various Events input and output

[Simon]

Dear Support,

Is the following possible if I use theeventscalendar pro and the ical importer?

Input
Various iCal calendars and manual input
Output
– 1 website and Shoutem App complete set of events
– a number of (wordpress) websites a subset of the events

Thank you for your reply,

Warm regards,

Simon

[Brook]

Howdy Simon,

I would love to help you clarify this.

Various iCal calendars and manual input

This is certainly possible.

1 website and Shoutem App complete set of events

All of those iCal feeds and manually input events will appear on 1 website. I am not familiar with the Shoutem App, but if it is reading from the website then it will be reading all of those events.

a number of (wordpress) websites a subset of the events

This is where things get a little tricky. This is certainly possible. By default our calendar allows you to divide up your events into categories. Each category has its own set of pages that basically make it function like its own calendar, and can output its own iCal feed. If you need truly multiple WP websites rather than this you could still leverage these categories and their iCal feeds to do what you want. Setup another WP Website elsewhere, have it import whichever iCal categories you need from the main site, and there you go! A completely separate site that pulls from the main one. It will just take a little bit of work to get this setup.

Does that all make sense? Will that sound like it will work for you? Please let me know.

Cheers!

– Brook

[simon]

Hi Brook,
Thank you for your reply.
I installed wordpress and theeventscalendar plugin. I added a few categories and events.
I would like to put an “category” iCal feed on another wordpress or html page where can i find the ical settings?
Cheers,
Simon

[Brook]

Howdy Simon,

In order to get the iCal feed for a category go visit the category page in question, switch to List view if you’re not already on it, then scroll down to the Export Listed Events link at the bottom. That is your iCal feed for the category, you can feed it into a different calendar.

As it says though it is only showing the listed events, which might only be 20 events or so. You can have it show more events by inserting this snippet into your theme’s functions.php file:

https://gist.github.com/elimn/532aa266f1a74463509b

Paste that following snippet at the top of the functions.php file. Replace the opening “<?php” with this snippet, as this snippet includes that opening tag.

As you have probably noted that snippet says it adds a new URL for you to visit to get an entire years worth of events, rather than just 20. So if your regular URL is:

http://example.com/events/category/category-name/list/?ical=1&tribe_display=list

Then you would want to add &year-feed to the end of it like this:

http://example.com/events/category/category-name/list/?ical=1&tribe_display=list&year-feed

And that will give you more than just 20 events.

Does that all make sense? Will that work for you? Please let me know.

Cheers!

– Brook

[simon]

Hi Brook,

I have done the following:

1. visited the category page
2. switch to List view
3. scroll down to the Export Listed Events link at the bottom.
4. clicked on the link and I have two option open in program or save.
5. I saved the file <name><number>.ics

But how can feed this into a different calendar?
e.g. if I go to ical google calendar I can copy/paste an URL

Thank you for your reply,
Simon

[Brook]

Howdy Simon,

Just copy the file’s URL. Usually this involves right clicking on the link to the file and clicking something like “Copy Link Address”. The exact name and steps will vary based on your web browser and operating system.

If you need further support mind logging in with the account you used to purchase the iCal Importer ? Then I can move this topic from the presales forum to the support one. Cheers!

– Brook

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