About this plugin
Ramassio tells residents which container to put out, and when.
It is made for town halls and local councils: one screen to describe the collections, one form to post a last-minute change, and every display updates itself — the website, the residents’ phone calendars and the e-mail reminders.
Any kind of waste
- Wheelie bins of any colour (general waste, packaging, food waste…), glass, paper, garden waste, bulky items, textiles, hazardous waste days…
- Kerbside collection (put the container out), drop-off on a date (mobile collection point), on appointment only, or a permanent site with opening hours such as a recycling centre (address, link to the opening hours, directions, “check before you go” notice).
- Add as many collection types as you need. Ready-made examples can be switched on in one click.
- Containers are drawn as scalable vector pictures in the colour you choose, so they stay sharp at any size. You can use your own photos instead.
Flexible schedules
- Every week, even weeks, odd weeks (ISO week number), every N weeks, once a month (e.g. the 2nd Tuesday), or only on listed dates.
- One or several days per week.
- Seasons (e.g. garden waste from April to November).
- Extra one-off dates.
- Areas for large towns (districts, arrondissements, villages): each collection type can have other days, other weeks or no collection in some areas, and date changes can concern one area only.
- Residents find their area by typing their postcode or street; their choice is remembered on their phone or computer.
- “Put it out the evening before” or “the same morning”, collected in the morning, afternoon or evening.
Last-minute changes
- Move, cancel or add a collection in a few clicks (public holiday, snow, strike…), with a reason shown to residents.
- Built-in French public holidays: the plugin lists the collections falling on a holiday and applies “day before / day after / cancel” in one click. Other countries can be added with a filter.
- Every change is shown at once on the website, in the subscribed calendars and in the reminders.
Everywhere residents look
- [ramassio_page] — the complete page in one block: changes, next collections, calendar, subscription buttons and e-mail form. It looks the same with every theme. [ramassio_page show="calendar"] shows only the calendar.
- [ramassio_next] — next collection of each type: date, “in 2 days”, and what to do (“Put it out on Wednesday evening — collected the next day in the morning”).
- [ramassio_calendar] — modern monthly calendar with previous / next month buttons, even and odd weeks, public holidays and changed dates.
- [ramassio_changes] — upcoming changes, ideal for the home page.
- [ramassio_ical] — subscribe from an iPhone, Android, Google or Outlook calendar. The feed updates itself: a moved collection moves in the residents’ calendars too.
- [ramassio_send_links] — residents choose iPhone, Android or computer and receive by e-mail the calendar subscription link and the home-screen link, with step-by-step instructions for their device.
- [ramassio_app_link] — a mobile page residents add to their home screen, like an app, with a proper icon: a drawn wheelie bin in your colour, the town logo, or your own image.
- [ramassio_subscribe] — e-mail reminder the day before (double opt-in, one-click unsubscribe), with the town logo.
- Links to share — an <iframe> code to embed the calendar on another website (community of communes, school, association), a direct link and the calendar feed address.
- A classic widget, and a public JSON API for phone widgets (an iPhone Scriptable widget is included in the extras folder).
Made for the people who run it
- A dashboard shows the next collection, the coming collections, the upcoming changes, the holidays to check and the number of subscribers.
- Backup and restore all the data as one JSON file, on the same or another site.
- Page caches (LiteSpeed Cache and LiteSpeed server cache, WP Rocket, W3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache, Autoptimize, Cloudflare plugin) are emptied automatically when the schedule changes.
Clean and lightweight
- All data lives in the plugin’s own database tables. Uninstalling removes everything.
- No account, no external service, no tracking, no ads.
- Translation ready (text domain ramassio ).
External services
Ramassio does not send any data to an external service by itself: no API call, no tracking, no remote file.
It only displays links that residents may choose to open:
- Google Calendar — the “Add to Google Calendar” button opens calendar.google.com with the address of your own calendar feed, so the resident can subscribe to it. Nothing is sent until the resident clicks; Google then receives the feed address. Google Terms of Service, Google Privacy Policy.
- Google Maps — for a recycling centre with an address, the “Directions” button opens google.com/maps with that address. Nothing is sent until the resident clicks. Google Terms of Service, Google Privacy Policy.