Freestanding Script (not a plugin)

[ginger]

Hi,

I’m looking for a script like your Events Calendar for a website that’s not running a CMS. Is there a version of this script available that I can purchase that would work on a website without running WordPress?

Thanks!

ginger

[Brook]

Howdy Ginger!

We have talked about building something like that, perhaps as a service. But, at the moment The Events Calendar is only available as a WordPress plugin.

I hope you can find something that works for you. You can run the calendar without a surrounding theme, and then load those pages via an iframe within any website. But that might be too complicated for your goals.

Please let me know if you have any more questions. Cheers!

– Brook

[ginger]

Hi,

Thanks for responding. When you say you can run the calendar without a surrounding theme, do you mean that the mini calendar would be on its own page and I would just use an iframe to insert it into my home page? What about the event “list”? Can that just be incorporated into the page with the mini calendar, and I would just insert that one page via iframe?

Thanks!
ginger

[Brook]

Howdy Ginger,

When you say you can run the calendar without a surrounding theme, do you mean that the mini calendar would be on its own page and I would just use an iframe to insert it into my home page?

What I mean is that you can make a very easy modification to any of the stock WordPress themes that would cause the calendar to show up on a page without any other WordPress stuff being visible. Here are the steps:

1. Create a new Page Template by copy/pasting an existing one. Delete the header, footer, and sidebar from this template.
2. In your WordPress admin go to Events > Settings > Display, and select the new template you created. Now when you visit the front end calendar the only thing visible is the calendar. You can switch between list/month views, click through to any event, etc. and never see anything WordPress like in your travels.
3. So, now you can embed that calendar page as an iframe anywhere on your existing site.

It’s a bit of a workaround, but it works.

Please let me know if you have any more questions. Cheers!

– Brook

[ginger]

Oh, ok. I understand now. Thanks so much for the detailed instructions. I may give it a try if I can’t find another script.

ginger

[Brook]

You are welcome! I hope you do find a good solution. If I knew of any outside of WordPress I would definitely mention one, but I have not personally used anything enough to recommend one.

Cheers!

– Brook

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