I’m With The Band - Gig Guide
Those close to me and my I’m With The Band project know the frustrations I’ve had with re-instituting the gig guide when we moved cms platforms from Joomla to Wordpress.
I’ve tried about 5 different calendars, none of which would embed in a page without some form of pain be it in the form of database corruption, javascript conflicts, and a myriad of other dramas. I was all set to give up when I stumbled upon Google Calendar.
My .mac subscription recently expired and I was about to renew it as I find it very useful for syncing iCal across my 4 macs but I wasn’t really keen on coughing up the cash to re-subscribe so I started looking for other services that could just provide a calendar syncing service. Enter Google Calendar!
Basically Google Calendar is your typical online calendar that can be shared amongst other users and what not, with one difference….it gives you the ability to make a calendar public and then provides you with the code to embed that into ANY webpage.
And Bingo was his name-o!
After spending an hour this morning putting all the dates in the calendar for April I grabbed the code and created a new page on I’m With The Band, paste the code into the html editor and voila! It really couldn’t have been any easier.
Also, as part of the calendar setup you can share the administration of it with other people so I’ve setup the guys at Reverb Street Press with access so that they too can help update and maintain the calendar. And because I’ve setup the calendar as a public calendar it also appears in Google’s search for public calendars, so people who are searching for a Newcastle or Central Coast gig guide our calendar becomes available….hrmm, I better make sure I put a link back to the website in it though..
So if you’re looking for a calendar solution in Wordpress then give Google Calendar a go because it works and is dead simple to setup!
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