Being based in the United States, I tend to have a somewhat skewed perspective on where people are using ICS Calendar. I do know that I tend to receive the largest number of support requests from users in the European Union… especially from Germany and the Netherlands. So I knew those countries had a lot…
If you’ve updated your ICS Calendar installation to version 9.8.0 and received either of these error messages… …or something similar to… Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Class ‘R34NoNo’ not found in /wp-content/plugins/ics-calendar/ics-calendar.php on line 89 …or if you received an automated email from your site notifying you of an issue with ICS Calendar, first off, my…
No, I’m not talking about antiquated web technologies or even Queen’s soundtrack to the campy 1980 sci-fi film. I’m talking about speed! While working on numerous ICS Calendar site updates this week, it became apparent to me that the site was sluggish. I knew the problem was the server it was on, and I had…
Up to now, sites that make use of the Block Editor (a.k.a. Gutenberg) only had one option for adding an ICS Calendar to the content of a page or a post: using a shortcode, either manually entering all of the options, or copy-pasting the ID-based shortcode of a Calendar Builder saved calendar. Now ICS Calendar…
As a developer, documentation can always be one of the most difficult tasks to accomplish. It’s absolutely critical to help users of complex software, but it can also be one of the most tedious aspects of the project. After all, why write about what you’ve already built, when you could be building something new instead?…
Big things are still underway for version 4.0 of ICS Calendar Pro, which will introduce an integration of the FullCalendar.io library for a whole new way of displaying an integrated, interactive multi-view calendar. But don’t worry… the current set of views aren’t going anywhere! In fact, today’s release of version 3.15 introduces a new view,…
Today I’m preparing to release version 3.13.0 of ICS Calendar Pro, which will be incorporating a handful of changes from ICS Calendar 9.5.0 and beyond, including the new stickymonths option. A big part of adding features to ICS Calendar Pro is making sure they’re accounted for in the Calendar Builder, and that means translating blocks…
A lot has been happening this week here at ICS Calendar HQ. This is the first week where ICS Calendar has started to feel like my full-time job. (Hint: It most definitely is not. Yet.) Version 9.0.0 was just released 6 days ago, and now we’re already up to 9.3.4! That may be due in…
Version 9.1.0 is out and it includes three new shortcode attributes! Individual event .ics downloads This is been a frequently requested feature, and now it’s here! Add eventdl=”true” to your shortcode to add a clickable download link to each event. This will download a customized .ics file containing only the selected event for users to…
ICS Calendar is fundamentally a tool for non-developer WordPress admins to have an easy way to display their external calendars seamlessly in WordPress sites. But many developers have also found it useful as a tool they can extend for their own purposes. As its usage grows and new use cases come to my attention, I…
