Upcoming Meetings
as of version 1.3.3
What is Upcoming Meetings & Why Should We Use It?
Upcoming Meetings BMLT is a plugin that displays the next ‘N’ number of meetings from the current time on your page or in a widget using the upcoming_meetings shortcode.
- Displays upcoming meetings so that the top number of meetings in that day are displayed.
- Uses the BMLT root server you connect to.
- Uses shortcode to display.
- Eliminates the task of manually relisting the cities and towns if they change.
How do we get it?
The Upcoming Meetings plugin can be downloaded from the following link:
The above link directs to a webpage that also includes installation instructions and a change log detailing updates applied to the plugin over time. Or search upcoming Meetings BMLT in the keyword Search on your plugins screen in WordPress.
Installation
- Download and install the plugin from WordPress dashboard. You can also upload the entire upcoming-meetings-bmlt Plugin folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
- Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress
- Add [upcoming_meetings] shortcode to your WordPress page/post.
- Assign root_server and services attributes.
- Can be customized with css.
Usage/Examples
A minimum of root_server and services attribute are required, which would return all towns for that service body separated by a comma.
A minimum of root_server, services and timezone attributes are required, which would return the next 5 meetings in simple view with a 15minute grace period.
Ex. [upcoming_meetings root_server=”https://www.domain.org/main_server” services=”50″ timezone=”America/New_York”]
Recursive
To recurse service bodies add recursive=”1″
Ex. [upcoming_meetings root_server=”https://www.domain.org/main_server” services=”50″ timezone=”America/New_York” recursive=”1″]
Services
To add multiple service bodies, you can separate by a comma.
Ex. [upcoming_meetings root_server=”https://www.domain.org/main_server” services=”50,37,26″ timezone=”America/New_York”]
Grace_period
To add a grace period to meeting lookup add grace_period=”15″ this would add a 15 minute grace period.
Ex. [upcoming_meetings root_server=”https://www.domain.org/main_server” services=”50″ timezone=”America/New_York” grace_period=”15″]
Num_results
To limit the number of results add num_results=”5″ this would limit results to 5.
Ex. [upcoming_meetings root_server=”https://www.domain.org/main_server” services=”50″ timezone=”America/New_York” state=”1″ num_results=”5″]
Display_type
To change the display type add display_type=”table” there are three different types **simple**, **table**, **block**
Ex. [upcoming_meetings root_server=”https://www.domain.org/main_server” timezone=”America/New_York” display_type=”table”]
Timezone
This is required and should be set to what timezones your meetings are in, We can not rely on servers time zone. add timezone=”America/New_York” you can set this in the admin setting or short code. A complete list of timezones can be found here http://php.net/manual/en/timezones.php
Ex. [upcoming_meetings root_server=”https://www.domain.org/main_server” timezone=”America/New_York”]
Location_text
To display the location nam,e using the simple display add location_text=”1″
Ex. [upcoming_meetings root_server=”https://www.domain.org/main_server” services=”50″ timezone=”America/New_York” location_text=”1″]
