Calendar Events
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Why, oh why can we not get a built-in calendar widget? Those of us paying for commercial wordpress so we can keep everything in one place should not have to use a third party calendar. It’s a bit ridiculous that there are widgets available in wordpress.org but not in the commercial version. Makes us wonder what we are actually paying for…
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Use the Eventbrite theme or widget.
Whether you’re paying or not, what WordPress.com offers is excellent security. That’s why you can’t use plugins and so on. It’s a tradeoff. You have to decide what’s worth it to you.
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@raincoaster – not helpful at all; the whole point to this is a single point of entry. If we have to use Eventbrite or Google Calendar or something else, that’s utterly defeated the concept of keeping it simple for the folks updating the information. Now they have to go to two places. Mindboggling that people can’t understand that.
Seems to me having investigated Eventbrite that they and WordPress are in bed together, hence why WordPress.com lacks its own calendar widget…
WordPress.com folks — read your forums; there are dozens and dozens and dozens of people asking for this widget; start listening to your customers!
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You get what you pay for – nothing more and nothing less.
And, can’t buy what’s not for sale.
If you paid for domain mapping then that’s what you get.
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Note: Premium Themes that are licensed for WordPress.com use only cannot be transferred to self-hosted WordPress.org sites. http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/premium-themes/ You contact the theme designer to ask for a version that will run on wordpress.org software.
WordPress.com and WordPress.org are completely separate.
http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/1. Hire a web host http://wordpress.org/hosting/
2. Set up a WordPress.org install and equip it with a theme and plugins.
http://wordpress.org/themes/
http://wordpress.org/plugins/3. Export your content out of your WordPress.com blog http://en.support.wordpress.com/export/ and import it into the install.
4. Purchase a site redirect upgrade from wordpress.com
http://en.support.wordpress.com/site-redirect/ or if you have domain mapping then update the nameservers http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/domain-management/5. Transfer subscribers and stats. See http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/moving-your-subscribers/
6. Set your wordpress.com blog visibility to private. To change blog visibility to private go to > Settings > Reading scroll to Blog Visibility and choose option 3 . See the guide here http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/
Alternatively you can purchase a Guided Transfer and Staff will do the move and set up for you http://en.support.wordpress.com/guided-transfer/
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True but he already paid $75.00 for Modern News and may be past the deadline to get a refund for it.
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@timethief – Actually we didn’t pay $75 for Modern News; we paid the $300 for commercial wordpress.com.
The problem with the eventbrite theme/widget is that the calendar requires interfacing with Eventbrite which is a 3rd party system. It is not wholly contained within wordpress.com.
I just look at the widgets that <i>are</i> available, and can’t fathom why an event calendar (that doesn’t require a 3rd party interface, be it Eventbrite or Google calendar) isn’t a standard widget.
And there seems to be a lot of people wanting one.
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