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=== Gigs Calendar ===
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Contributors: dancoulter
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Tags: gigs, shows, calendar, musician, artist
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Requires at least: 2.7
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Tested up to: 2.8.4
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Stable tag: 0.4.7
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Manage and display a calendar of your gigs/shows/performances.
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== Description ==
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This plugin is geared toward bands and musicians to manage and display a
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calendar of their gigs within WordPress.  It's meant to be as easy as possible
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for both the musician and the fan.  It even manages venue data complete
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with mapping and ticket links.
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== Installation ==
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Simply drop the files into a folder in your WordPress plugins folder.  Once
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you've activated the plugin, go to Manage -> Gigs Calendar in your WordPress
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admin panel.  You'll probably want to set which WordPress page you want your 
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calendar to appear on.  Once you've saved that, you are ready to get started.
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== Compatibility notes ==
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= Browser =
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This plugin's administration pages are currently only supported fully by the 
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Firefox and Safari browsers.  When I am approaching version 1.0, I plan to
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develop full support for IE7 and Opera.  If you would like to know more about
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my decision to focus on Firefox and Safari, feel free to get in touch with me.
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= WordPress =
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If you are using a WordPress version less than 2.3, you may need to create the
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database tables manually.  You can find the SQL in tables.sql. Get in touch with
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me if you need help doing that. You might also want to consider updating to the
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most recent version of WordPress.
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= MySQL =
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If you are using a MySQL version less than 4.1, filtering the gig posts from
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your normal blog entries will be disabled.  You will need to filter those based
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on the category you select in the settings page using another plugin.  I suggest
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the Advanced Category Excluder (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-category-excluder/) plugin.