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@hce – I also adjusted the alignment of the map, you’re right, that does make a lot more sense. Will be included in the next update.

@hce,

Thanks for pointing out the widget problem! This was fixed in Agenda view but I forgot to fix it in the Agenda Widget view. Will be fixed in the next release.

As for the multi-day events problem, the reason we had to create a separate event instance for each day of multi-day events was so that the different calendar views would properly query events for each day. It was basically a programming challenge we had to overcome, and that was our temporary solution. However, we understand many users would not like to see events broken up in this way and are planning to change the rendering code so that these events appear to users as single events spanning multiple days.

Thank you for pointing out the other calendar that does this properly. Google Calendar and other calendar programs do the same thing, and we’d our plugin to follow suit.

As for your last question, you can modify the page template for events like you can for any post type. This is a feature of WordPress’s theming system. The name of the template file used by single event pages is “single-ai1ec_event.php”. If that file does not exist in the theme, then it will default to “single.php”. So, if you’d like to use your “page” template for events, then simply copy “page.php” to “single-ai1ec_event.php”.

@jmattwallace: it could very well be related. We haven’t had a chance to look into the issue yet but we’ll post an update when we know.

@brighambeards: Yikes, I think I broke today’s yellow highlighting in the latest release. ?? To fix it, edit css/calendar.css and replace lines 215-216 with these ones:

background: #ffd !important;
background: rgba(255,255,128,0.3) !important;

Sorry for the inconvenience. This will be fixed in version 1.0.7.

@hce: There is nothing available within our plugin that specifically offers this ability. However, since events created by this plugin have virtually all the same features as regular WordPress posts, if you know of a way to control which template WordPress posts use, then you should be able to apply that same technique to Event posts. I personally don’t know a technique to do this other than modifying the theme. You will probably need to contact the developer of your theme to accomplish this.

@hce – the fix that addresses the calendar page issue also fixes the single event page. As to your question about the individual event page – that’s a good point, we haven’t added a way to choose a different page template for single events. A temporary workaround: If you are familiar with CSS, you can always modify the theme’s stylesheet to style event pages differently by taking advantage of the single-ai1ec_event body class that is present only on single event pages.

@hce – it will be later today.

@bowoolley,

Website URI field request noted.

There are no shortcodes available yet. We are planning to add shortcodes for embedding custom filtered views of the calendar in pages. It wouldn’t make sense for us to implement our own slider into the plugin since so many good ones already exist for WordPress. I guess the question is, how can we let other WordPress plugins “see” the event posts as if they were normal posts? We already have a task in place for 1.1 to give the admin the option to list event posts among other posts and within RSS feeds if they wish. I will update this task to make sure we do it in such a way that other WordPress plugins that only know how to handle regular posts can also see the event posts.

Google Maps: Valid point, however there will be those who wish to have the map displayed by default, without requiring a second click. So we can add this as an option – though we might put it off until 1.0.7.

24-hour clock: We’ll integrate this into Acreo’s request for #6, basically giving the blog admin the option to format dates and times however they wish.

Thanks for the feedback,
Paul

@Acreo,

1. That’s a good idea. We didn’t code the date pop-up plugin (it was an open-source one we found and liked), but we can certainly modify it so that it’s a little more intuitive. I’ve added it to our task list.

2. I’ll need a more specific example of this to reproduce it, since this is not the behaviour that I see. The following is the intended behaviour, and is what happens when I play around with it: When setting the start date/start time, and the start date/time fields lose focus, the end date and end time are automatically adjusted so that the event’s previous duration remains the same. The default duration for an event is 1 hour.

3. I haven’t been able to reproduce this behaviour yet. Perhaps it’s a Windows-specific thing. When I have a chance I’ll get my Windows laptop up and running to see if that’s the case.

4. We based the default start time on that used by other popular calendar systems. The current behaviour is the same as in Google Calendar, MS Outlook, and others, and I think we’d prefer not to deviate, if possible, lest we risk confusing those used to this behaviour. I understand your reasoning, however, from an efficiency point of view. I suppose we could make “default start time of noon” a setting, at the risk of cluttering the settings page… I any case I’m afraid we’ll have to put this one a little lower in our priority list.

5. It’s currently scheduled for 1.1. We’ll try to move it up to 1.0.6. More requests are coming every day and we’re trying as best we can to satisfy the most urgent requests first. It sounds like this is a pretty urgent one though. Our development team consists of only Canadians and Europeans, so we didn’t even think of this – sorry!

6. The formatting was based on Google Calendar (which uses the short form of weekdays as well as omits the year) and trying to squeeze a lot of information into a small space (say, when an event starts at, say, 6pm on one day and ends at 2am on the next). However, you make a good point, so we should figure out other ways to fit everything in there. The best solution is probably to provide a few date format options in Settings – I’m adding it to the list!

@Acreo – 1.0.5 is up, and I hope it fixes many of the problems you were having.

@Acreo – thanks for the debugging info, I found the source of the JS problem. We’ll have a new version out for you shortly!

@david,
a) Good idea; there should definitely be the option to specify dates in US format
b) That should be easy enough to add. But until we do, can you get by with just inserting a hyperlink to the website in the event’s description?

Hi @Acreo,

Regarding items #8, #9 – the recurrence form fields also depend on JavaScript to function. It seems there is a JavaScript error on the Add new Event/Edit Event screen that is causing a myriad of problems for you. Are you familiar with debugging JavaScript? We will probably need the exact line of code that is causing the error to get any further, which you can find out from Tools > Error Console, or using Firebug.

Thanks for your reply,
Paul

@Acreo,

It looks to me like most of the bugs you’ve reported relate to JavaScript-based actions. #1, #2, #3, #5, #7 – all of these things rely on event handlers that are registered during a successful initialization of JavaScript code. When there is an uncaught JavaScript exception upon load, however, those event handlers will not be registered because the interpreter was interrupted.

Since we haven’t been able to reproduce this behaviour – a JavaScript exception upon that page’s load – it’s possible you’re using a browser/OS combination that we haven’t fully tested yet. What browser, browser version, and OS are you using? Also, the keys to your WP dashboard may be needed if we find we still can’t reproduce it on our end.

As for the second Publish button, that’s just an option on the settings screen, which you can turn off. We had this feature request by one of our clients who wanted to make it easy for their less savvy users to contribute events. (The other publish button isn’t obvious if you’ve already scrolled down on the Add a New Event screen.)

A limited calendar display per-category using a shortcode is a great idea for a feature. We’ll add this to our request tracker.

We apologize for the limited documentation – some unexpected bugs popped up shortly before our launch date and took priority. We’ll be adding to the documentation on an ongoing basis, and we appreciate your patience.

I’ll look into your recurrence-related reports shortly. I’ll also check out #10 – I’m a little unclear on what you mean by “linked post” but maybe I’ll figure it out with a little testing.

Thanks,

Paul
Lead Developer
The Seed Studio

No, no upgrades, default theme. Someone else suggested I run a MySQL repair, so I’m trying that now.