Event Calendar for Wordpress (Thesis theme)

Hey Leila, thanks for sharing that find. Looks interesting. I know that I have come across quite a few different one's, but have yet to find one i really like.

And yes, will keep this one in mind!

The problem I see with the Keithmillington solution is that it relies on posts not actually being posted until the scheduled time, which is the time of the event. All published posts are in the past and only scheduled posts are in the future.

It seem to me that you could add a custom field to your posts called Event Date and then you could sort the posts by category and Event date. That way you could have a page for This month's gigs, one for Last months gigs and one for next months gigs.

Since you're a Thesis user you could try asking on the forum if someone has a suggestion for the code. It seems like a relatively simple problem that someone with sufficient skill could generate quickly

You might consider googling "sort posts by custom field". There are a number of entries dealing with analogous problems and it seems like a simple query_posts routine could give you the desired result.

Are you using Thesis 1.6? Do you use the Thesis Open Hook plugin? Since Thesis doesn't have a "categories" page template how are you telling it which "page" you want to do this on?

OK, I've got it figured out. Although it doesn't use Open Hook. It involves creating a custom template in your custom_functions.php file.

You can see it working at http://www.test.byobwebsite.com/ Home shows the post that is published Unpublished Future Events shows the posts that are scheduled to be published on the date & time of the event Upcoming Events shows the default behavior of a page that displays only posts of a certain category - in this case the "upcoming events" category.

I'm going to make a little video on how to do this today and post it to my site. I'll also email you the code for you to paste into your custom_functions.php file.

Here we go - I've posted a 3 video tutorial with source code on my blog. http://www.byobwebsite.com The videos are available in wide screen and HD. If you don't want to subscribe to the site just click the full screen button on the smaller video and you'll get it full screen HD. Otherwise you can go to my YouTube chanel at http://www.youtube.com/user/byobwebsite.

It was a fun problem to solve. Feel free to ask me any follow up questions. I'm glad to help.

Thanks Rick for providing these links.

Hey it was my pleasure. I enjoyed working the problem and it made a great blog post.