06-22-2011, 06:23 AM
We use a Google Calendar, which is embedded in our WordPress site. (Now that it's summer, there's nothing on the calendar until I put in the next year's stuff, but you can check it out at Poinsettia Elementary School in Ventura CA. ) You can "Look for earlier events" on the calendar widget, or visit the calendar page at http://www.poinsettiapto.org/?page_id=17 . We use Stout Google Calendar to customize how it appears in the sidebar.
It's not an ideal way to manage a calendar and content, since it requires two different logins. But gCal works well, and we use Google Docs to manage all our pdfs anyways.
Only a handful of people can edit the official calendar, by design. But it's easy for readers to add events to their own gCal, or download the ics file, then import it into iCal or Entourage, and sync it to their smartphone. When you consider how many hours would otherwise be spent by parents, each manually adding every single holiday and early dismissal and furlough day to their calendars, it's probably one of the best features of our website.
I use the User Role Editor plugin to tweak the capabilities of our contributors. For example, I allow Authors to edit their own Published Pages, and then I named the PTO secretary as the Owner of the PTO Minutes & Agendas page. She can now edit that page directly -- but she can't edit any other page.
Unfortunately, there are some serious limitations to any CMS. And it's hard to know exactly what limits you'll bump up against until you actually put together a site, and then bang your head against the desk trying to figure out how to make it do what you want.
It's not an ideal way to manage a calendar and content, since it requires two different logins. But gCal works well, and we use Google Docs to manage all our pdfs anyways.
Only a handful of people can edit the official calendar, by design. But it's easy for readers to add events to their own gCal, or download the ics file, then import it into iCal or Entourage, and sync it to their smartphone. When you consider how many hours would otherwise be spent by parents, each manually adding every single holiday and early dismissal and furlough day to their calendars, it's probably one of the best features of our website.
I use the User Role Editor plugin to tweak the capabilities of our contributors. For example, I allow Authors to edit their own Published Pages, and then I named the PTO secretary as the Owner of the PTO Minutes & Agendas page. She can now edit that page directly -- but she can't edit any other page.
Unfortunately, there are some serious limitations to any CMS. And it's hard to know exactly what limits you'll bump up against until you actually put together a site, and then bang your head against the desk trying to figure out how to make it do what you want.
Seems like Joomla was stuck at 1.5 for a LONG time.