Implementing a calendar grid shortcode

[Hector]

I’ve been reading in the forum that it is not possible to show a calendar grid using shortcodes, since i am a little stubborn i decided to implement my own shortcode and think i accomplished it.

first i created the shortcode in my functions.php with the following parameters: cat, month and year
code for functions.php —> http://pastie.org/3452109

then i copied the table.php file to the events directory in my theme and changed the code in the begining with this —> http://pastie.org/3452196

so far it is working on my site (localserver) without problems. I know the code is still rough around the edges and there is a lot of room for improvement but i would like to hear what is your experience with this code and how does it work on your site.

[Rob]

Hey Hector. Interesting; glad to see you’re the type who is willing to take a stab at it. Not sure about this myself or the implications of using it, but let me see if a dev on our end can take a look and share any insights. Thanks man!

[Mike]

I’d *really* like to see a shortcode for the calendar, it’s too inflexible the way it currently is.

[Rob]

Hector: thanks again for this. Solid work. I had our dev review it and he can confirm that this is functional, though we would definitely caution against using a global to store the event array. We’d advise that anyone using this code approach with caution unless you have a real solid understanding of WordPress dev and what the code here will do. That being said Hector’s tip here has got us talking on how we could better approach this in our code down the road.

Mike: appreciate the note here. Official shortcode support isn’t planned for the 2.1 release, but as mentioned above we have seen an uptick in requests for it so it’s a conversation we’re currently having. Any votes for it thrown into the “Feature Request” thread (https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/events-calendar-pro-feature-requests/) will also certainly be given some bearing.

Thanks again, guys! Let me know what else we can do.

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