Events Calendar Pro 6.0.0
Summary
Feature Release
The latest version of Events Calendar Pro features new recurring event save options, a new Series post type for grouping and displaying events, and a duplicate event tool. Legacy views have been fully deprecated.
As always, we recommend testing updates on a staging site first, but it should all be smooth sailing. Note that this update is a big one and you must complete an additional event migration process to take advantage of the new features. Learn more about the migration process in our Knowledgebase article.
Version: Events Calendar Pro 6.0.0 is only compatible with The Events Calendar 6.0.0 and higher.
Note: Our plugins now support only PHP version 7.3 or higher.
✨ New
New features included in this release:
- Legacy views are now fully deprecated and most of the template files and code was removed.
- New event data storage system using custom tables.
- The Series post type is now available to group and display events.
- We’ve added a brand new duplicate event tool.
- We’ve included custom tables and optimization of Cache Primers to enable reduced and stabilized number of queries on Event views.
- Inclusion of Event Series custom table
{$prefix}_tec_series_relationships. - Avoid infinite loops in some combinations of recurrence rules and dates.
- New recurring event save options for this event, this and following events, or all events.
- Recurring events now only show once in the events list table.
- The recurrence /all page is replaced by the Series page.
- The Recurring event instances setting is replaced by Condense events in Series.
- The Front-end recurring event instances toggle is replaced by Front-end Condense Events Series toggle.
ℹ️ Changes
Templates that have changed in this release:
📚 Read
New Knowledgebase articles:
- Migrating to the New Event Data System
- Recurring Events with Tickets
- Community Events with Series
- Duplicate Events
- Event Series
- Changing the Series View
- Link Directly to the Series Page from the Calendar
- How to Use the Redirection Plugin to Redirect Recurring Events
- How to Change the Series Slug
Updated Knowledgebase articles:
🗣 Translations
Updated language files and strings:
- 323 new strings added
- 321 updated
- 4 fuzzied
- 59 obsoleted
🙌 Thank you
We appreciate the wonderful beta testers who provided feedback and bug reports as we worked on this massive project:
afragen, brianhogg, squarecandy, qrahaman, hage, preshit, slimndap, sc0ttkclark, rickisteigerwald, Tony at Grapevine Live, Michael at Business Tech Ninjas, Peter at Coffee Project NY, Mark B., James K., Jerry G., Hanno S., Deanna S., Fabio R., James E., Jody J., Helen M., Nicolas L., Caleb L., drward1958, pier818kartner, areatype, myon1664, chenrezig