First off, I just want to say AMEN to this question. There are not a lot of good, reliable calendar plugins out there. I’ve struggled with this myself. Judging by your list of event calendars you’ve tried, you’ve just about exhausted the list of decent to reputable plugins. I honestly think what you’re looking for … Read more
This one is the best I know of: Event Calendar / Scheduler The main features include: Day/Week/Month/Year/Agenda view + ability to create custom view Drag-n-drop support to configure event date and time Customizable appearance Single/multi-days events (daily, weekly, monthly or yearly basis) Customizable time scale Recurring events Multilingual
I’m not sure about a plugin, but you can definitely add custom meta that allows you to set the event date, or even an event daterange (my preferred way of handling this is an event date and a duration, cuts down on calculations in the backend and is generally easier to understand, but ymmv). This … Read more
Check out wp_cron and the cron_schedules filter. There are lots of good tutorials out there like this one from WPTuts or this one from Viper007Bond.
Finally have a chance to post my solution. Note that the events show All Day events first if there are any. Unfortunately I don’t know a way around this as it is coded this way in a SQL query within one of the plugin files (and it is even commented in the file that All … Read more
I believe what you’re referring to is called “Post Types”. By default, WordPress has a complete post types you’re already familiar with – post ( news / blog ), page ( Pages ), attachment ( Media ), revision ( Page / Post Revisions ). You can read up on the full list of built in … Read more
Your current function works pretty well, but it’s hooked on to a post update hook so you need to actually edit/update a post for it to run. If you want the posts to be modified automatically after the specified time then you’ll need to set up a scheduled event. I can think of two ways … Read more
You may wish to consider Event Organiser as well (disclaimer: I’m the developer). It’s completely free, supports reoccurring events and shortcodes & widgets for displaying them in lists and calendars. (I realise this is an old question, but it may be useful to others)
Turns out I had to set the ALTERNATE_WP_CRON flag in wp-config.php to make this work: define(‘ALTERNATE_WP_CRON’, true);
There two things that you need to do to make this happen: 1) Create metadata for the data for each event 2) Query for the posts using meta_query For #1, you need to add a metabox that allows the user to add a date for the event. This data should be stored as metadata using … Read more