Back to school season is in full swing. From kindergarten to college, kids of all ages are brimming with potential as they gear up for a new school year. Glancing at the news, there are all sorts of articles on how to prepare your child to head back to school. From easing into preschool to…
It’s not uncommon for customers of ours to want to change the appearance or behavior of their event calendars. Our support staff is not able to help with customizations, though, and so the responsibility of writing custom code often falls squarely and solely on the shoulders of the customer. The problem is that most customers…
WordPress plugins and themes are often customizable with functions called “hooks”. There are two types of hooks: actions and filters. If you’re not familiar with actions and filters, then definitely spend some time learning the basics. The WordPress Codex has an in-depth introduction to them here, and Treehouse has a great overview here, for example.…
We’d love to share with you our favorite developer plugins to make your workflow easier and more efficient. To elaborate, “developer” plugins are WordPress plugins that are not necessarily useful to the average WordPress website owner—they’re plugins made by developers for other developers. We use and love a number of developer plugins: in development, of…
The Events Calendar and its suite of add-ons use a single function to generate content excerpts: tribe_events_get_the_excerpt(). There’s long been no way to alter the content that this function generates, but in version 4.2 of The Events Calendar, we introduced a filter to make it easy to add things to, remove things from, or otherwise…
It might sound trite, but when it comes to providing customer support, communication is key. This is especially true when dealing with angry or tense customers, where the annoyance of communication failures only magnifies their agitation. But figuring out and fixing common sources of friction in communication can be a great step in improving the…
Our next milestone is approaching fast – The Events Calendar is expected to cross the 4 million downloads threshold over the next few days. To celebrate, we’re running a special Random Refund Promotion July 26-29th. What’s a “Random Refund”? For 4 days next week (July 26th-29th), any purchase OR renewal of Events Calendar PRO will be eligible…
Introducing Event Automator: our latest innovation that allows you to connect your favorite third-party apps and tools with Zapier to help you automate your event and ticketing processes. Learn more in our blog post. Are you taking advantage of Zapier to automate your event promotion? If not, this post is definitely worth the read. Zapi-what?…
Our plugins have millions of downloads and hundreds of thousands of active users all over the world. We’re proud to have such a large and global audience, but communicating the status of updates to and fixes for our plugins can be challenging at times given the size of it. We’ve taken great advantage of the usual…
When it comes to client contracts, most of us can agree that they’re generally a pain in the butt. There’s often legal language that’s hard to decipher, clauses and attachments to comb through, and if you want one that’s rock-solid, you’ll need to hire a lawyer to create one with your business’s best interests in…
With the successful release of 4.2, you’ll find the first of many changes designed to increase the usability of our plugins for all users. While these changes aren’t dramatic, they’re an exciting introduction to the role of accessibility in our long-term development roadmap. Focus Styles on Calendar Search Fields The first adjustment is the addition…
Excerpts provide truncated previews of content with a “read more” link instead of displaying the full-length content. They’re staples of web design—especially for WordPress sites—and many page designs simply don’t work without them. So when we started hearing from customers that our handling of excerpts was not satisfactory, we knew it was a meaningful issue…
One of the most powerful tools used to connect people is a robust community events calendar. It provides a destination to exchange information about events related to local areas, shared interests, or industry topics. While plugins like the Community Events add-on make it easy for community partners to submit events to your calendar from the front-end,…
As of March 2022, Stripe is now available with our free Event Tickets plugin. Check out this blog post to learn more. If you’d like to accept WooCommerce payments with Stripe, it couldn’t be easier. Simply download the free Stripe extension from WooCommerce and start accepting payments with Stripe today. Good News for Event Tickets…
We’ve been working hard on the The Events Calendar 4.2, including updates to all of our premium add-ons. You already know about the features we’re stoked to release, but we also want to let you know that the release candidates for the updates are now available for testing. As a reminder, release candidates are different…