Tutorials

WordPress Tutorial - How to Post Upcoming Events

1. Go to Login page URL.

2. Enter your Username and Password and click Login button. You will be directed to the Dashboard area.

3. Click on Write tab and this will open up to the default Write > Post page.

4. Enter Title, Text and/or Picture in respective boxes per ff tutorials:
http://pinoywired.com/2007/09/09/wordpress-tutorial-how-to-post-a-blog/
http://pinoywired.com/2007/09/04/add-a-picture-in-your-post/

5. After adding Category and Tag information, please proceed to the next important step to ensure the event appears in the Upcoming Events sidebar:

From online instructions by Alex Tingle, creator of the Event Calendar plugin. An event post is a normal blog post, with one or more attached events.

a. On the ‘Write Post’ page, scroll down and you will see the ‘Event Editor’. You might need to click the little ‘+’ in its blue bar, to see the controls.

b. To start with, you will only see the column headings (Start, End and All Day) and the ‘+’ - add event button. Click ‘+’ to add a new event.

c. The event will start and end on the next full hour. To set the start date, click on the ‘…’ button, next to the start time. A popup calendar will appear.

d. Select the new start date by clicking on the calendar. Optionally you can change the time by clicking on the popup’s time and dragging. Click on the ‘X’ to dismiss the popup.

e. You can also edit the date and time in the normal way, by clicking on the numbers and changing them with the keyboard. If you edit the date manually like this, make sure that you keep to the correct format: YEAR-MONTH-DATE 24-HOURS:MINUTES

Example: An event is scheduled from 2-4pm on 14th August, 2006.
Start: 2006-08-14 14:00:00
End: 2006-08-14 16:00:00

f. When you change the ‘Start’ field, the ‘End’ field updates automatically, so that the event’s duration remains the same. If you want to change the duration, then edit the ‘End’ field, just as you did for the ‘Start’.

g. If you tick the ‘All Day’ checkbox, then the times are ignored - the event goes on through the whole day. You can make the event span over more than one day if you wish. You can also add more scheduled times for the same post. Just click the ‘+’ button to add more lines.

h. To remove an event, click on the ‘-’ button.

i. When you’ve finished editing your events, just Save the post in the normal way.

To view event posting instructions with graphics for reference, please go to http://wpcal.firetree.net/how-to-make-a-new-event/

Your new post will appear on the right sidebar of the website with a link to the post.

That’s all folks. Happy posting.