Group Calendar

  • sunflowerfly

    (@sunflowerfly)


    16 years ago

    I’m fairly new to wordpress, but finally getting comfortable with my own blog, and now attempting to build one for our rural community of 400 people. I’m using the free hosting at wordpress.com, that has a few widgets available for use, but don’t believe it’s possible to add more. My hope is that this is someday mostly self sustaining with enough users adding posts, from everything the city council meetings, to school activities.

    I wanted to build an online calendar somewhere, and have it link in and viewable on its own page. Is this even possible?

    The calendar needs several logins, so that multiple community members can add events (same as blog).

    Rather have this as a page in itself to make it more legible, but would use in a sidebar if only way possible, or a link in a worst case scenario.

    ideas?

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  • RoseCitySister

    (@rosecitysister)

    CHeck out Google calendar. I used it as an event calendar, but not in the sidebar. Just make a page template and paste the javascript for the calendar into the template, then create a page using that template.

    Contact me through my profile’s website if you need more help. I would paste the template here but I doubt the mods would appreciate it! ??

    On edit – I just realized you said you have a blog on WordPress.com – I don’t know if they allow you to create and upload theme pages. You could still create a Google calendar and link to it though – it makes a pretty sweet event calendar!

    Thread Starter sunflowerfly

    (@sunflowerfly)

    Thanks Rosecitysister for the reply.

    My personal blog is on a site that I pay for and can extend and edit, but did not want to support the blog for our town, therefore using the free service at wordpress.com. It works well for a quick blog, but not very extendable.

    It does allow custom CSS for $15 a year, so that wouldn’t break the bank, but my CSS knowledge is fairly limited.

    What I’ve attempted so far is to use famundo online calendar. The code to embed it on another site looks like this:

    <iframe src=’https://ourtown.famundo.com/calendar_center/publish/month?&end_date=&calss=2_1&start_date=&notitle=1&#8242; width=’100%’ height=’300′ frameborder=’0′> <noframes><body>Your browser does not handle frames! Powered by Famundo </body></noframes></iframe>

    I made a separate page just for the calendar, and pasted in this code. Of course it just prints the “your browser does not handle frames” on the page since wordpress strips the html.

    I’m stuck. =\

    RoseCitySister

    (@rosecitysister)

    Well, if you must stay on WordPress.com, I would set up a Google calendar on Google, and just link to it. You might do well to consider switching to www.remarpro.com – you can import your posts from the .com site, and you’ll have a lot more flexibility. It’s really not hard – WordPress.tv has a ton of videos to help if you’re the visual type!

    Thread Starter sunflowerfly

    (@sunflowerfly)

    RoseCitySister, thanks yet again, that is a good thought.

    I’ve also considered putting this blog under my site, as have unlimited size and throughput, and neither blog would be big or have tons of traffic. Not sure how much trouble that would cause keeping everything straight (reading multiple blog instructions now).

    Also found instructions to use RSS feeds from google calendar, use feed43 to change the stream, and feed into the rss sidebar widget (https://helensnerdyblog.wordpress.com/). That would give the next few events on the site, but would have to link to the calendar for events further out. Was going to use famundo.com for a calendar, as it handles multiple users well, but lacks an RSS feed =\.

    Still pondering.

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