A few questions before buying PRO

Hello,

I am going to do my best to answer these for you:

1. Yes that is possible.

2. Sort of. You can create multiple calendars if you want within Google. You can also assign the events colors on your Google calendars which can be read in (Pro version) and displayed as you can see here: https://demo.simplecalendar.io/google-calendar-pro/grid-view/ and here (with FC add-on): https://demo.simplecalendar.io/fullcalendar/with-google-calendar-pro/
You can set a category up in your WP admin for the calendars and create a “grouped calendar” wuth your entire calendars together by the category: https://docs.simplecalendar.io/grouped-calendar/ This is not individual event categorization though.

3. See above also, but not really on an event by event basis. There is however a “search query” option where if you have maybe a certain prefix to certain events or something like that then you could filter them that way. There is also nothing built in to let the users do this themselves at this point.

Hope I was able to help clear some stuff up, but please let me know if you have any more questions regarding it.

Thanks!

Nick, you’ve done a fantastic job! I am sorry not to have a go with your calendar before buying other products, but this calendar with the FC calendar really rocks!

1) I wonder how you can filter calendars using a sort of legend or widget as here. Users must be able to filter events “by calendar” (for them it’s a category). On your side it would mean to show only the selected calendar…maybe it is possible to insert colored buttons that will query Google accessing a single calendar?

2) Do colors from multiple calendars appear on the widget

3) How do you prevent users on the frontend to modify event details? I see that once i click, Google calendar will open…

4) Did you make any testing on performance? What is the overhead? Other calendars plugins will do stuff also while there’s no calendar to view. Is this the case?

5) Can other Google users share all calendar events? Also if the calendar is a container for multiple calendars?

6) Did you face some overhead when using multiple calendars? I need to use a dozen of categories, using your plugins means dozens calendars. Did you test this?

7) Could it be possible to add a “featured image” to the event so that it will appear in the tooltip? I am not aware of inserting images in Google calendar itself

8) Are you warned about any Google Calendar API change in advance (as a developer)? This to prevent sudden blackouts of service…

9) Are there any plans to export events somehow? Not sure about Google API’s capabilities. For example a user could wish to import the event in his/her calendar

10) Possible to add locations in the event? But this is probabily a Google related possibility?

Many congrats and keep it going, this plugin rocks!

Alright let me try and answer these ones for you.

1. I mean this is all stuff that would be possible, but it is just not built into the plugin(s) right now.

2. Yes.

3. That shows them the event in their Google account, so if they change it or save it or anything like that then it would be saving to their Google calendars – not the one it originates form.

4. The only overhead I know of is that the CSS and JS scripts get loaded on each page. This is in part because of the various ways a calendar are added to the page that we can’t check for every possibility consistently. If WordPress itself makes this easier to do in the future then we would definitely change it.

5. You can use shared calendars with the plugin.

6. We have tested many different scenarios including using multiple calendars, however, we can’t test every possibilty that could come up.

7. This is not built into the plugin so you would have to write a plugin to add this as an extra feature (recommended approach for customizations) or modify the plugin code (not recommended).

8. We keep an eye on it and pay attention to it. This has already happened to us once and we were able to get it resolved in about 24 hours I think.

9. I am not sure if there are any plans for this at this time.

10. Yes you can already add the locations to your Google event’s and read them in with the [location] event template tag (more here: https://docs.simplecalendar.io/event-template-tags/ )

Hope that helps clear some things up!