{"id":1012420,"date":"2015-10-07T11:27:45","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T18:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/filter-bar-ical-importer\/"},"modified":"2015-10-23T07:05:04","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T14:05:04","slug":"filter-bar-ical-importer","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/filter-bar-ical-importer\/","title":{"rendered":"Filter Bar &amp; iCal Importer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello EC team,<\/p>\n<p>We built a site for our local parks department recently and used EC Pro, the Filter Bar and iCal importer to build their calendar.<br \/>\nWe almost went with another plugin, but the designer spent time using this one so we went ahead and bought the licenses.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, we have some regrets. The iCal importer seems to always have issues auto-updating, the Filter Bar doesn&#8217;t filter, and the venues it pulls in are repetitive. They basically need to be able to control it all through Google Calendars.<br \/>\nThe only way I see that happening is if Events Calendar can also pull in image attachments and place it as the featured image.<\/p>\n<p>So first question is, can you tell what&#8217;s wrong with the iCal importer as to why it won&#8217;t regualrly import? (It ran the first time)<br \/>\nSecond, why isn&#8217;t the filter bar filtering?<br \/>\nThird, is this plugin viable for what they need, or should we look elsewhere?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1012420","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Filter Bar &amp; iCal Importer -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/filter-bar-ical-importer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Filter Bar &amp; iCal Importer -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hello EC team, We built a site for our local parks department recently and used EC Pro, the Filter Bar and iCal importer to build their calendar. 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