Comments on: A Call For Feature Requests: An Events Manager

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:43:54 +0000

I would love to see you come up with a good events manager. I’ve tried pretty much everyone out there, but never found one that really satisfied my needs. Here are some items I would love to see:

* Supporting multiple calendars/categories
* Sipmle Ajax editing AJAX, drag and drop functionality would be very helpful), * External ical feed support (i.e. google calendar)
* Location support (managing locations, so you can reuse them), display options
* RSS & iCal feeds for the calendars
* Recurring events support
* Template Tags and Post tag fuctions/options

By: Benjamin Sterling

Benjamin Sterling — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 23:50:54 +0000

@Barry have not seen you plugin but will grab a copy to have a look-see. My plugin is semi-stalled right now do to lack of time. You can take a look at the code if you want at http://tinyurl.com/5aeuya

For the most part it is functional, with very little bells and whistles. I am using a version of it on a clients site, but that version has even less features.

Feel free to content me thru the contact me link above and I will be sure to respond.

By: Barry

Barry — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:22:30 +0000

Hi
I just found this post by popping over from Ozh’s site and was wondering how you are getting on with your plugin.
I’m the author of the Vent plugin in this years Weblogtoolscollection.com competition which does a few Event management bits and pieces (though not as many as I would have wanted due to time constraints) and wondered if you fancied having a chat about functionality with the idea of maybe merging some code / ideas.
Rgds
Barry

By: Vivian

Vivian — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:30:09 +0000

I need an events manager plugin that would include a widget for listing the events on the sidebar, that would include an option to link events to their own page for more description, that would allow anyone to register, and that would either let them pay for the event (think webinars?) or at least integrate with another plugin that does so.
Hope that makes sense from a non-techie!

By: karenm

karenm — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:43:18 +0000

Careful options about repeating events:
The 3rd Wednesday of every month.
The last Sunday every other month.
The first Tuesday after the first Monday every X month (ie: US election days.)
X Days before/after any of these things.
Every Monday, but NOT on {add a user-input list of exceptions.}

Another idea: Ability to fetch via RSS or iCal, or somesuch.

Views of calendar based on category, or tag, or user, etc.

Just some ideas.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:54:06 +0000

@Benjamin Sterling:

I’ve also been mulling an idea for something like this over recently, although I hadn’t really started any real code. In particular, something I’ve been thinking about for another one of my plugins is a way for people to easily add fields. For instance, the ability to add a field called room number to their appointments without the program explicitly knowing about room numbers in advance.

In any case, send me an e-mail (or just drop a line on my site).

~ Christopher

Also, off topic: I notice you using the @ syntax. Have you seen the Comment Connection plugin (disclaimer: I am not related to the author)? I’ve actually found it quite convenient.

By: Benjamin Sterling

Benjamin Sterling — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:11:36 +0000

@Azizur Not a problem, send over what you have. I am still working out some logic, but if you are interested in helping out, I have some items you can work on. Let me know either way on those requests.

By: Azizur Rahman

Azizur Rahman — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:15:45 +0000

Hi Benjamin,

I have been working on something similar and and since you seems to have got started before me on this I don’t think it worth duplicating the effort rather join the effort to make one better.

I can put forward some of the requirements that some of my client requested.

Let me know what you think.

By: Benjamin Sterling

Benjamin Sterling — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:04:40 +0000

@Dan that is a nice idea, I’ll have to look at those APIs and see how they work. It would be nice to have your site easily sync up.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:04:50 +0000

How about a cron job to aggregate RSVPs from places such as upcoming, facebook, meetup, etc? It’s a pain having to track who’s coming to an event across several platforms

By: Benjamin Sterling

Benjamin Sterling — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:52:40 +0000

@Eric none that I would recommend, I never had any luck with any of them.

By: Eric Masiello

Eric Masiello — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:38:10 +0000

Well keep me posted on the progress. I’m anxious to try it out. Are there any other plugins out there you’re aware of that might fit my need?

By: Benjamin Sterling

Benjamin Sterling — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:33:57 +0000

@Eric this is how flexible I think this should be, not just an events system but a “gig” system. Trying to keep it simple will be tricky.

By: Eric Masiello

Eric Masiello — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:12:02 +0000

I’ve actually wanted something for allowing me to post my lineup for my radio show each week. I’ve kinda done this by hand all along. If it was something that allowed me to post some names of people who are on the bill and maybe the date and time they are performing I could totally use this. Then, I would just need some way to manage it and show each upcoming event on my homepage listing the date and the people performing.

By: Benjamin Sterling

Benjamin Sterling — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:51:41 +0000

@Tane Nice, I’ve already got the UI datepicker in there, but the Tabs and Microformats are a great idea.