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…
“Gutenberg” is the code name for the new block editor coming in WordPress 5.0, a major update that will fundamentally change the way content is created in WordPress. You’ll no longer put text and images into a wp-admin form and hope it looks good on the front end; you’ll instead build content visually in the…
WooCommerce is one of the most popular e-commerce platforms in the world. And you can add even more oomph to your site by enhancing it with extensions and add-ons. Out of more than 290 official extensions in their library, we’ve narrowed down the top four to help event organizers boost ticket sales. Name Your Price…
One of the biggest concerns about Gutenberg is how its arrival will affect WordPress sites’ preexisting content. Watching the Gutenberg team think through this problem and implement robust backwards compatibility has been both interesting and comforting. As we thought about our 600,000+ users of The Events Calendar, and what the process of transitioning to Gutenberg…
Episode 2 in the new Support Team webinar series is here! Need to translate your events into another language? In this webinar, we help you navigate the translation files and walk through adding or updating a translation. We also discuss integrating with popular third-party translation plugins and offer basic troubleshooting tips to help you get…
Access to the internet is a basic human right. With that in mind, we’ll show you how to make your site more accessible with our favorite tips to improve usability for all of your visitors, regardless of ability or disability. “Accessibility” is the term used to describe this project of making websites more inclusive—a big project,…
The first in a series of webinars by The Events Calendar support team to help our users get the most out of our plugins, this webinar focuses on the popular topic of making customizations to event views, using template overrides. We’ve done our best to set things up to be highly customizable. In addition to…
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.…
Deleting old events can be a cumbersome process, especially for online calendars that host hundreds or thousands of events. But it shouldn’t be, so that’s why we added new admin settings to make your life a whole lot easier. Why Delete Old Events? Although The Events Calendar is designed to handle both very high traffic…
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…
Going Gutenberg is an ongoing series about our process of integrating our products with the WordPress block editor. View all chapters in the series here, and be sure to follow us on Facebook or Twitter to never miss an update. In Going Gutenberg: Chapter IV we talked about thinking of blocks as having distinct “preview”…
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.…
Short on time? Click down to the Recap of this post for the essential bullet points of this important announcement. As you may know, Google Maps no longer supports keyless access to their maps. Users will need to have a valid API key and enter their credit card information for all projects. With this change…
Continuing education is an important part of any professional’s career. For WordPress developers and designers who often work solo, conferences also provide the rare opportunity to network and possibly collaborate with other professionals in the field. Conferences also provide a much-needed push to step away from the screen, and from the development and design challenges…
If you’re hosting a full calendar of events, your time is best spent preparing for said events, not fooling around with your website. With that being said, we’d love to show you our favorite calendar automation tools to save you time on your WordPress site. We built The Events Calendar as a free resource so…