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I should mention that this is kind of off topic, as it doesn’t specifically relate to your plugin and its performance. Your plugin works as advertised and does exactly what it’s set out to do. I think I just need to bite the bullet and put aside some time to learn enough WordPress-specific PHP and make my plugin happen.

Yes, ideally I would like my events to be handled as posts (which your plugin does). This gives some flexibility for customizing how events are displayed (styling) when viewed as either single posts or an ordered list of upcoming events on a specified events page (a feed).

I realize this can easily be done by just creating a custom post type for events without a plugin, but a plugin such as yours allows for an admin panel on the backend with input fields specific to events, so as not to confuse them with normal posts or other custom post types.

Where this plugin falls short for me is that it only gives the option to display the events on a calendar, which I have no interest in displaying on a site. Rather, I would like to display the events (with various meta custom meta fields, a featured image for show posters, etc) as an ascending feed (loop, whatever) with events disappearing from the feed after they expire (say, midnight after the event has started if an end date/time hasn’t been specified).

I wouldn’t recommend Divine. It’s pretty darn close to being vaporware anyway (not even sure it works with CS5 at this point). You’re better off learning the ins-n-outs of WP (and CSS in particular) in the long run.

After a lot of trial and error, I was able to solve my problem. The solution actually eliminated the need for a plug-in altogether.

Ahh, that works. Very nice. Now for extra credit….

Any way to have it work on specific custom post types (instead of all of them)? I’m using a custom post type to manage events, which are basically future posts. The problem is that while my page template for events is coded to display future posts and ignore published posts (good), the events automatically change to ‘publish’ed on the day they occur, therefore disappearing from view (bad). I’d like them to disappear the day after the publish date.

Extra-extra credit:
Any way to have this happen automatically, instead of having to set an expiration date at the creation of each post? This probably negates the need for a plugin, I realize

I kind of figured that looking at the code last night. Pretty hairy stuff. The other alternative I considered was widgetizing the content area that I was using for the list, and using that short code since it has the functionality I’m looking for. However the widget produces a simple list and doesn’t allow for styling each of the specific elements (date, time, title, description) as far as I can tell. Is this feasible? Could I add classes to each of those things to better handle them with CSS? Do these classes exist, and I’m just not seeing them?

I’m not going to muddy up the forums with a duplicate post, so hopefully someone will get my message in a bottle ?? If anyone out there has the chops or inclination to help me craft a solution that could introduce the function to have expired events vanish from existence (or at least become invisible), I would be forever thankful. This could be in the form of a modified my-calendar.php file, or perhaps another option I haven’t considered.

Much appreciated!

I’d take a custom loop. But I might be too thick (PHP dumb) to code one myself. But I’m always up for experimentation. Could I just use some of the code from the Widgets loop (upcoming) to add this functionality to the list view, or is that as simplistic and naive as I suspect?

That did the trick. I had tried that before but with dashes instead if underscores. Been staring at the same stylesheet for way to long I guess. Thanks for the help!

fixed. Z-Index