Following the outlined idea by @shawfactor would also fix #704, because the 🐛 mentioned is coming from the used data-uri, too.

GatherPress should probably replace the existing (and default) /feed/ endpoints with new /ical/ endpoints for:

• gatherpress_events post type
• gatherpress_venues post type
• gatherpress_topics taxonomy

While this seems identical, the endpoints will have slightly different purposes per data type.

• The gatherpress_events ical allows to subscribe to all events of that site and needs to be added on the post type level.
• The gatherpress_venues ical allows to all events of a particular venue. Therefore it must be added on the post level.
• The gatherpress_topics ical returns all events related to one particular topic term. The endpoint needs to be added to the term level.

• https://developer.wordpress.org/apis/rewrite/
• https://make.wordpress.org/plugins/2012/06/07/rewrite-endpoints-api/
• https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/add_rewrite_endpoint/
• https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/add_feed/

Replace or add?

Originally I meant replace, but it may make sense to rethink this.

I’d suggest the best approach is to add a custom feed (in iCal format)

Yes, absolutely.

Eg events would have

https://mysite.com/events/ (archive)
https://mysite.com/events/feed/ (rss feed)
https://mysite.com/events/feed/atom/ (atom feed)
https://mysite.com/events/feed/rdf/ (rdf feed)

Then adding
https://mysite.com/events/feed/ical/ (iCal feed)

RSS, atom, and rdf come built in with Wordpress and I don’t see the need to

get rid of them.

But using the default feeds functionality as is, would require at least some adjustments to the rendered feeds, as it would not be that helpful to have events ordered by their publication date for example.

Feeds also play nice with taxonomies so being able to subscribe to just

events based on a single topic would be very beneficial

Agree. That’s what I meant with adding iCal support to the topics taxonomy.

I’ve actually written a plugin that does this as I wanted this

functionality on my own sites btw

Cool!
Feel free to share your work with us to help moving GatherPress forward, otherwise we would need to implement this on our own.

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• ?? How is this related to No download of iCal or outlook files in Firefox on iPadOs 17.5.1 #704?
• ?? Has anyone submitted any code to address this at all?

Hi @carstingaxion checking on where this stands with you -- and whether we can pin it for 0.32?

Hi @carstingaxion checking once more on the status and plausibility of marking this into 0.32?

Hello @MervinHernandez, I tend to say yes, because 75% are already merged and the last missing piece is awaiting review.

Please take a look at #955 and add your review to move this forward.