eventbrite integration to The Events Calendar. This plugin depends on The Events Calendar and has no standalone functionality. Both plugins need to be activated in order for Eventbrite functionality to work.
Hello!
After months of searching for a good calendar for publishing events, i found yours! You guys made my day!
It works smothly, even though i have not figured out every aspect of the plugin.
This evening i have mostly made a translation of the plugin to swedish. But i have also tried to publish some events.
Maybe i have just missed something, but i have some questions:
1. Is it possible to post an event ONLY to the events calendar, and not to the regular blog posts? How do i do that?
2. Can i change the coding so that the week will start with monday? (Thats how we do it in Sweden)
3. In Sweden we only use 24-hour system. It would be nice if the plugin supported that on the dropdowns in the meta box (adminpages). Is that possible?
Im sure i will have some more questions later, but for now i just want to say: great job guys, i will support this project as much as i can!
Cheers!
/ Kaj
Hi,
Is it possible to have file .po for traslation in Italian.
Many Thanks, bye, bye
The .po file was included with the plugin in the latest release.
Shane, we did an italian translation?
Nope, we made a .po file so that Maurizio can translate it to italian for us!
So far we have had contributors donate Swedish and French.
I’m newbye with traslation, but I will try in the next day and I will send you the .po file.
Bye.
Hello,
I love the potential of the Eventbrite for Event Calendar plugin, but I cannot get it to work. When I try to activate it, I get this error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_version() in C:\wamp\www\wp-content\plugins\eventbrite-for-the-events-calendar\eventbrite-for-the-events-calendar.php on line 78
Help! Thanks. -Seth
Hi Seth,
This is a known error, often caused by your server running in safe mode (soon to be deprecated). We will apply a patch to the eventbrite plugin for the next release. Thanks for letting us know.
You can get support by going here: http://wordpress.org/tags/the-events-calendar?forum_id=10
Hi Seth,
I noticed from the path in your error message that you’re using wamp. A quick google about php’s curl in wamp reveals that others who use wamp having problems getting curl to run too. I found a post from someone who seems to know how to do it:
http://www.dibugs.com/curl-enabling-wamp
I’m guessing that if you can get wamp to install curl or you can move the project to a live server, the problem should go away.
Justin
Thanks for the help, it did seem to be the wamp. A few more questions/requests:
1) Can I embed Eventful’s “Demand It” button onto an individual event page?
2) Is there a shortcode I can use to put the event list in a post?
3) Can I divide events into different calendars or event lists by category? (eg, a list of conferences in one place, a list of workshops in another, etc)?
4) How do I insert a calendar or list into my theme?
Thanks! -Seth
Seth – can you move your questions to a new thread on the forum?
http://wordpress.org/tags/the-events-calendar?forum_id=10
great plug in guys – since this is the first time i am using on a public website that has earned me some money i will make sure i donate!!
Just a quick question:
- Even if I dont fill in anything in the “Venue” Box in the event details for a post – it shows up as Venue: [Blank] on the individual post. What to do to have it not show up at all?
Thanks
Hi Aveesh,
Can you file the request in the forum and one of the contributors will reply.
I’m still pretty green on the WordPress scene. Has anyone put together instuctions for posting the calendar to a page?
I have the plugin installed and widget working (very easy), I just don’t know how to get the list view on a page.
Hi there, when I try to activate the plugin I get this message:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONST, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /***/***/***/***/wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/the-events-calendar.php on line 14
Any clue what happens there?
I uploadet the File first directly from Wordpress.
Then I uploaded with FTP Binary.
Still same problem
any clue?
cheers
Hi Shogun,
This issue has been addressed in the forum: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/354560
In short you need to run at least php 5.1 on your server and this error comes from running a previous version of php.
Hi Shane
thanks for your super fast reply / Help.
cheers
Shogun
Hi,
I too am a wordpress newby, and would like to know, like WessleyMedia, how to display the calendar in a page. There doesn’t seem to be any documentation for that anywhere…
Many thanks,
Great plug in, very easy to use. I have a couple issues though. Im inputting the price for the event but it keeps posting as free on the website? Sorry im so new to all of this stuff. also my calendar is not showing up properly
Free was the default for a blank cost. We have changed that for the next release.
For any specific support, please go post to the support forum.
We’re building a large free and paid membership mu site and see Events management as a key feature.
What do you suggest as the best way to manage and control multiple members posting their events with us? e.g. separate blogs vs one central events blog. Separate or one central Eventbrite account.
Do you have any example sites that are using eventbrite and your plugins that I can check out?
thanks for your help.
Paul
Hi there! I was wondering – I’m also new at WP and I think your plug in is perfect. Though it’s not showing properly on this page http://www.melangearuba.com/?cat=3&eventDisplay=month – Somehow it takes the month February in Calendar View and make the columns of thursday, friday and saturday extremely narrow. I’ve placed a test event for this friday, you will see it doesn’t display right.
Can you advise? I’m running PHP5 and WP 2.9.1 (latest release).
Thanks
Hi Deanna, Thanks for the kind words. It looks great in your site!
As far as i can tell the last 3 table columns of the grid have a class “right” which is causing them to look a little funky. You need to remove the “right” class from them.
Hi deanna,
The issue you are dealing with has been addressed in the forum here:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/361290?replies=3#post-1386669
Shane,
Wonderful! This is my first installation of wordpress and the first of everything within it. Since I’m part of the group I wanted to create something to keep people posted about us… Your Events Calendar is the best one out there suiting my needs! With regards to the problem, I blindly dug into the plugins editor and made the changes – hoping I was doing it right and yes! It’s fixed! Maybe you can guide to find how to adjust the following too. When you click here http://www.melangearuba.com/?cat=3&eventDisplay=month on the event of Feb 21, you’ll see that the font below the line is larger than the one above of the line. Where can I make the font smaller? I appreciate your assistance! Sunny regards from Aruba!
Hi, after translate ( thank for notice in wordpress site), I’ve a little problem, peraphs with wordpress, I don’t know.
With New release I’ve all in Italian , perfect, in in front-end the months are in English,.
I don’t be able to understan where I can change this value.
If a question is not relevant with Events, sorry.
Great plugin guys!
As all our events take place at the same venue, it’d be great to have an option in the settings to add a default venue address, then when you add a post there is a a tick box for the default address (or the usual form for a new address).
Also a currency option and recurring event would be appreciated! Thanks again
BTW – you should submit your requests to the plugin support forum, as that is where community opinion is driving feature set.
We have the saved venue in the roadmap.
Can you explain by what you mean for a currency option – just a text field for currency type or do you want the symbols?
As for reoccuring events, probably wont happen for a short while but the request is a frequent one. A temporary solution is to use: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/duplicate-post/. For the full discussion: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/355982?replies=16#post-1393008
I’d be praising you guys right now because Wordpress and Eventbrite is quite possibly the best combination for an event website… but I can’t get it to work
I use http://www.1and1.com as a host and it appears their servers use PHP 5.2. Your installation clearly says “PHP 5.1 ONLY!!!!” but is there anything I can do so I can use your plugin?
Save me please!
Thanks a million.
-Chance
Hi Chance,
There are a few threads in the forum for install issues. Can you check the support forum first and if you don’t see your problem in there, then create a new thread with as much details as possible. The php 5.1 is a minimum, not a requirement.
Hi Shane, with the currency option I mean a way of saying default currency will be X (for example £) and this symbol shows next to all events where there is a cost.
Tried using the plugins: Eventbrite for The Events Calendar AND The Events Calendar.
My problem lies in the default values (Yes/No) for whether to use the Eventbrite ticket and whether to create a ticket or not (Yes/No).
On my blog, the eventbrite post defaults to NO but the ticket option is YES causing a problem when I try to save a draft post. WP complains that I am trying to create a ticket without a name. When I inspect the values, it does show the value to be YES when it should be NO for the ticket. How do I change this behavior? I can’t be the only one seeing this…
I have disable the plugin until I can resolve this issue. It is a pain in the rear to have to keep changing the default values so I can save the post.
Please advise…
@ Rodney – we found the bug and resolved it in root earlier this week. We are doing a 1.5.5 / 1.5.4 qa round tonight and will release the update as soon as its ready. For the future – please post support requests in the forum, as we activily read it.
Hi
Thanks for this plugin, it’s great. Nicely laid out and clear.
I’m running it on a Wordpress MU install with Buddypress, a calendar for each of the four group blogs I’m running and one at the top level.
Whilst I’d love (and can I suggest) an ability to aggregate the four separate calendars feeding into one all inclusive calendar at the top MU install level, I thought I could kinda do this by showing these as an RSS feed of each group blogs event category feed. However, I cannot do this as there is no feed from the events category. I can import feeds of other categories of these four sub-blogs but not the events category.
Wonder if you might have an solution or explaination to this.
Any tips appreciated.
AS
Hi Andy,
The rss feed issue was a bug and has been fixed – it will be out in 1.5.5 or you can do the fix yourself following the directions in this thread: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/354765?replies=12
BTw- please post any future issues in the support forum.
I’m not usually an all caps kinda dude but,
PLEASE ASK YOUR SUPPORT QUESTIONS IN THE FORUM: (http://wordpress.org/tags/the-events-calendar?forum_id=10)
I’m going to ignore them here since I am the only contributor monitoring our blog but we have 7 different contributors who watch the forum in turns.
When adding a new post, the eventbrite calendar event defaults to YES, but the “the event calendar” defaults to no so I have to set “the event calendar to yes, scroll down the the eventbrite calendar, set the eventbrite calendar to no, scroll up and set “the event calendar to no, then update the post.
Help.
teejaystudio@comcast.net
big thx from germany for this plugin
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Hi guys and congratulations for this great plugin.
I have a tiny problem that creates a giant mess.
When one creates a first event, your program creates a category Events. Then, cos I asked for it, this category appears in the catnav menu of the header.
Now, if ever I rename the category via wordpress admin page, in order to have another menu title (like “Calendar” instead of “Events”), the whole blog is badly affected, none of the menu works anymore, no more home page, nothing, only one page appears: your calendar of events, the grid. Well, although I like it very much, it’s a bit of a problem…
Can you guys help me? Thanks A LOT!!!
Gentlemen, thanks for the great plug in. I’m using it on the site above and when I input the location it doesn’t seem to recognize the state. I have the country pull down set for US, did I miss something? Did Michigan secede? Can’t figure out what’s going on here.
Your plugin rocks! Thank you!
hello all,
thank you for this great plugin!
I tried to translate into French for the months in the calendar since it is the mess following: [an error occurred while processing this directive]
and when I click on a month there is always the month of January, which appears in the dropdown, yet the url and displays the correct month are: category/events/2010-06/
What can I do?
Thank you for your help,
GUys,
Do you have an ETA for “Sync with Eventbrite (one by one OR full account sync)”. Will this sync User info from EB to WP? And, will this work within the WPMU/BuddyPress environment?
Thanks,
Doug
It’s ready for beta. I’ll post a copy of trunk later today. Sync with eb pulls in all events from your eventbrite account and and makes a post for each event in the events calendar. We have not tested in in mu.
Im getting the following error from wordpress, this feature worked ok yesterday, but i needed to make some changes and now cant update or add new event ?
EventBrite Error
An error occurred while contacting Eventbrite. Please review your information and try again.
Status: 0
can you help ? ive emailed support at eventbrite but its been 2 days now and no reply?
Great Plugin! Any chance this plugin is going to be updated to be used as a custom post type?
Definitely, although I can’t give a timeline.
You rock!
Hey, excellent plugin, realy comprehensiv, ical etc. and no probelm in styling it.
But im experiencing fails when using it on WP3/buddypress.
When activated it blocks new blogs from beeing created.
Any plans to make it wp3 / MU compatible?