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.
@Harry Not at present no. As ever there’s a massive list of things we need to look at for V2 which is probably 40% finished right now.
@Tracy B No worries Tracy, it happens all too easily online! As for your site then I’m not sure what’s up, but it is likely something to do with how your site is coded. If the plugin works in a WP vanilla setup then logically problem must lie with how your site has been put together, or at least there’s a problem with your site and the event plugin.
There’s not a lot I can do to help with this one from here I am afraid. You may need a PHP person to take a look under the hood.
(I just re-read my comment/request for help below and dang, it sounded snotty. :-/ Didn’t mean it to be. I really do appreciate the help you so generously give, Mr. Seth. :) )
I have looked…but how do you add an event to a single page? Per your plug-in description “Display event listings on a page of your choice”. We have used the plug-in for a few months but now need additional flexibility. Also, when initially setup the plug-in generated it’s own page appropriately labeled “Event Calendar” but this was in conjunction with the sidebar widget.
Thanks.
Very good job, what is missing is to keep month from which you come, for ex., I go to the page of events in april but the calendar shows me the curent months – august. You have to have posibility to set months.
Hi Seth:
“@Tracy B I’m not sure on this. Have you been through the steps I have suggested to Kim?”
I have now. With all plugins disabled and the Default theme chosen, I still get that error message. I tried upgrading to 3.01 just for the hell of it – to try and erase whatever it is I might have changed that causes a conflict – but that didn’t help. I tried it on a vanilla install and yes, it worked, but what does that really tell me? Where do I start looking for the conflict?
Hi
Thanks for your help. I did indeed have a plugin conflict but quickly decided to stay with Kino and have found an alternative for my slideshows.
In Kino, is there anyway I can add a small image to draw attention to a particular event?
Harry
Hi Ali. Currently that’s not a feature if the plugin, and it’s not something that’ll be out in V2 either I’m afraid. If you need it in and want us to code it then we can do so, but it’ll be work we charge for. Contact me if you are interested in this option: http://www.kinocreative.co.uk/contact.
Hi Guys
Sorry to bother you yet again!
Just wanted to ask if there was a quick fix for adding links in the event description?
I really need this feature, have tried to come up with something myself but have had no success.
Thanks in advance
@Tasha Can you drop a link to your site please?
Also I’ll update you about enabling non-admins to add events soon as if it happens it’ll bein V2 of the plugin which is being developed right now.
Hi Guys,
Thanks for the great plugin. I am using it with WP3. I have a couple of questions. When I log into the site as an editor the link to the events plugin isn’t available. Is there a way that I can make the event creation page available to editors?
The other question is about the widget part of the plugin. I have the widget in the right hand sidebar. When I have my web browser stretch to the full width of the screen, the hover text boxes changes to having one word per line. That in itself isn’t too bad, but some of the events in the calendar have unavoidably long names and the colouring of the text box background abruptly changes back to white. Is there a way to either force the hover text box to have more than one word per line or to extend the background colour?
Any help is appreciated.
Tasha
Hi Seth, I am also wondering if it is possible for Authors to add events to the calender. If it is not possible to edit the settings of your calendar, is there a plugin you could recommend?
Many thanks
Fiona
@Harry
Sorry to say that you’ve comne across a plugin conflict. This happens a faitr bit in WP, and you basically either hack the code until they both work, or choose which plugin is the most important to you and find a replacement for the other.
Hi
I have set up the events calendar and it is working just as I want it to but it has knocked out my fotoslide plugin slideshows.
Any suggestions anyone? If possible, please don’t be to technical with your reply as I am very new to all of this!
Thanks
@ Aldrian
Ah ha, well it’s something to consider for V3 further down the line, but it’s not on the cards for now. We will be adding the option to put links into individual events very soon though.
However, if it’s something you need then we can code it in but we’ll need to charge. Let me know if that’s something you’d like a quote for.
I mean like, by clicking the event in the calendar, it will link us to anywhere we want to. I want to configure that link.
@Seth
Yes, renaming one event does the trick.
Any quick fix for this?
@Ali try renaming one and let me know – I am not sure myself.
Does each event need to have a unique name? I have two events that appear on two different days at two different locations, yet when I click the links both of them take me to the same event (the one that appears first on the calendar)
Is there a fix for this? Or am I doing something wrong?
Thanks in advance
:-)
@ Aldrian We are releasing a new version soon with linking enabled from within posts if that is what you mean?
@Kim My advice is always try uninstalling and reinstalling the plugin completely and see if that works. Also try deactivating other plugins. You should also try it on a vanilla install of WordPress. If it works there (as we know it does) then you know the problem is with the coding of your own site.
@Tracy B I’m not sure on this. Have you been through the steps I have suggested to Kim?
As seen in previous comments, please make a guide on how to make the events link to a post. I myself also cannot make it working. The setting only specify the page in which we want it to link to, but it links to the page, not the specific post, so it shows all the past events as well. I want it to point just to one event.
Can you give a suggestion about this?
Okay, it’s not working after all. The Events Calendar and Search end up in the same sidebar box. Please take a look. http://yourworkdoneright.com
Thanks!
I’m having the same error message as Ali, specifically:
“Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /home/sites/site_url/public_html/wp-content/plugins/kino-event-calendar-plugin/rss_php.php on line 17″
Would love to try out the plugin (to replace another, less helpful one) so please let me know I could do to fix this. :)
Never mind. It appears to be working fine now.
I have been having difficulty using your plugin in WordPress 3.0. When I upgraded to WordPress 3.0, the Events Calendar in the sidebar disappeared. I tried moving it to a different location in the order and the title “Events Calendar” and the link to your site appears inside one of the other sidebar boxes instead of on it’s own. The site I am currently trying to manipulate is http://yourworkdoneright.com.
Thanks!
@Braaad
Morning Braaaad. I’ve been aware of that issues for a little while now. Unfortunately it’s not part of the V2 plan to revamp this as we’ve only seen a very few calendars with multiple events in one day like yours.
I do appreciate that it’s something we should look at though, and further down the line it’ll be on the list.
My website has many events on the same day, which causes the event color blocks to stack up vertically in the widget. More than three events on the same day causes the calendar to expand too much- see my linked screen capture. I don’t suppose there’s any way to fix this?
When is the ETA for v2 of the plug-in? It’s a great start, and I’m excited to see your improvements. Thank you.
Hi guys
I have a few questions if anyone could help would appreciate it.
-Is it possible to have different colours for different events?
- Can we display all past events on a page?
- Is it possible to link an event to an article in the website?
Many thanks
@Jim
First of all hold on from hacking about. We’re about to release V2 of the event plugin which comes with time options.
Secondly what conflicts with Superfish? Can you be more specific please?
Terrific plugin. I’m going to hack around in your code to change the time output to dsplay in something other than military time.
Quick note: There is a conflict between this plugin and any use of the superfish navigation or jQuery slider (which includes most themes by Woo or Elegant Themes)… if there’s an easy fix for either of these, feel free to comment!
If possible can the next update have the ability to have the events section point to categories too.
Hi , Thank you for this plug in it’s exactly what we were looking for. A slight suggestion or more a request for the next update would be that we be given a repeat option for events , so that public holidays / national days can self repeat on a yearly basis. Would make this the perfect events calendar and even easier to use. time saving and perfect. Thanks again and i look forward to seeing that in the updates … if possible.
Hi Guys
I have just installed the plugin on wp. 3.0 but when I tried to activate it, I got this error:
Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /home/sites/site_url/public_html/wp-content/plugins/kino-event-calendar-plugin/rss_php.php on line 17
Anybody came across this before or know how I could fix it?
Thanks in advance
If it helps IE gave me this error:
“Webpage error details
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.3; .NET4.0C)
Timestamp: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 01:04:45 UTC
Message: Object doesn’t support this property or method
Line: 96
Char: 4
Code: 0
URI: http://www.jameless.net/rotary/
Message: Object doesn’t support this property or method
Line: 1144
Char: 3
Code: 0
URI: http://www.jameless.net/rotary/wp-content/plugins/kino-event-calendar-plugin/js/calendar.js.php
“
Can I get a URL please?
Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. I just installed a brand new test database and a fresh install of WP 3.0.1 and the same issue occurred. I tried a few different themes to make sure it wasn’t that and sure enough it is still happening. Any ideas?
@Jamie Can you install the plugin on a clean WP setup and let me know if you’re still having trouble? I suspect there’s an issue with the way you’ve coded your site here, and not hte plugin.
I have an issue that when I add the widget to the site it shows 2 calendars on top of one another. Any help?
Hi Seth. How are you, I would like to ask regarding your event calendar. I would like not to display the TIME in the front page of the calendar. When you Hover it, i don’t want to put the time in their. Please give me advice where to edit it in the PHP file. Coz i cannot find it. thanks
Lloyd
Phil and Seth.
It has worked like this since the beginning. I will go ahead and upgrade to W3 and reinstall the plugin.
I will give you an update once I toy around with this.
Thanks for the suggestions…I will give it a go.
Stephani
Hi Steph,
The only thing that worked for me was to re-install wordpress, my theme & all my backed up posts from the WP database. (doing it in a new folder until its fixed, then moving it back to the main site)
Then all I did was export the Kino Events database and re-import it into the new installation.
Unfortunately its not a very nice workaround but its all I could think of that might work.
I thought something must have gone wrong on the server, but if you have the same problem then it must be something else that caused it..
What happened before yours broke?
or has it been displaying the events like that from the beginning?
Kind Regards
Phil
@ Steph – I’d be inclined to follow Phil’s advice here as the plugin works fine on vanilla WP3 installations. If Phil is still lurking then he may be able to give you some suggestions on this problem.
Hi there. I have the same issue as Phil where the events page lists all the events above the page (not putting into the content area of events page). I am using WordPress 2.8.4.
Any assistance on how to fix this would be much appreciated. I really love the simplicity of this calendar and want to use it but if there is no fix for this, I will have to switch to another calendar plugin.
Many thanks…
Steph
Good news then Phil. A lot of problems like this are down to variations in website coding, hence us showing the plugin to work in a vanilla install of WP.
Hi Seth, I’ve reinstalled the plugin on a local server with wordpress 3 and it is working perfectly now! :)
I suspect some files must have gotten corrupt during the upgrade on the server.
Thank you for your time!
Phil
Thanks for the quick reply Seth!
here’s the link: http://gigzone.co.za/events/
Is there shortcode that I could put on the page instead of selecting which page to use from the settings? (wondering if it would help)
Send me some links so we can see what you mean please. However http://www.toonfood.co.uk is a vanilla WP3 site and it’s not having any problems so I suspect it’s something local to your setup?
Hi,
Been using your plugin for a while now and it has been very useful to me, however after upgrading to WordPress 3 things haven’t been the same.
For some reason when you go to the events page it lists all the events above the page (above the main banner – and not inside the post/page)
First I thought it was some conflict with the theme but it does the same on all themes.
Even tried downgrading wordpress back to 2.9 but it still does the same.
Kind regards
Phil
hi Seth, im using your plugin. but i need to enable the ‘events’ menu enable for editor of site. im a admin. i install the ‘members’ plugin, by justin tadlock, that have a permission content roles, by users. but it doesnt show nothing to kino events. how i can enable this great plugin to editors? can be a suggest for next updates…
thanks!
Well Steve we’ve never had problems with it in those browsers, and it ha been tested, so I’d consider looking closely at how you’re code is written to see if there are problems there instead.
If you look at http://www.toonfood.co.uk you’ll see the calendar in the sidebar. Just this second I checked it in IE8 and it’s working fine. Have a look at that and let me know what you see.