Experiencing memory problems or timeouts ? Check the following: Are your default wordpress and php memory settings up to handling all that you have added to the site? Over time, as you add change themes, and add plugins, your wordpress setup starts needing more and more memory. Sometimes the last plugin added is the one … Continue reading Memory Problems or Timeouts ?
The dangers in choosing an events plugin without knowing whether it properly supports timezones and daylight saving. The developer may not have needed daylight saving for his country, but if you have daylight saving, or your users are intentional / across time zones, it is very important. Even if a developer has timezone support, will he/she have dealt with recurring events properly (where event recurs in one timezone, but is displayed in another… )
Guarantee and Limitation of Liability While much testing is done on a variety of sites and with a variety of data, there is no guarantee that any plugin will work seamlessly on your specific installation. You are responsible for testing the integration. While support and assistance and advice is often provided, there is no guarantee … Continue reading Terms and Conditions
Update 3.3 of amr-events
Simple events can be imported into amr events using a csv file and third party plugins that are capable of importing into post_meta data.
Ics Specification RFC 5545 RFC 5545 Ical Specifications (replaced 2445) kanzaki.com’s easier to read selected RFC5545 Wikipedia overview (fairly handy) CalConnectSM, The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium iCal Clients Recurrence Rules Interoperability Matrix Ical Requirements (the shoulds, musts, and must not) Ics (Icalendar) Validators: These are helpful but not necessarily complete. They have been described by … Continue reading Ics Guides & Resources
Table widths and css Tables are wonderful – they expand beautifully and naturally to fit your content, but sometimes that same content can make the table do weird things. Please be sure to test your css in your theme with representative content. The plugin tries to deal with some of the problems that occur. For example long … Continue reading Table css, overlapping or disappearing sidebars
The challenges
Slow server? Ics refresh problems too frequent? In version 4.0.24 of amr-ical-events-list, the default http timeout in wordpress can be extended for ics fetches. 5 is the wp default. Note: using a large number may mean that your calendar page will be slow when it is time to refresh the ics files. Consider the cache … Continue reading External ics files timing out?
Discussion on ways to add custom fields to events.