Create a schedule for a semester that will display the office hours and classes of a faculty member to visitors of a site in a weekly format.
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Key Features
- Unlimited schedules
- Unlimited office hour blocks within a schedule
- Unlimited classes within a schedule
- Each office hours block/class can be scheduled on different days of the week
- Each office hours block/class can be displayed with a different background color
- Support for online classes which are not scheduled for a particular day of the week
- Support for default schedule values via Settings
- Shortcode support to include a specific schedule in any page or post
- Shortcode support to include the current schedule in any page or post
- Control over what in the schedule is displayed
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Installing "Faculty Weekly Schedule" can be done by using one the following methods:
This section describes how to install the plugin. In general, there are 3 ways to i
1. Via WordPress dashboard
- Click on 'Add New' in the plugins dashboard
- Search for 'Faculty Weekly Schedule'
- Click 'Install Now' button
- Activate the plugin from the same page or from the Plugins dashboard
2. Via uploading the plugin to WordPress dashboard
- Download the plugin to your computer from (https://wordpress.org/plugins/faculty-weekly-schedule/)
- Click on 'Add New' in the plugins dashboard
- Click on 'Upload Plugin' button
- Select the zip file of the plugin that you have downloaded to your computer before
- Click 'Install Now'
- Activate the plugin from the Plugins dashboard
3. Via FTP
- Download the plugin to your computer from (https://wordpress.org/plugins/faculty-weekly-schedule/)
- Unzip the zip file, which will extract the 'faculty-weekly-schedule' directory
- Upload the 'faculty-weekly-schedule' directory (included inside the extracted folder) to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory in your web space
- Activate the plugin from the Plugins dashboard
For Multisite installation
- Log in to your primary site and go to "My Sites" » "Network Admin" » "Plugins"
- Install the plugin following one of the above ways
- Network activate the plugin
Where the plugin features can be accessed from?
- The plugin features can be accessed via the "Weekly Schedules" admin menu
Getting Started
- To specify default values for a new schedule:
- Hover over 'Weekly Schedules' in the WordPress admin sidebar menu and then click 'Settings'
- Review and change settings on each tab as desired
- Save the changes made before selecting the next tab
- See the Settings tab of the Help option in the Weekly Schedules admin menu for more information
- To create a new schedule:
- Hover over 'Weekly Schedules' in the WordPress admin sidebar menu and then click 'Add new Schedule'
- Fill out the details about the schedule
- Once desired information has been filled in, click the Publish button.
- See the Schedule tab of the Help option in the Weekly Schedules admin menu for more information
- To show a specific schedule to site visitors:
- Hover over 'Weekly Schedules' in the WordPress admin sidebar menu and then click 'Weekly Schedules'
- For the schedule that is to be shown, copy the shortcode shown in the schedules list
- Hover over 'Pages' in the WordPress admin sidebar menu and then click 'Add new'
- Type in a title for your schedule
- If using the Block Editor, add a shortcode block and paste in the copied shortcode from the schedules list
- If using the Classic Editor, paste in the copied shortcode from the schedules list
- Add any other desired information to your schedule and then click the Publish button
- Please note that it's usually best to display your schedule on a page that uses a wide (1-4 days per week) or full-width (5-7 days per week) page template (i.e. no sidebar)
- See the Shortcodes tab of the Help option in the Weekly Schedules admin menu for more information
- To show the current schedule to site visitors:
- Hover over 'Pages' in the WordPress admin sidebar menu and then click 'Add new'
- Type in a title for your current schedule
- If using the Block Editor, add a shortcode block and enter [fws-schedule include="now"] as the shortcode
- If using the Classic Editor, enter [fws-schedule include="now"]
- Add any other desired information to your schedule and then click the Publish button
- Please note that it's usually best to display your current schedule on a page that uses a wide (1-4 days per week) or full-width (5-7 days per week) page template (i.e. no sidebar)
- See the Shortcodes tab of the Help option in the Weekly Schedules admin menu for more information