Buddyvents – New Events Plugin
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Hey All,
last sunday I found out that a recent project needed an events plugin. Being not too happy (for various not really relevant reasons) with the current solutions I quickly whipped one up. You can have a look here: http://test.shabushabu.eu/events/.
Every member can publish an event, but if you’re also a group admin you can attach an event to one of your groups. Coordinates get automatically geocoded from the location. Event activity gets displayed on the events page and an event can be edited and features an overview page of all members.
The messages component is needed as that handles all the invitations. It also needs the friends plugin for the autocompletion to invite members to work.
There’s a bit more so if you want to have a play, go ahead…
Here’s a feature list:
* Events can be created by any user
* Events can be attached to a group, if the event creator is a group admin
* Event Privacy that includes group integration
* Activity stream integration
* Friends component integration (used for invitations)
* Event comments
* Events search
* RSS Feeds for groups and users
* Geocoded locations for events
* Google Maps v3 overview of all events
* Adds basic information like address to groups
* Sidebar Widget
* Support for BP-Moderation
* Calendar integration
* Restrict number of attendees
* Recurrent events (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly)
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Just added geo coordinates to the RSS Feeds and attendance buttons to the calendar popups. Now I’m thinking about combining the calendar view with the directory/my-events view and leave it up to the user to switch between the two, with the list view being the default.
What do ya think?
Off to bed
Good morning @travel-junkie, I did some testing…
1. Create a hidden group was no problem. But I couldn’t create an event for the group.
After submit, I get the following error message and all field values has been lost. So need to fill in all again, but I couldn’t find out what I did wrong…
Error Message: “Your event could not be published. Please try again!”2. Event Start Time: Is a select box for 30 minutes steps. But I need 10 minutes steps for my events. Would be great to have an admin option to decide the steps or just type it in.
Please have a look at http://plugins.jquery.com/project/anytime. It’s a Any+Time™ Datepicker/Timepicker AJAX Calendar widget with optional TimeZone support.
Would be great you use this one.3. Repeat this event every…
Would be great to include this. Most of the events will repeat weekly, or monthly, by year…
For example: Repeat this event every 7 day’s until 21.12.2012
I’m looking forward to the next week :-Sven
@Svenl77
Anytime looks good, but the license means that I can’t use it. There’s lots of filters though, so you can change the 30 min interval to 10 min really easy.
It was really late yesterday, when I put the dev version online and I hardly did any testing. Should be easy to debug. It’s only one small function that does the group checking…Hmm, I could just recreate an event using wp_schedule_event. This could be a lot easier than I thought
I’ll look into it, but won’t promise that recurrent events make it into tomorrows release!@guigoz
The po file can be downloaded from here, so if you want to translate it, then go ahead
http://buddyvents.jobboardr.com/events.poJust added recurrent events (weekly, monthly, yearly). It’s still a bit experimental, though.
@web_art
1. not an error, just a usability problem I’ll fix that.
2. it was a typo in apply_filters and is fixed nowAs for the group contact details. I’ll take those out in a future release and turn it into a separate plugin. I’m building a jobboard plugin as well and that uses the same fields, so in the next big release I’ll be reworking the whole group contact stuff
@guigoz
That’s something for another release, but it’s on the roadmap
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