Importing iCal/RSS Feeds

[Tim Lemons]

Is there any way to import an existing iCal/RSS Feed into your plugin and then have that show on our website?

I hate the way our church software ical/RSS Feed displays and was hoping to to buy your pro plugin to make it look better but really didn’t want to have to recreate events. Does that make sense?

[Caroline]

Hi there! Thanks so much for stopping by and checking out our plugins! 🙂

As it turns out, you’re in luck–we offer an iCal Importer add-on for The Events Calendar that does just what you’re looking to do here! You can pair this add-on with either our free The Events Calendar plugin or Events Calendar PRO, depending on what features you’re looking to utilize on your site. I’d encourage you to take a look at all three products to see what functionality is supported, and let me know if you should have any questions. I’d be happy to assist!

Thanks again, and please don’t hesitate to follow up if there’s anything else I can help with!

[Tim Lemons]

Great! Exactly what I was hoping for. I’m curious what my calendar data would look like in events calendar pro coming from our ical feed. Any chance I can test this before I purchase?

I’m definitely going to purchase pro – considering the facebook event importer as well so might go with the ical bundle.

My other question is it possible (without PHP knowledge) to change the word Venue to Campus?

[Caroline]

Awesome–glad it looks like it might be a good match! We don’t currently have any means of allowing customers to demo iCal imports before purchasing, but we do offer a very permissive 30-day refund policy on all of our products, so you’re more than welcome to try our plugins and return any that aren’t a great fit for your setup. 🙂

And to answer your second question, yes, you most certainly can! We have a snippet made for exactly this purpose documented in our Knowledgebase; just grab the code, fill in the terms you’d like to use in the appropriate places, and paste it into your theme’s functions.php file. We’ll be happy to help you here on the forums if you should run into any issues with implementing!

I hope that helps! Let me know if you should have any other questions!

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