Wordpress Livedates Plugin

Manage upcoming events in your wordpress blog.

We have finished the version 0.1 release of our Livedates Plugin for Wordpress called ta-livedates. ta-livedates allows you to add, edit and display livedates of your favourite artists in your blog. All dates are managed via the Admin Panel. You can print out the dates in your Wordpress templates by simple functions with the well known Wordpress syntax:

	
<h2>Upcoming Shows</h2>
<?php if($ld->have_upcoming_livedates()) : ?>
  <?php while($ld->have_upcoming_livedates()) : $ld->the_livedate(); ?>
    <strong>$ld->the_artist() ?></strong>
    <?php $ld->the_date() ?>,
    <?php $ld->the_country() ?>,
    <?php $ld->the_city() ?>, 
    <?php $ld->the_location() ?>,
    <?php $ld->the_info() ?>
  <?php endwhile; ?>
<?php endif; ?>
	

All Template functions

• $ld->have_upcoming_livedates()
  livedates in the future, next livedate first
• $ld->have_todays_livedates()
  livedates of the current date, order by artist
• $ld->have_past_livedates()
  past livedates, youngest livedate first
• $ld->have_livedates()
  all livedates, oldest livedate first

Adding new livedates supports you beeing lazy: Dates are auto-completed by JavaScript.
In version 0.1 the plugin only supports the german date format d.m.Y for editing.

The plugin adds a table “ta_livedates” to your datebase when you first activate the plugin.

Download

You may download the plugin right here:

• ta-livedates-v0.4.zip
• ta-livedates-v0.2.zip (installation bug fixed)
• ta-livedates_v0.1.zip

Additional hints

Copy the whole ta-livedates folder (not just its content) to wp-content/plugins, then activate the plugin via the wordpress admin panel.

If you want to use the plugin in your sidebar you will have to define the $ld variable as global in your sidebar.php like this;

<?php global $ld; ?>

This is our first Wordpress plugin. Don’t hesitate to give us some feedback.

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