[Plugin: All-in-One Event Calendar] Some Feedback and why I uninstalled this plugin

A positive side to using custom posts for events – As a multilingual site owner (via WPML), I like this because this way WPML allows me to create translations for the events

@TropolisGroup
as nelra said, we had a donate button on our settings page in previous releases but we only received like 1-2 donations so we decided to abandon it.
We hope that people will like the plugin and the support we provide and will eventually choose us for their next developing project. We will keep the plugin open source and free.
As for separating “Hide Subscriber/Add to Calendar buttons in calendar and single event views” – great suggestion and makes good sense. I will add it for one of our next releases.

@pixelyzed
Thank you!
Multiday events should be displayed as one single entry. If you see multiple instances then this is likely a bug. I haven’t looked into the widget but I will make sure everything is correct there.
Recurrence: this is a great idea, perhaps we can keep the UI the way it is but you can run it multiple times to create more than one recurrence rule. Thanks!

Hi Yani:

I installed the latest Version 1.2.2 and it looks like the Add to Calendar button still creates a whole new shared calendar in Outlook instead of opening a single event for review/save to user’s existing default calendar. You mentioned above this was a confirmed bug and would be fixed in a future release. I just wanted to follow-up to see if you plan to modify that function.

Thanks so much for this great plug-in!

Bob Herman
Tropolis Group

I try to achieve this:
Say I have event for example on 1, 2, 4 & 5 january 2012 and today is 3 January 2012. I want to place it in the way below:

1. next event (show the closest next event in full single page – 4 Jan)
2. upcoming event (show an event after next event in full single page – 5 Jan)
3. recent event (show an event that just past before today in full single page – 2 Jan)
4. events archive (show 5 past events with title starting from the most recent events, link and excerpt from the event before recent event (2 Jan) – just like usual blog archive page. It may have pagination to view another 5 events and so on)

I can do the events archive page (and other pages as well) using the code below if I’m using regular wordpress category:

<?php $args=array(
      'cat' => 5,
      'showposts' => 5,
      'caller_get_posts' => 1,
      'offset' => 2
    );
    $my_query = new WP_Query($args);
    if( $my_query->have_posts() ) { while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
	<h3><strong><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Pautan ke <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></strong></h3>
    <?php
      the_excerpt();
      endwhile;
    } //if ($my_query)
  wp_reset_query();  // Restore global post data stomped by the_post().
    ?>

Nelra replied:

There are a few ways to do things – for categories, one would be:
get_terms( ‘events_categories’, $args );

For events themselves, it depends on what you want to do exactly. You can query the ai1ec_event table, or do get_posts where post_type = ai1ec_event

but sadly I dont know how and where I should put it. Please yani @ nelra.. Thank you thank you thank you…

Thanks Yani

One other thing. For another site I use this calendar plugin…

http://www.kieranoshea.com/calendar

simply because it permits me to assign a specific user role for those who can add/edit events, i.e. I can let site Authors edit the calendar, without having to make them Editors or Admins.

It would be lovely if your calendar had this functionality for multi-user sites 🙂

Keep up the good work.

M.

First off, love this plugin. Really powerful & great features.

One main question that I am trying to resolve..
Is there a way to have an EVENT also display as a POST?
& if so, how can I make that happen?

Resolved: I launched the site and with different WordPress Address (URL) and Site Address (URL) and got the endless spinning circle (Ajax). I set both the URLs to the same value and it’s OK now.

Interestingly, if I loaded the calendar using the WordPress Address (URL) – even if it’s different than the Site Address (URL) it works. You would think the opposite would be true since some people can’t or don’t want to use the same URL for both.