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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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WooCommerce SEO tips to increase traffic, sales, and SERP ranking

WooCommerce SEO (search engine optimization) plays a huge role in how your e-commerce store appears in search results. Why put effort into it? Because even a little bit of extra WooCommerce SEO strategy can help your store rank higher (hello first page of Google!), reach more people, and close more sales. WooCommerce + SEO In…

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WooCommerce extensions

Our latest episode in the new Support Team webinar series is here! Using WooCommerce extensions to sell tickets on your site? They can help you bundle tickets with other products or set up dynamic pricing! Join us for a demo of the additional features these extensions can provide and some tips for integrating them into…

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Securing your site against potential hackers is super important these days. Although the rewards of investing in site security are not always obvious—if you do things right, you won’t see any visible effects because you won’t get hacked and you won’t have to spend dozens or hundreds of hours repairing the impacts of identity theft,…

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Page speed has a major effect on search ranking, site abandonment, and sales conversion. Today’s web users have zero patience for sites that are slow to load—according to a survey by Akamai and SOASTA, even a 100-millisecond delay (0.1 seconds) can result in a 7% reduction in conversions. The importance of making sure your website…

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WordCamp Boston 2018

In the upcoming WordPress 5.0 release, the post editor will be redesigned and rebuilt from the ground up. This new editor is called the block editor (a.k.a. Gutenberg), and it’s been no small task to ensure The Events Calendar and our other plugins are ready for it. While we’ve written about some of the challenges…

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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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Broken links happen when content on your site is relocated or when URLs are changed without setting up a redirect. This leaves a trail of links that go to 404 error pages that can negatively impact your site’s search engine rankings and annoy users. The good news is that fixing—and preventing—broken links is simple and…

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In a world where 53% of mobile visitors will abandon a site if it takes more than three seconds to load, you can’t get by with a site that’s slow, challenging to navigate, or full of content that’s hard to read. The more user-friendly your site is, the more your website will stand out from…

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