I wanted to add a widget to a wordpress web article that allowed readers to add the event to their calendars. I found the site called, “AddEvent“. Fabulous. Proving that doing one thing well is all a web service has to do.

This page records how I implemented this, and has an example event and widget.

The implementation comes in two parts, the reference to a script, which I would normally put in the HEAD section and the definition of the event which is HTML and needs to be located where you need the button/widget i.e. within the Post/Page content. I have placed the event definition into a code snip aka a custom field.

When implementing this in wordpress, the javascript reference needs to be located as near but before the </BODY> tag. In my case I needed to edit the footer.php file, which meant copying the footer.php file to the child theme in the case of this wiki and creating a child theme for ello.davelevy.info which uses the minnow theme.

N.B. This widget implementation does not offer a Facebook event since it needs a source and I have not set one up.