google calendar embedding

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    rjp49 · Member ·

    Google Calendar to Word Press Twenty Ten

    I certainly hope you can assist me. For my first time I am trying to add our google-calendar to Word Press Twenty Ten on:
    http://stfrancisbluehillme.wordpress.com/

    I have followed directions on http://en.support.wordpress.com/google-calendar/
    without success.

    Embedding a Google Calendar into your Sidebar
    1. Follow steps 1-5 above and copy the shortcode from step 5.
    2. Go to your Widgets page (Appearance -> Widgets from your blog’s Dashboard).
    3. Add a Text Widget to your sidebar.
    4. Add a title to your widget (if you want one).
    5. Paste the shortcode into the text widget.
    6. Press the Save button and go to your blog and admire your awesome new calendar.

    When I post the following “short code”

    <p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″><iframe src=”<span class=”s2″>https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=stfrancisbluehillme%40gmail.com&ctz=America/New_York</span&gt;” style=”border: 0″ width=”800″ height=”600″ frameborder=”0″ scrolling=”no”></iframe></span></p>

    And save — it converts to:
    <p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″>http://ahref=</span></p>

    What shows up on the home page and beyond in the secondary sidebar:
    St. Francis Calendar of events
http://ahref=



    And nothing more. What might I be doing wrong? Thank you in advance.

    Robert Publicover

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    dannywellman · Member ·

    Hello there!
    There seems to be some extra tags in your code.
    Can you try to paste the following on your blog and see if it works?

    <iframe src=”https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=stfrancisbluehillme%40gmail.com&ctz=America/New_York” style=”border: 0″ width=”800″ height=”600″ frameborder=”0″ scrolling=”no”></iframe>

    Let me know if that works for you, please.

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    rjp49 · Member ·

    Thank you Danny, sorry that I couldn’t get to this until now. Frozen pipes. I don’t know how to add a screenshot here to show you what I got.
    You might be able to see it by going to:
    stfrancisbluehillme.wordpress.com

    Not sure what this message means but I would like to get rid of it, too:

    “Events from one or more calendars could not be shown here because you do not have the permission to view them.”

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    dannywellman · Member ·

    Robert,
    Sorry about the frozen pipes! That is not fun at all.

    As far as your calendar goes, I think you’re getting that message because you don’t have the sharing set up correctly for that particular calendar. Do you have administrator rights that Google calendar? If so make sure you do follow the number 2 in the instructions.

    Click the Share this Calendar tab and make your calendar public by checking the checkboxes next to Share this calendar with others & Make this calendar public. Don’t forget to press the Save button when you are done.

    Just a warning: If you enable sharing, that calendar will be searchable in any Google queries. Make sure you’re OK with that calendar information being out in the web before sharing it publicly.

    Let me know if that works or not for you, please.

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    raincoaster · Member ·

    You need to make the calendar PUBLIC. That’s the problem. Change the settings at Google.

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    rjp49 · Member ·

    Thank you both. I will try those things in the morning. We already have the calendar on the old web site, so sharing shouldn’t be an issue. The other issue was the strange look of the calendar on the page. It was all scrunched up. But now it is not displaying at all. Am I asking too much for the secondary widget area? Just when I think I have this figured out, I realize how little I know. I do appreciate your help.

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    rjp49 · Member ·

    The calendar did finally show up in the widget but you could no see what events were on any particular day. So, I simply created a page with the full calendar and added it to the menu.

    http://stfrancisbluehillme.wordpress.com/st-francis-calendar/

    Thank you for all of your help. I learned a lot from you.

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    rjp49 · Member ·

    Ooops! Now the calendar has stopped appearing. For several days the embed of the St Francis Google Calendar worked very well on the new WordPress site. Now all of a sudden I can not get it to come up. I can get to the calendar and see it when I go to it outside of WordPress.
    I went back and redid the embed and the saved text result looks the same to me:
    [googleapps domain="www" dir="calendar/embed" query="src=stfrancisbluehillme%40gmail.com&ctz=America/New_York" width="800" height="600" /]
    The Google Calendar appears to still be public. Any suggestions?

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    manchcomch · Member ·

    The same thing has happened to me as well. I haven’t checked this page of my website for a few months, so I don’t know when it stopped working.

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