Comments on: You can haz Austin Tech Events Widget without WordPress!

By: monsur

monsur — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:50:27 +0000

Hi Dusty. Nice post! I just wanted to let you know that the url to get a GData API key was going to be changing soon. You might want to update this post with the new url:

http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/signup.html

Thanks!

By: Austin Tech Events Calendar WordPress Plugin - Dusty Reagan

Austin Tech Events Calendar WordPress Plugin - Dusty Reagan — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:21:56 +0000

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By: Dusty

Dusty — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:21:02 +0000

That’s an awesome solution Colin! One cool thing about doing it the way you’re suggesting, is it happens server side. Which is great for SEO.

On the widget you can see the event dates in the form of “Today,” “Tomorrow,” etc. Is that what you’re talking about?

By: Colin Lowenberg

Colin Lowenberg — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:43:25 +0000

Thanks! Good tutorial. Can you make it display event dates?

I just use the RSS feed. Just take the feed from the calendar page:
http://door64.com/event/2008/04/29/feed/all/all/
Take out the date:
http://door64.com/event/feed/all/all/
And add it to your blogger/whatever as a feed.