Plug in calendar

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  communityassoc · Member · Nov 27, 2012 at 11:39 am

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  I’d love to have a calendar for the blog – but can’t find one in the existing plug-ins on wordpress.com. As we can’t use external plug-ins, do you think it would be possible to use one from the wordpress.org downloads? The one I like is Ajax Event Calendar but to be fair any good functional calendar would do.

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  communityassoc · Member · Nov 27, 2012 at 11:40 am

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  I’d love to have a calendar for the blog – but can’t find one in the existing plug-ins on wordpress.com. As we can’t use external plug-ins, do you think it would be possible to use one from the wordpress.org downloads? The one I like is Ajax Event Calendar but to be fair any good functional calendar would do.

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  wyocec · Member · Nov 27, 2012 at 11:49 am

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  Have you tried Google’s calendar? There is a plug-in for it available here on WordPress.com. Very easy to embed and use, but it IS another outside source to maintain.

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  communityassoc · Member · Nov 29, 2012 at 10:45 am

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  Thanks very much for the suggestion. I’ve decided to use the Google calendar as it seems to work quite well. You say there is a plug-in on the wordpress.com site – where do I find it exactly?

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  wyocec · Member · Nov 30, 2012 at 4:05 am

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  Oh, sorry. Now that I’ve re-read this, I realize you won’t be able to use the plug-in I had in mind. It is not intended to be used in blogs on WordPress.com, only on self-hosted (wordpress.org) sites. For future reference, though, it’s called Google Calendar Events, and the author is Ross Hanney (and version is 0.7.2).

  For WordPress.com sites, you have a choice between using the Upcoming Events widget (with a Google Calendar as the companion), or you can embed the Google Calendar directly into a page or sidebar. The former will get you a list of events from your calendar, while the latter will actually show the calendar itself (although Agenda format is available, I think).