What’s New

We’re constantly working to improve The Events Calendar. Check out what’s new and get the most from your online WordPress calendar.

If you’re using Community Events and Community Tickets to manage your calendar’s user-submitted events, you already know that these plugins provide a one-two punch for your events calendar. Together, these tools allow users to seamlessly create events and sell tickets for their events, all without requiring access to your WordPress dashboard. Get the Bundle Today,…

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We’ve been busy bees since we launched Promoter! In case you’re catching up, Promoter features a communication solution for events and the people who run them (hey, that’s you!). With Promoter, you can connect with your community via email through every stage of your event, bolster event attendance, and manage notifications more efficiently than ever.…

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Promoter is a new communication solution for events and the people who run them (hey, that’s you!). With Promoter, you can connect with your community via email through every stage of your event, bolster event attendance, and manage notifications more efficiently than ever. With more than 10 years of experience building event management solutions for WordPress…

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New post status options for importing events from Eventbrite to WordPress

On Thursday, we released a new version of Eventbrite Tickets that includes a new default post status for imported events. The previous WordPress post statuses available when running Eventbrite imports were Published, Draft, or Pending Review. Going forward, Draft, Pending Review, and the new (do not override) statuses will be available in your Import Settings. Now about the Published setting–we’ll get to that…

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You can now add and update your ticket and RSVPs using the Gutenberg Block Editor. We’ll show you how to create Gutenberg ticket and RSVP blocks with your event tickets. Below you’ll find screenshots of the design work for our new blocks. You can take ‘em for a spin on your own site by downloading…

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100% complete translations for top five languages

The Events Calendar comes standard in English, but did you know that you can translate that calendar into any language? To better serve our international users, we’ve dedicated resources to fully translate the top 5 language files for Events Calendar PRO, Event Tickets Plus, and Tribe Common. In many ways, the Internet has made our…

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TL;DR – Facebook added even more restrictions to their API and it sucks for everyone. Back in April, Facebook made abrupt, significant changes to their API that effectively halted the ability for services like Event Aggregator to import events from Facebook into other websites. Despite getting hit with this major surprise, Facebook gave developers hope…

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We have decided to change our minimum required PHP version from 5.2 to 5.6. This may sound like a big change for some, but don’t worry! We’ve got you covered, and can take you through the steps on how to make this change and quickly explain why this change is beneficial for all of us.…

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Eventbrite Tickets

The Eventbrite Tickets plugin you know and love just got a major update that includes a number of significant new features. Before we jump into all the features we added in version 4.5, there’s one super important thing to note: Eventbrite.com imports have moved from the old Legacy Imports section to the regular Imports section…

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Free pdf ticket extension

If your event attendees tend to purchase tickets in groups, adding the functionality to easily share individual tickets will greatly improve the customer experience of registering for your events. Our free PDF Tickets Extension allows you to add shareable, printable PDF tickets to the confirmation emails your guests receive when they register for your event.…

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Our approach to GDPR

The European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect on May 25th, 2018. With WordPress powering over 30% of the web globally, this new regulation has prompted many ongoing conversations within the WordPress community. As WordPress plugin authors and users ourselves, we’ve actively engaged in our own discovery and planning for GDPR.…

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