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Kino Events Calendar Plugin for WordPress
The Kino Events Calendar is a simple yet flexible calendar plugin for WordPress. It works as an upgrade to the standard WordPress calendar plugin.
Once installed the calendar will sit in the sidebar. You can also easily select an Events page which shows all current and future events in a logical order. The calendar requires PHP5 to be running on your server.
The admin area enables you to add, edit and remove events quickly and easily, and changing colours is a breeze. The Kino Events Calendar does not use blog posts to handle events but rather lets you add events manually. This flexibility makes integrating the calendar into client sites much more feasible, and the colour changing options allow for simple branding too.
Click the following link to download the Kino Creative Events Calendar Plugin for WordPress.
Instructions
Install the plugin as you would any other WordPress plugin. Once installed you’ll see a new tab in the CMS called “Events”, underneath which are two buttons for Settings and Events.
- Settings - change the colours of the events and select which page you’d like a list of current and future events to be displayed.
- Events - Add the events to the calendar. It’s self explanatory, but make them active if you want them to show up on your website.
Once you have input all the event information you want then go Appearance>Widgets and move the Kino Events widget into the sidebar. Your event calendar is now live!
Features
- Change colours of listed events and their mouse over states on the sidebar calendar
- Add events manually
- Make events active or inactive without the need to delete them
- Display event listings on a page of your choice
Demo
As more sites start using the plugin we’ll demo them here, so let us know if you want us to use your site. For the time being here are the sites that use the plugin:
Disclaimer
The Kino Events Calendar plugin is not officially supported by Kino Creative. By downloading the Kino Events Calendar plugin you agree that you wish to use the selected software and that you will not hold Kino Creative responsible in any way. Download the Kino Events Calendar Plugin means that you have understood and agreed to all the terms and conditions of this disclaimer.
Kino Creative does not take any responsibility and is not liable for any damage caused through use of this plugin, be it indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages (including damages for loss of business, loss of profits, interruption or the like). Kino Creative does not take responsibility for the correct workings of software that has been modified in any way or by their use in ways they weren’t designed for. You must also be aware that as with any other software, bugs could be found in the software that you download. The Kino Events Calendar plugin is distributed on an AS IS basis. By downloading the plugin from Kino Creative, you agree that you have read and understood the product specifications and have assessed that they can be used by you in the way that you require.
Suggestions & Donations
The Kino Events Calendar is a free plugin, but if you find it useful we would appreciate donations! Also please let us know where you are using the plugin, and if you have any suggestions for it going forward.
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is there code I can paste into a sidebar if I am not using widgets?
Thanks
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We have released a major plugin update for WordPress 3.0. I’d suggest that everyone moves to the new thread http://www.kinocreative.co.uk/uncategorized/kino-events-calendar-v2/ for questions and further information.
I saw you updated the plugin to 3.0.1.1 . Thanks a lot for all the hard work! Is there a post or WordPress log file somewhere where we can see what changes have taken place? I truly hope it has been extended with multilingual support using Gettext files. I translated quite a bit of text in several PHP en JScript files and won’t upgrade unless there is a great way to translate the English into Dutch and or other languages. Also see my WordPress Forum Post on this.
Thanks again for all the hard work!!
Cheers,
Jasper
Hi, love the calendar, it fulfills our needs well.
We have had some difficulties in placing links into the events though and they don’t seem to work even though hyperlinked and showing before submitting.
Also was wondering if there is a way we could link the events to catergories and / or featured posts as this would be really helpful. The only other suggestion to make this plugin the ultimate calendar would be to allow for a recurrence feature that lets events re-occur on a daily , weekly or yearly basis.
I know its a lot but if these changes make it into the next update I think this would be the definitive event calendar for wordpress and would be happy to make a donation. Cheers , Steve, EAI Shop
just to western european chars.
Can you help me with that?
thank you
Has anyone experienced any problems with this plugin on the latest version of wordpress?
any news? i am waiting to lauch my company’s website!! or else if you can help me to put western european chars displying on the calendar it would be great!
Thank you
strongly waiting for the new version :)
Hi Seth
I know you are busy with the update but I am hoping you will still have time to have a look at the calendar in action on my website as per my email last week.
In the meantime I am looking forward to seeing the update.
Harry
Nice!
We’ll keep thumbs up while being curious ;-)
Thanks for updating this useful plugin.
Announcement!!!!
I’ve just been looking over the updated plugin and it is a seriously improvement. We’re going to be testing it this afternoon, so all being well there’ll be a major upgrade to V2 by the end of today or early next week at the latest.
Hi Harry – can you drop us the URL of the site? I can’t promise to help but I’d like to see what’s going on.
Hi Seth
Sorry to be a pain but can I draw your attention to my comment of 27 August! I would appreciate you help.
Thanks
Harry
@ Sharon – congrats!
@ Emeri – maybe in V2
@Joel – There’s an update being written right now that adds foreign language support through a languages file. That ought to help you out.
V2 is being started on Monday so we are hopefully going to roll it out towards the end of next week.
Hi Seth – cancel that! I just added a new page and it magically updated. My mistake! I love it. Thank you…
Hello Seth. I really like your calendar and I am currently redeveloping my conservation website to include it. I am relatively new to WordPress (embarrasing to admit but I’m a MS FP gal!) and having a few problems with the calendar.
I installed it no worries (easy thanx!), put in 4 events and then added it to the sidebar, with events showing on the “events” page. However, once I loaded it, I realised I had one of the dates wrong. I went into the event edit and changed it no worries there, but the sidebar calendar will not update to reflect the new date (and you can see it has updated in the events page). I ended up deleting the event completely and it still wont go. I re-entered it as new date and then entered a new event completely, but the sidebar will not update or change. I have removed the widget from the sidebar, changed it over to the left and then back to the right, but it will not update (though events list will). Please help me!! I have spent 2 days struggled with sidebar event calendars and I’m so very close!!
Cheers, Sharon.
Hey there,
Thanks for a great plugin! I was wondering if you noticed that any user role other than an Administrator role is not able to edit the events? Do you think that this is something that would be implemented in the next version of this plugin? I think it would be great if you could assign an Editor or Author to be able to add/delete/edit events.
Thanks.
Hi,
I write in portuguese, so my events get “funny” when shown @ the calendar… i guess the problem is the charset. How can i fix this?
Hi again
I have the Kino widget in my page sidebar and the calendar works very well. However when I click on “see all events” any text I already have on a page which has a sidebar disappears when the event list displays. This would be ok if there was an “unsee all events” to reverse this action.
I am not sure if this is a feature of Kino or not but it is causing me a problem as I can now only use one page with a sidebar to avoid this “disappearing act” happening on every page.
Can you advise please. Thanks in advance.
Harry
@Seth thanks for the reply.
Hi Guys
A quick suggetion for the next version – could it be possible to have some sort of pagination on the events page? At the moment if you have a lot of events the page is extremely long!
Also, is it possible to display the past events on a different page in future?
Many thanks
@Byron You can select the page the events show up on in Settings. There’s a drop down box there which displays all the pages in your site – select which page you want the calendar events to appear under.
@Ali Regarding links in the description then no, it’s not part of the plugin as it stands. For anything that isn’t default functionality then you can either contact us and we’ll figure out a cost for putting it in, or you can hack the PHP and make it work as you intend.
@Bizimi Cheers, that’s a good idea!