A few things I learnt

Hi all,

never desesperate! (this should be the name of this new release…)
I had some time to play a little bit with my plugin for wordpress and here is the result: a brand new beta 2 version. Not only there is some code cleaning but I had 2 new featues:

• widget: now ical4wp is also working with the sidebar widget system and therefore you can avoid any edition of wordpress php code. You want to know more about widget system? Let’s go to the widgets creators website,
• hCalendar microformat: now when you show a post containing event metadata, it will show some basic information on the post view as microformat data (meaning readable and computer readable). Want to know more about microformats? Ok, here is the website of microformats.

get it now while it’s hot!

I have also setup a forum to better exchange request/bug/questions.

Hi all,

I found some time to work a bit on ical4WP and I thought I could release a new version. Do not expect a lot of new features but rather some bugfixes:

• Google Calendar integration is now working. It means that you can add a ical4wp calendar into your Google Calendar in one click. Yes it works!
• I clean up the CSS file for the client side (not admin but the blog itself) to make it relevant,
• I remove all javascript files inclusion into the client side to make it lighter, you now have just one css file in the header (<1k). It did not make sens to include: Prototype, effects from Scriptaculous and event:Selectors just for the select form! It was probably around 60k of download, what a waste of bandwidth! (my hosting company should thank me…). I wrote just a few line of inline-javascript inside the select form element. However, those library are still in used in the admin area.
• Again, thanks to Roger, we now order events in the list of events.
• I separate the title and the content of each part on the client side due to some XHTML issues in some WordPress theme. You can now but the title of each area (e.g. Upcoming Events, List of Calendar) in your prefered XHTML tag, in the documentation by default I suggest h2 tag. The consequence of this change is that you hvae to modify as well your sidebar.php file.

…DOWNLOAD IT NOW…

That’s it for the time being guys. I did not touch yet the admin area of ical4wp. You can see a demo on the left side of this blog and feel free to visit iCal4WP home page for more details about how to use it.
Do not forget that we have now a bug tracking system flyspray, where you can post bugs AND/OR features request.

Finally, I am back, my laptop is alive and I published again my wordpress plugin: iCal4WP. I took this opportunity to fix a bug thanks to Roger (sorry I could not get the widget code yet). I plan to be back on the development soon to release a new version before Christmas.
Finally I put my own plugin on this blog as a demo (at least you can see the client side of it) and I start to use Flyspray to follow-up bugs and feature request, you can access it at http://www.innovativemap.com/flyspray/.

Hi, I want first to thank all of those who posted comments on my first announce for iCal4WP my plugin for WordPress. I wish to have more time to answer to each of you and update iCal4WP to a next version with some bugs correction. Unfortunately I have to delay my desire due to some work on others projects: a GIS solution for Utilities and a billing system for small utilities, both web-based. I will talk about those developments later here since they are linked to open-source world too.
Be patient, I do not give up my small plugin! Anyone want to help?