UMich Events

Wordpress widget to get and display events from http://events.umich.edu.

Using default options will be slow when requesting data from events.umich.edu. It is highly recommended to use at least one filtering option (featured, ongoing, tags, types, groups, locations) to increase the events request speed.

Features

Widget

• Unstyled so you can make it your own as easy as possible
• Display event image, caches local resized copy for optimal performance, cached for 7 days
• Caches feed for 5 minutes to improve performance
• Ability to specify Tags, Groups, & Locations to display events for
• Customize event template in your theme
  • THEME/umich-events/widget.tpl
  • THEME/umich-events/event-widget.tpl

Shortcode

[umichevents showimage="0" imagesize="full" featured="0" ongoing="0" tags="" types="" groups="" locations="" morelink="0" morelinktext="See all events" limit="25"]

• Override templates in your theme
  • THEME/umich-events/shortcode.tpl (list of events, loads single event template)
  • THEME/umich-events/event-shortcode.tpl (single event)

Shortcode options

Option	Values	Default
showimage	1, 0	0
imagesize	string	full
featured	1, 0	0
ongoing	1, 0	0
tags	string list	null
types	num list	null
groups	num list	null
locations	num list	null
wraptpl	string	shortcode
eventtpl	string	event-shortcode
morelink	1, 0	0
morelinktext	string	See all events
limit	number	25
lists are comma seperated

Template variables

• $events
  • this contains the event JSON object. See JSON Object Description on http://events.umich.edu/feeds/

To Do

• Admin interface for cache timeouts
  • Feed Timeout (currently 5 min), minimum 1 minute
  • Image Timeout (currently 7 days), minimum 1 day
  • Meta Timeout (currently 7 days), minimum 1 day
• Multisite support
  • Network admin cache management
  • Network admin cache storage (single or per site)