Thunderbird calendar sync with Events Manager

Hi,

You can try to use the ical/calendar placeholders mentioned on this documentation – https://wp-events-plugin.com/documentation/placeholders/

Or subscribe to your events ical feeds using https://Your-Domain.com/events/events.ics

Angelo_nwl
You are very kind. Thank you for trying to help.

As usual I can not even get past the first two paragraph’s without becoming totaly lost. I have two very conflicting issues. First is that I do not understand many of the terms used in most of the help stuff and second I do not understand what the end point of much of this is. For example. The first link you gave me takes me to a page that has the following first two paragraphs.

Events Manager has a templating syntax that lets you customise events information in the events list and pages. You can use this syntax both in the Events Manager Settings page and in the template tags or shortcodes that you might insert in your theme templates or pages/posts. The syntax is quite simple, just write your html code in the usual way, then you can add a number of placeholders corresponding to the information you want to show.

See the bottom of this page for a few examples.
Event Related Placeholders

When you’d like to show information pertaining to events, you can choose from the following. In all cases, you should also be able to call location related placeholders.

Here are the list of terms I do not understand.

templating syntax
insert in your theme templates or pages/posts.
write your html code
can add a number of placeholders
be able to call location related placeholders.

Then my other issue is, What are we trying to do with this information?
It says (Show information pertaing to events) Show where? What information? I do not know how to write code so this will not help me much.

I know nothing. I am a cut amd paste hacker. I look at what someone has done that I like and steal the code and play with it till it works. I use the program FrontPage to write code for me. I do not believe that the above information will be helpful for what I need. My calendars online feed down to the calendar on my Thunderbird email application just fine. What I was wondering is if I could post stuff on my desktop calendar and have it automatically upload to the calendars online without me haveing to do anything extra except post an event on the calendar on my desktop. I have about 6 online calendars on my desktop. Each calendar has its own color.

Thank you for trying to help me.
Jeff

To answer your first post the ICS you will have used to set the Thunderbird Calendar up is one way from your site to the client (eg Thunderbird). Otherwise anyone with the calendar link would be able to add events. This is as I understand it.

Thunderbird allows you to add an event if in the properties you have the chackboxes that allow it. BUT you will get an error back about updating the calendar.

Hi Will,

Thank you. I am starting to realize that my client (Thunderbird) can not upload to my calendars on the web. I wish there was a way but it looks like that ability has not been built into the email client and I do not know how to set something like that up. So for now it looks like I will just have to add stuff to the online calendars and let them (feed down) to the calendar inside Thunderbird.

Thank you!
Jeff

Off EM topic…

It has nothing to do with Thunderbird and everything to do with the Calendar it is subscribed too. I can add calendar entries to my Google calendar on Thunderbird and it’ll update it and be shown on other devices.

The EM ics calendar your Thunderbird is subscribed to is read only. If it wasn’t any one with the url that subscribed to it could edit or delete your events.