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It seems like it was just yesterday that we were celebrating 2 million downloads of The Events Calendar on WordPress.org. In just 6 short months, we’re already closing in on our next milestone – 3 MILLION downloads! Internally, our team has already started placing guesses on when we’ll hit the big 3 million download mark.…
We often get asked for a coupon code or discount promo from users that want to buy a whole cart full of our plugins at once. Instead of trying to manage individual coupon codes, we found another way to hook you up with some sweet discounts for Events Calendar PRO and our other premium plugins. Events…
Last month our products leadership team gathered for their annual retreat. Supporting and maintaining The Events Calendar and our related suite of premium WordPress plugins is a tall order, so while the rest of us kept things running smoothly for the day-to-day, the partners behind Modern Tribe met with Zach, Neill, Matt, Geoff, and Rob to…
Here, you’ll learn all about how you can easily collect revenue with Community Tickets. Adding a new revenue model to your WordPress site doesn’t have to be difficult, especially if you’re already using our Community Tickets plugin. Besides giving you the ability to sell tickets online through your community calendar, Community Tickets enables you to…
In July 2015, we announced that we were moving all our translations to GlotPress– a big step towards improving our localization and empowering our international users. Last month, we followed the WordPress community’s lead and moved the translations for our free plugin, The Events Calendar, to translate.wordpress.org. We realize that two moves in the span of a few months…
The upcoming 4.0 release of The Events Calendar will introduce a bevy of changes. One such change is quite substantial: the splitting of our ticket-related features into a new and free, separate plugin altogether, called Event Tickets. Other changes might not seem as substantial, but still have us beaming with excitement at the thought of…
The major 4.0 release of The Events Calendar is coming soon, and we’re looking for readers like you to sign up and help us test the Beta version! There are too many awesome changes coming in the 4.0 release to list them all here. Some are still top-secret at this time — but hey, if you’re…
The release of The Events Calendar 4.0 is on the horizon, and we’ve got some juicy details to leak. What’s Our Timeline? We’re targeting a mid-November release for version 4.0. As with any major release, we’ve got quite a bit of testing and QA ahead of us before we can call it ready to ship,…
We recently finished our first round of beta testing for our newest product, Community Tickets – thanks to all the participants who tested the plugin and supplied us with feedback! We’ll be launching a second round of beta testing on September 23rd, and are hoping for even more testers and feedback this time around. Sign…
Our flagship product, The Events Calendar, has officially reached 2 million downloads! When we first added The Events Calendar to the WordPress.org repo 6 years ago, we knew we were onto something big. Within the first few months, our plugin had already been downloaded 25,000 times. The demand for events calendar functionality within WordPress sites…
At Modern Tribe we believe in code quality and strive hard to follow coding best practices wherever we can. Of course, this is easily said but can be a tricky goal to attain in practice. Today, our suite of event plugins is 10 strong and counting, containing some 35k lines[1] of PHP code–not to mention…
According to our 2015 survey, over 10% of The Events Calendar users run a website in a language besides English. We’ve always tried to make our products useful and accessible for international users, and we recently made an exciting new change to support that goal. All of our language files are now managed with GlotPress, making…
Events Calendar Pro 3.10 will ship with a refactored Week view. This refactor was done so that Week view would be easier to understand under the hood, easier to customize, and more extensible. We’ve also added a couple new features. Why We Did This You may be wondering why we did this. Here is a…
Last week I had the pleasure of attending the Write the Docs conference in Portland, Oregon. This unique event gathers together people who are passionate about documentation for two days of speakers, discussions, and learning. I’d heard great things about Write the Docs and was excited to attend and soak up some knowledge. I’m lucky…
Support isn’t the only role we’re looking to fill at Modern Tribe: our Quality team is also growing. We work across a variety of projects from small plugins to huge multisite networks, and hope to work with someone who has a keen attention to detail and finds nothing greater in life than proposing meaningful solutions…