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There are quite a few settings that can be set, and I will try to go over all of them.
You can find the settings in the Events Menu on the left hand side under the Word Press admin menus.
Click on the settings link to get to the plugin settings.
There are 3 main sections to the Settings Page.
I will be going over the Main section on this page, then link to the additional section tutorials as I write them.
Word Press Url
In version 1.7.5b I added this setting to try to fix any issues with the plugin not linking correctly to the Event Calendar Page. The plugin should pull the correct url, but if it does not you can edit it here.
Mailing Options
The next setting is for the mailing options for notifying the members of your site about events if you choose to have RSVP’s or general notifications. (More about that in posting/adding events) Sending the notifications is currently experimental, and as I have not received any feedback about it, I’m not really sure if it is working 100% as intended.
The settings are: Send [100] emails per [3600] seconds.
Basically, ISP’s will blacklist your website from you being able to send emails to their clients if you send too many emails per hour/day depending on the spam rules for the various ISP’s. So these settings will make sure that only X amount of emails get sent N seconds. ** Note: Unless you set up a Cron Job to load one of your pages every N amount of seconds, the emails will only get sent if someone is visiting your site. So if you post the event with notifications, then you or no one else visits your site for 5 hours, then the X amount of emails will send then, not during the 5 hours no one was there. If this confuses anyone, let me know and I’ll try to be more clear.**
Categories
The plugin uses the categories from your Word Press post categories. In this setting you need to check mark which parent categories you will be filing events under. The children and grandchildren will automatically be selectable when adding an event, but nothing below grand children. (Example: “Events>Dancing>Ballroom” will be selectable. “Events>Dancing>Ballroom>Waltz” will not be selectable.) Most people create a category called “Events” that they put all of their events under. But I’ve seen quite a few child categories as well. These categories will also be used to filter events and browse events on the Event Calendar page.
Internationalization Settings
This is my attempt at making the plugin more friendly to other countries besides the US. I’m not sure if it’s great, but until I hear back from people, I guess it will do.
The first option is US/International. Select the radio button for whichever display you would like to use. If you choose U.S. then United States will be your default country for all of the events you post. If you choose International then you get to add whatever countries and provinces you want to add in comma separated strings.
The second option is Auto Format Phone#. There is a script that will auto format phone numbers to (111) 222-3333 as you enter the number into the Add/Edit Event forms. However, someone informed me that a lot of countries outside of the U.S. do not format their numbers that way, so you can disable the auto format feature.
Third and Fourth options are for adding Provinces and Countries to the drop down options when adding/editing events. In each field, enter them as comma separated strings. (Example: United Kingdom, France, China, Canada, Italy…. England, Paris, Beijing, Saskatchewan, Rome)
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