Build an iCal feed from your WordPress posts (plugin)

Posted by Gary King on August 13, 2007
Categories: programming, web

I’ve created a WordPress plugin which creates an iCal feed from your blog posts. It creates a calendar which can be added to pretty much any popular website (such as Google Calendar) or application (such as Microsoft Outlook).

I built this because I wanted to see when I made my WordPress posts, in a more graphical interface. I already used Google Calendar, so I would have loved to see my posts right in my calendar.

You can do that with my plugin – no configuration necessary! Just download it from me, upload it to your server, and then activate it in your WordPress plugins page. Then, navigate to http://www.kinggary.com/?ical (basically visit your blog, and then add ?ical at the end of the URL) to see the calendar). Then add this URL as an external iCal calendar to whatever calendar application you are using. In Google Calendar, for example, go to ‘Add’ and then ‘Add by URL’, and then just add the URL to the input box and hit Enter! And it’s done!

If you want to only show posts from a specific category, then add &category= to the end of the URL, with the category’s name at the end. An example would be http://www.kinggary.com/?ical&category=web

Download the plugin