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March 14, 2006
Scratch My Calendaring Itch
The deal is, I'm helping a couple Worthy Causes set up a web presence using Wordpress. A vital part of reaching people and informing them is a calendar. The requirements are two-fold:
- Events should be viewable in a little box on the side of their Wordpress-powered blog, and clickable for more information. Bonus for offering several different ways to view/share the calendar (eg a monthly box with events, a list with time, day, and month of upcoming events, etc). Bonus for mousing over a calendar date triggering those sweet little ajax zooming window thingies with the event details. Bonus for offering a sign-up and reminder email/sms on the click-through. A final bonus for nice RSS options for subscribing to a calendar or specific types of events.
- Events should be easily added/edited/administered. Ideally, you could post to the calendar through the Wordpress posting interface. Bonus for posting new events via email/sms, and for keeping track of who is coming or interested. Minus points for having to go to an external site, but not a deal-killer as long as it's easy.
Solutions? Not so much. I've looked at 30boxes (promising but not there currently), a few wordpress plugins, and others. Nothing quite hits the mark. Paran0id's Calendar plugin for wordpress comes the closest, and I might hack his php a bit to get something workable.
I'm not the only hapless do-gooder out there. Joel Spolsky, with a different set of requirements, isn't happy with his options.
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