Austin Tech Events Calendar WordPress Plugin
April 21, 2008
Categories: Random Thoughts & Going Ons
Tags: Austin, calendar, Door64, Tech Events, Wordpress
Want to promote the tech community in Austin? This is your WordPress plugin! You can see an example of the plugin on my blog’s sidebar.
The Austin Tech Events Calendar plugin is a “branch” of the wpng-calendar, a WordPress plugin for integrating a Google calendar into your WordPress blog. I’ve customized it to best display events from the door64.com events calendar.
To install this plugin:
- Download it from here
- Upload the plugin to the “wp-content/plugins” directory in your WordPress installation
- Activate the plugin in your WordPress admin panel
- Go get yourself a Google GDATA API key here
- In your Wordpress admin panel, goto “Options -> Austin Tech Events” then enter your Google GDATA API key. If you’re running WordPress 2.5, look under “Settings -> Austin Tech Events.”
- Under “Presentation -> Widgets” add the widget to your side bar, alter the options if you like
That’s it!
For more information about this plugin checkout the documentation from the the wpng-calendar site.
Drop me some comments if you have questions or feedback! 
PS. This plugin uses Javascript to interface the Google API. I’d love to rebuild this plugin using PHP so that the links inside of the event descriptions would help each organization’s page rank in Google search. If anyone wants to take a stab at converting this from Javascript to PHP, I’d love you forever!
Have an old version of WordPress that doesn’t support widgets? Not using WordPress at all? Check out this post: Austin Tech Events Widget for those without widgets or WordPress.
14 Responses to “Austin Tech Events Calendar WordPress Plugin”
By Matt on Apr 22, 2008
To borrow the vernacular from my youthful days… Wicked awesome! This is great - thanks very much for developing this widget.
By RoundSparrow on Apr 22, 2008
what’s the licenes, I suggest BSD
By Dusty on Apr 22, 2008
@Matt - You bet.
@RoundSparrow - It’s crazy open source.
By Dusty on Apr 22, 2008
Eww. Just noticed a couple visual bugs in IE7. I’ll push out version 1.1 to address that soon. If you’ve installed the plugin, you should see the next version release in your WordPress plugin admin panel when it’s ready to go.
By dsimone on Apr 23, 2008
Hey- great hack. If I want to use this with code rather than use the widget, what can I place on a page to get your agenda format rather than the standard wpng list format? Thanks!!
By dsimone on Apr 23, 2008
Also! Which file(s) are your table formatting outlined in? Love the flexibility you have going on the AT Events site. Cheers.
By Dusty on Apr 23, 2008
@dsimone - If you want to get the widget style without installing the widget (I’m guessing you’re running an older version of WordPress?) You could view the source on my site, copy the JavaScript in the header related to the calendar (it’s fairly apparent) place it in your header (remember to change the file paths), then copy the JavaScript on the page that display the widget, and drop that where you want it on your page. You can even set the options in the JavaScript in the header.
The HTML formating is in the php file. But if you’re doing it in code without the widget, you can just edit the HTML directly and drop in JavaScript box where you want the list.
I hope that helps a bit.
By Øyvind Ruud on Apr 26, 2008
This look very nice for me. But I have problems to instal this widget:
“In your Wordpress admin panel, goto “Options -> x” then enter your Google GDATA API key”
There is no Options -> x in my admin panel? I have WordPress version 2.5
Can you Help me!
By rodrigo on Apr 28, 2008
Hi, thanks for your effots…
I´m trying incluye the calendar in my handmade sidebar but I don’t know the exact code to insert. I’m not widget compatible.
thanks
Rodrigo
By Dusty on Apr 28, 2008
@Øyvind Ruud - Thanks for checking out the widget. For WordPress 2.5 try looking under “Settings -> Austin Tech Events.”
By Dusty on Apr 28, 2008
@rodrigo I wrote a new post on how to do what you’re asking.
http://dustyreagan.com/austin-tech-events-widget-for-those-without-widgets-or-wordpress/
By adancer on May 8, 2008
Hi,
it’s posible to see in the sidebar the pastevents? Not the upcoming only but the past also, so the people can see what have the organization done.