Multiple Calendars

[Carlos]

We are in need of a calendar/event system that can support multiple calendars. Using it for a preschool – each classroom the teacher can post. We then want to setup a members only area for parents. Each parent would have permission to only view the calendar assigned to them for the classroom their kid is in.

Does your calendar support multiple calendars to do this?

Also – is there a way a parent can subscribe to the calendar so when an event is posted – they are auto-notified?

Please advise and thanks.

Carlos

[Leah]

Hi Carlos,

Thanks for getting in touch. The plugin does not support multiple calendars by default. However, you can achieve a similar effect by using categories. For example, each classroom could be it’s own event category. Then you can call a calendar with the events from that category, and it will effectively show as a separate calendar. Hopefully, you could then do some custom coding or use a third party plugin so that users (parents) only had access to one category of events.

At this time there is no way to subscribe to a particular calendar or category, but I really like the idea. I’d love to have you submit it in our UserVoice forum so we’ll consider adding it in a future release. In the meantime, you’d probably need to use a third party plugin and/or some custom code to get this to work.

I’m sorry I couldn’t be of more help, but hopefully that at least answered your questions. You might want to download the free plugin, The Events Calendar, and play around with that a bit. Let me know if I answer any other questions.

Cheers,
Leah

[hlchia]

One way is to organize your posts into classroom categories and let parents subscribe to the classroom categories, they can be informed of updates via RSS to Email.

Then you use a dynamic sidebar solution like woo sidebar (http://wordpress.org/plugins/woosidebars/), and follow the suggestion of Leah to organize events into classroom categories too. This way, each classroom post will display their associating calendar events in the sidebar.

Whenever there is a new classroom-specific event, just create a new post to briefly talk about the event and put it in the correct classroom category. In this way, parents who subscribed to the classroom category will be notified of the event. When they visit the post from the email, they will see the class-specific events in the sidebar.

Here’s a tutorial on how to allow users to subscribe to categories in wordpress
http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-allow-users-to-subscribe-to-categories-in-wordpress/

Regards
Nathan Chia
suntze.com

[Leah]

Thanks hlchia!

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