Troubleshooting

It’s not finding my calendar!

  1. Did you enter the [iCal:http://yoururl.filename.ics] in the HTML view of the page editor?   If, click to the html view and remove the superflous html markup that wordpress would insert if it thinks you actually want a hyperlink there.   IE: the “<a href=” etc
  2. Do you have any spaces or line breaks or any other strange characters?   Remove them, make sure it is a clean url in one line.
  3. If it still does not work, try copying the file down to your local server and point the ical spec to that local file.  There are a number of test files in the zip file that do work

It works on the test files, but not on my google calendar!

  1. Which google url are you using?  Is it definitely the .ics file?  Private or public?  Logoff google and check whether you can still access the url as another person not logged in.
  2. Try using a public google calendar like a public holiday file.

The default css looks funny

Yes well, this may be the interaction between your theme’s css and  the ical plugin.  There were many  difficulties with the css.  In order to allow for multiple ical’s in a page we can not use id’s easily.

I think I managed to get over much of that with some repetitive definitions.  I did not want the css to be cumbersome though, and did want it to inherit style as much as possible so that it would look like it belonged with the rest of your web.   In many themes, this worked quite well.

Some theme’s had not specified their css forward thinking enough, or had unintended/undesirable consequences.

In the classic theme, the two demonstrated the dangers of defining font 90% on a list item - guess what happens when you have nested list items fairly deep - the font becomes so small that it is unreadable.  This is corrected in the default css.

In the default theme, we had a weird problem where I could not get rid of all (I did some) arrow bullets - see the screenshots.  I did not test with a totally clean install, so perhaps it was something I had played with.

The sandbox theme needed some more styling to make it look a bit better, but hey that is a minimalist theme anyway.

Let me know problems you are experiencing, and I’ll look into/update when I have time.