[EventCalendar] Re: [firetree.net] Comment: "EventCalendar 3.1 Beta"

[Alex Tingle]

Hi Alf,

Perhaps you should consider joining the EventCalendar mailing list:
 http://penguin.firetree.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/eventcalendar

There's a SourceForge project for bug reports and patch suggestions:
 http://sf.net/projects/wpcal

On Mon, 04 Sep 2006 22:00:06 +0100
"Alf" wrote:

> I've been running eventcalendar for a long time on Wordpress 1.5
> and I love the work you've done. Wonderful!
>
> Now I'm testing your Beta 3.1pr12 (download sept. 4) with Wordpress 2.0.4
> Works like a breeze, impressive Beta!

Thank you.


> A few suggestions: 
> 
> * For those helping out with the schedule editor, I recommend having
>   the start-time above the end-time, appearing by default.
>   I'm sorry I'm not able to help with coding.

I agree, the current look is a bit busy. I think a careful application
of CSS should be enough to significantly tidy it up though.


> * Event dates are shown in their own little box at the beginning of
>   event posts. It should be possible to choose whether this box appears or
>   not. Especially when used with the default Wordpress template I find the
>   multitude of dates confusing ('posted by nn on date', then the box with
>   more dates). A nice bonus would be the possibilty to edit the appearance
>   of the box!

Well, strictly you can turn them off, by adding a call to...
  remove_filter('the_content','ec3_filter_the_content');
...in your header. You could also set the class to "display:none" in your CSS.

I agree that the current look is nasty. I especially hate the
"float:left" - for a very short post it causes the box to drop down and
interfere with the post below. Ugh!

You CAN edit it by writing better CSS for it - it's a straightforward
table. I made the HTML as standard as possible to make it easy to
restyle. If you manage to improve it, then please share the fruits with
the rest of us.


> * Another bonus would be the ability of repeating events, daily, weekly,
>  semi-weekly, monthly, yearly.

Yep. It's right there on the to-do list!

-Alex

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